NEW YORK - (Business Wire) Chemical Engineering today announced this year’s finalists and the winner of the 2009 Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Achievement Award, a biennial prize that the magazine has bestowed continuously since the early 1930s. The award recognizes the most noteworthy chemical engineering technology commercialized anywhere in the world during 2007 or 2008. Chemical Engineering presented the top prize to Lucite International UK Ltd. (Wilton, U.K.) for its Alpha process for making methyl methacrylate. Honor awards were also presented to: The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.) and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany), for a jointly developed process for the production of propylene oxide via hydrogen peroxide; Evonik Industries AG (Essen) and Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, both Germany), for a jointly developed process for the production of propylene oxide via hydrogen peroxide; Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium), for its Epicerol process for making epichlorohydrin; and to DuPont (Wilmington, Del.), for Cerenol —a new family of renewably sourced, high-performance polyether glycols.
Details of the five processes receiving honors will be published in the December 2009 issue of Chemical Engineering magazine.
Sculptures recognizing each of the five achievements were bestowed by Chemical Engineering at a ceremony following this year’s Chem Show (New York City; November 17–18).
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