Process Commercialization: The 2021 Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Achievement Award
By Gerald Ondrey |
To honor the efforts of those chemical engineers and their companies that have successfully commercialized a new process for the first time, Chemical Engineering magazine has been be-stowing its Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Achievement Award since 1933.
The aim of the Award is to recognize and honor the most noteworthy chemical-engineering technology commercialized anywhere in the world during the two years prior to a given award year. The results for the 2021 Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Achievement Award are as follows:
Winning Award
Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com), for its hydrotreating catalyst TK-6001 HySwell (Figure 1)
FIGURE 1. Shown here is the winning team from Haldor Topsoe: Anders Bo Jensen, product line director; Lars Pilsgaard Hansen, principal scientist; Per Zeuthen, senior director; Magnus Magnussen, principal scientist; Frank Bartnik Johansson, R&D director[/caption]
Honor Awards
BQE Water (Vancouver, BC, Canada; www.bqewater.com): Selen-IX Technology
Dow Deutschland Anlagengesellschaft mbH (Walsrode, Germany; www.dow.com): Walocel Cellulose-Ether Product
Dow Industrial Intermediates & Infrastructure (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com): Syntegra Solvent-Free PU Dispersion
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