Process Commercialization: The 2021 Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Achievement Award

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 Sapphire…