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PasT winners of The CE Personal achievemenT award
affiliation(s) of winners
Monsanto Co.
Ethyl Corp.
Badger Co.
Texaco Inc.
Dupont
Union Carbide Corp.
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
The Lummus Co.
Dow Chemical Co.
Allied Gulf Nuclear Services
DCA Food Industries Inc.
Alza Corp.
Bohemia Inc.
Union Carbide Corp.
Garrett Energy R&D Inc.
basis of award / area of expertise
Fluid separations technology
Synthetic straight-chain alcohols
Fluidized-bed reactor design
Stiff boron filament
Process control
Wastewater treatment
Food processing
Petrochemical technology
Membrane technology
Nuclear fuel processing
Food production
Pharmaceutical engineering
Wood byproducts processing
Solid waste processing
Flash pyrollysis of coal
Air Products and Chemicals Inc. Natural gas liquefaction
Peabody Holmes Ltd.
CE Lummus Co.
Institute of Gas Technology
Occidental Research Corp.
Shell Development Co.
CE Lummus
Ralph Parson Co.
Union Carbide Corp.
Stauffer Co.
F.A. Zenz, Inc.
Union Carbide Corp.
National Chemistry Laboratory
(India)
Consultant
Oklahoma State University
Mass transfer effects
Process commercialization (various projects)
Petroleum refining
Nuclear chemistry
Technology transfer and licensing
Fluid-particle dynamics
Exxon Research and Engineering Co. Hydrocracking, fluid-catalytic cracking,
catalyst technology
Environmental stewardship
Reaction engineering
Wood-chemical process development
Gas and liquid desulfurization
Mobil Research & Development Corp. Zeolite catalysts
Union Carbide Corp.
Consultant
Jacobs Engineering Group
Linnhoff March Ltd.
Setpoint Inc.
International Nickel Co.
University of Houston
Monsanto Co.
Praxair
Praxair
Aspen Tech
Fluor Corp.
--Dow
Chemical Co.
See Sen Chemical Bhd
Separations technology and chemical engineering
education
Chemical plant safety
Managerial and technical accomplishments
" Pinch " process technology
Process control and
information-systems planning
Pyrometallurgy
Computer-aided design
University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Chemical engineering education
and reaction engineering
Polymer processing
Distillation and heat-transfer technologies
Crystal formation and growth, flame coating,
waste-to-fuel, aluminum refining
Process modeling and simulation
Distillation and absorption troubleshooting
--Kinetic
modeling of catalyst systems
Plant improvement and efficiency
manufacture potassium hydroxide or
sodium hydroxide (caustic soda). Also,
the process does not involve the production
or combustion of chlorine gas
(CE, August 2009, p.14; www.che.com/
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generates millions of dollars in annual
revenues, Mani used his considerable
technical know-how, an innovative design
and entrepreneurial spirit along
with a raft of more than 40 process and
equipment patents that Mani himself
was instrumental in establishing.
It is the first innovative and viable alternative
to KOH production since the
development of chlor-alkali, more than
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