Highlights

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  CHISA 2012
  Prague, Czech Republic
  2012-08-25 - 2012-08-29
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  9th European Congress of Chemical Engineering
  (ECCE-9)
  World Forum, The Hague, The Netherlands
  2013-04-20 - 2013-04-25
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  9th World Congress of Chemical Engineering (WCCE-9)
  Coex, Seoul, South Korea
  2013-08-18 - 2013-08-23

EFCE Excellence Award in Process Intensification

Winner of the EFCE Excellence Award in
Process Intensification 2011
  

Dr.ir. Patrick W.A.M. Wenmakers, The Netherlands is the winner of the EFCE Excellence Award in Process Intensification 2011 His PhD thesis on  "Hairy foam: carbon nanofibers on solid foam as catalyst support - Synthesis, mass transfer, and reactor modelling" completed at the Eindhoven University of Technology under the supervision of Prof. dr.ir Jaap C. Schouten, Department of chemical Engineering and Chemistry, TU/e, The Netherlands, received the best evaluation results in terms of relevance to process intensification, breadth and depth of the study, scientific impact and industrial relevance, innovation and dissemination of results.

Partick Wenmakers received the Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering from the Bolytechnic College Brabant, Breda, and the Masters degree in Chemical Engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology. Currently, he is active as an assistant scientist in reaction engineering at DSM-Advanced Chemical Engineering Solutions in Geleen, The Netherlands. 

The award will be presented on 21 June 2011 during special session of the 3rd EPIC conference, held in Manchester, United Kingdom, from 20 to 23 June 2011.

Winner of the EFCE Excellence Award in
Process Intensification 2009
  

Dr.-Ing. Carsten Buchaly, Germany is the winner of the EFCE Excellence Award in Process Intensification 2009 His PhD thesis on  " Experimental Investigation, Analysis and Optimisation of Hybrid Separation Processes " completed at the Technische Universität Dortmund under the supervision of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andrzej Górak, Faculty of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering, TU Dortmund, Germany, received the best evaluation results in terms of innovativeness, breadth and depth of the study, quality of publications, and its industrial relevance.

Carsten Buchaly received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in Chemical Engineering and the Dr.-Ing. degree in Chemical Engineering from the Technische Universität Dortmund. Currently, he is active as a process engineer in the Department of Process Design at Bayer Technology Services (BTS), Leverkusen. His work at BTS is focussed on the conceptual process design of base and fine chemicals.

The award was presented on 17 June 2009 during a special session of the GPE-EPIC 2009, held in Venice, Italy, from 14 to 17 June 2009.

 From left to right:
Prof. A. Gorak, Dr. P. Kreis, Dr. C. Buchaly (award winner), Prof. J. Harmsen