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The 46th Kirkpatrick Award winner
C
hemical Engineering is pleased to announce that the winner
of the 46th Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Achievement
Award is Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark), for its
hydrotreating catalyst TK-6001 HySwell. We congratulate
Haldor Topsoe for this winning achievement.
Halsor Topsoe's TK-6001 HySwell is an alumina-supported NiMo
hydrotreating catalyst. NiMo catalysts are in demand for ultra-lowsulfur
diesel and hydrocracker pretreatment. Until now, unsupported
catalysts have been the only type that could meet the high activity
needed for these applications. Topsoe has developed catalyst preparation
techniques to produce a stable, supported catalyst that can be
regenerated. More about this winning technology will be included in
Chemical Engineering's January 2022 issue.
We also congratulate the four honoree finalists for the 2021 Kirkpatrick
Award: BQE Water; Dow Industrial Intermediates & Infrastructure;
Dow Deutschland; and Sapphire Technologies on their innovative
technologies, which were outlined on this page in our July issue.
The award
The 2021 Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering
Achievement Award recognizes
and honors a highly noteworthy
chemical-engineering technology commercialized
in 2019 or 2020. The award
is given once every two years and was
initiated in 1933, when Chemical Engineering
was known as Chemical and
Metallurgical Engineering. Formerly
known as the Award for Chemical Engineering
Achievement, it was renamed
the Kirkpatrick Award in 1959 in honor of Sidney Kirkpatrick, who
served as the editorial director of Chemical Engineering and Chemical
Week (1950-1959). Kirkpatrick was also a former president of the
American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and of the American
Electrochemical Society.
Haldor Topsoe joins a long list of winning achievements that include:
LanzaTech for Emissions-to-Ethanol Fermentation Technology (2019);
CB&I and Albemarle Corp. for the AlkyClean process (2017); Dow
Performance Plastics for Intune Olefin Block Copolymers (2015); and
Genomatica for its process to produce bio-based butanediol (2013).
The full list of past winners can be found at www.chemengonline.
com/kirkpatrick-award.
The selection process
The winner of the award is selected through a process whereby current
chairs of chemical engineering departments at U.S. and E.U. universities
vote to select finalists from all of the qualified entries, and
then a smaller group of professors select the final winner. We thank
this year's judges in that final selection process for taking the time to
carefully review the finalists' submissions and contributing to honoring
their achievements: Jean-Claude Charpentier, Université de Lorraine
École Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques, France;
Abhaya K. Datye, University of New Mexico; Mario Richard Eden, Auburn
University, Alabama; Mark Swihart, University at Buffalo, New
York; Thomas Turek, TU Clausthal, Germany; and Michael S. Wong,
Rice University, Texas.
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