IEC 92 |
| Emil F. Jacobs, 1545 Route 22 East, Room No. CC332A, 1545 Route 22 East, Room No. CC332A, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering, Annandale, NJ 08801 |
| Petroleum and natural gas are and will continue for the foreseeable future to be the primary raw materials for essentially all transportation fuels and the primary feedstock for the petrochemical and chemical industries. The ability to improve the performance of existing processes and to develop new processes and products depends on the development of new catalysts, catalytic chemistry, active materials, and reaction engineering technology. These are extremely high-tech activities requiring all the science and technology that can be brought to bear on the challenges. It is truly research and engineering on a molecular scale that becomes commercially practical in the world's largest chemical reactors. Examples of this approach will be given. To remain competitive in the global environment, the process engineering associated with the design and operation of these world-scale plants must drive constant, real-time optimization that is molecularly-based to achieve the maximum value form each component in the feed. Thus, the chemistry and the engineering associated with these processes is molecularly focused and is inextricably interrelated. E. V. Murphree, who was one of the pioneers in this area, would applaud the progress made since his early petroleum process work.
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E. V. Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry in Honor of Leo E. Manzer, sponsored by ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co. and ExxonMobil Chemical Co.
8:15 AM-11:50 AM, Tuesday, March 25, 2003 Convention Center -- Room 393, Oral
Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry |