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The Institution of Chemical Enginneers AwardsThe IChemE offer a number of awards for Innovation and excellence in the green chemical technoclogy and sustainability area IChemE 2008 Award Information2006 Green Chemical Technology AwardsThe 2006 Award for Green Chemical Technology, presented by Neville Hargreaves, commercial director, was accepted by the team from Carbon8. Their accelerated carbonation technology (ACT) aims to treat hazardous wastes and remediate contaminated land by carbonation. The process takes minutes rather than months, so is significantly quicker and more cost effective than alternatives. Chemistry Innovation handed out the award on 5 October 2006 under the umbrella of IChemE’s annual awards programme, which recognises innovation and rewards excellence in the chemical and chemistry-using industries. 2005 Crystal Faraday Green Chemical Technology AwardsThe Crystal Faraday Awards celebrate outstanding achievement in the commercialisation of Green and Sustainable Chemical Technology. The award winner was announced at the IChemE Awards Dinner on 29 September 2005 at the Royal Courts of Justice, by Boris Johnson MP. Davy Process Technology Limited received the award for their green process for ethyl acetate production. This is a commercially successful process: only 5 years after work began, Sasol has a commercial 50,000m tpa plant in operation and a Chinese plant with double the capacity under construction. Davy Process Technology Ltd is a UK company that provides licences to operate advanced process technologies related to the manufacture of oil and gas, petrochemicals, commodity chemicals, fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Other short listed entrants included Cardiff University in collaboration with Johnson Matthey Catalysts and Pfizer Global R&D; 2004 Crystal Faraday Green Chemical Technology AwardsThe Award Winners were announced at the Chemical Industry Association Awards dinner in Manchester on 6 July 2004. In 2004, the three awards given to UK companies for technology, products or services were:
See the Crystal Faraday Website for more details of the awards. UK Awards for Green Chemical Technology - 2003The awards were sponsored by the CRYSTAL Green Chemical Technology Faraday Partnership and administered by the Green Chemistry Network. The Awards were presented at the IChemE Gala Awards Dinner on 26 June at Alexandra Palace. In 2003, three awards were given to UK companies for technology, products or services:
UK Green Chemistry Award Winners - 2001We are pleased to announce the winner of the UK Green Chemistry Awards, sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry; Salters' Company; Jerwood Charitable Foundation; DTI and DETR. The Jerwood Salters' Environment
Award The award of £10,000 is given to a young academic, working in collaboration with industry. The award is sponsored by Salters' Company, with the generous financial support of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Full details of the award winning application * UK Green Chemistry Award Winners - 2000We are pleased to announce the winners of the UK Green Chemistry Awards, sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry; Salters' Company; Jerwood Charitable Foundation; DTI and DETR. There are 3 awards:
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Full details of the award winning application * All qualifying entries were judged by an expert panel, appointed by the Royal Society of Chemistry and Salters' Company. * This is a PDF file and requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader IChemE Environment Awards2007Award Winners of the IChemE awards IChemE 2008 Award InformationHGCA Enterprise AwardsHome Grown Cereals Association Enerprise Awards for businesses with pioneering ideas for using grain in alternative ways. The awards are worth between £5,000 and £50,000 and can be used to assist at many stages of research and product development. For further information visit the HGCA web site Awards WorldwidePresidential Green Chemistry Challenge AwardsGreen and Sustainable Chemistry Network AwardsRACI Green Chemistry Challenge AwardsINCA Recognition ProgramPresidential Green Chemistry Challenge AwardsIn the USA, The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge was established by President Clinton in 1995 to recognise and promote fundamental and innovative chemical methods that accomplish pollution prevention through source reduction and that have broad applicability in industry. The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards Program was established to recognise technologies that incorporate the principles of green chemistry into chemical design, manufacture and use. The evaluation of the new technology's impact will include considerations of the health and environmental effects throughout the technology's lifecycle with a recognition that incremental improvements are necessary. There are three focus areas for the awards:
Approximately five awards are made each year:
For further information visit www.epa.gov/greenchemistry/pubs/pgcc/presgcc.html 2007 Award Winners
Professor Kaichang Li, Oregon State University, Columbia Forest Products and Hercules Incorporated - Development and Commercial Application of Environmentally Friendly Adhesives for Wood Composites
Headwaters Technology Innovation - Direct Synthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide by Selective Nanocatalyst Technology
Cargill, Inc - BiOH™ Polyols
NovaSterilis Inc. - Environmentally Benign Medical Sterilization Using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
Professor Michael J. Krische, University of Texas at Austin - Hydrogen-Mediated Carbon–Carbon Bond Formation 2006 Award Winners
Merck & Co., Inc - Novel Green Synthesis for ß-Amino Acids Produces the Active Ingredient in Januvia™
Codexis, Inc - Directed Evolution of Three Biocatalysts to Produce the Key Chiral Building Block for Atorvastatin, the Active Ingredient in Lipitor®
S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc - Greenlist™ Process to Reformulate Consumer Products
Arkon Consultants & NuPro Technologies - Environmentally Safe Solvents and Reclamation in the Flexographic Printing Industry
Professor Galen J. Suppes, University of Missouri-Columbia - Biobased Propylene Glycol and Monomers from Natural Glycerin 2005 Award Winners
Archer Daniels Midland Company & Novozymes- NovaLipid™: Low Trans Fats and Oils Produced by Enzymatic Interesterification of Vegetable Oils Using Lipozyme® Merck & co., Inc - A Redesigned, Efficient Synthesis of Aprepitant, the Active Ingredient in Emend®: A New Therapy for Chemotherapy-Induced Emesis
BASF Corporation - A UV-Curable, One-Component, Low-VOC Refinish Primer: Driving Eco-Efficiency Improvements Designing Safer Chemicals Award
Metabolix, Inc - Producing Nature's Plastics Using Biotechnology
Prof. Robin D. Rogers, University of Alabama - A Platform Strategy Using Ionic Liquids to Dissolve and Process Cellulose for Advanced New Materials 2004 Award Winners
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company- Development of a Green Synthesis for Taxol® Manufacture via Plant Cell Fermentation and Extraction
Buckman Laboratories International, Inc. - Optimyze®: A New Enzyme Technology to Improve Paper Recycling
Engelhard Corporation - Engelhard Rightfit™ Organic Pigments: Environmental Impact, Performance and Value
Jeneil Biosurfactant Company - Rhamnolipid Biosurfactant – A Natural Low Toxicity Alternative to Synthetic Surfactants
Professor Charles A Eckert and Professor Charles L Liotta, Georgia Instituteof Technology - Benign Tunable Solvents Coupling Reaction and Separation Processes. 2003 Award Winners
Sud-Chemie Inc.- A Wastewater-Free Process for Synthesis of Solid Oxide Catalysts
DuPont - Microbial Production of 1,3-Propanediol
Shaw Industries, Inc. - ExoWork™ Carpet Tile: A Cradle-to-Cradle Product
AgraQuest, Inc. - Serenade® : An effective, Environmentally Friendly Biofungicide
Professor Richard A Gross, Polytechnic University - New options for Mild and Selective Polymerizations using Lipases 2002 Award Winners
Pfizer, Inc. - Green Chemistry in the Redesign of the Sertraline Process
SC Fluids, Inc. - SCORR Supercritical CO2 Resist Remover
Cargill Dow LLC - NatureWorks™ PLA Process
Chemcial Specialities, Inc. - ACQ Preserve® : The Environmentally Advanced Wood Preservative
Professor Eric J Beckman, University of Pittsburgh - Design of non-fluorous, Highly CO2-Soluble Materials 2001 Award WinnersFor further information see Volume 3 issue 4 of Green Chemistry
Bayer Corporation and Bayer AG - Synthesis of an environmentally friendly biodegradable chelating agent, sodium iminodissuccinate
Novozymes North America, Inc. - Development of Biopreparation™ technology on enzymatic process for treating cotton textiles
PPG Industries, Inc. - Use of yttrium as a substitute for lead in cationic coatings
EDEN Bioscience Corporation - Development of Messesnger® agricultural technology defense systems
Professor Chao-Jun Li, Tulane University - Design of a variety of transition metal catalysed reactions that can be run in air & water, rather than in organic solvents and inert atmosphere 2000 Award WinnersFor further information see Volume 2 issue 5 of Green Chemistry
Roche Colorado Corp., Boulder won the award for their new process for manufacturing the anti-viral compound Cytovene (ganciclovir). The new guanine triester based process reduced the number of reagents and intermediates from 22 to 11 whilst significantly reducing waste and emissions whilst increasing overall yield by 25%..
Bayer Corp., Pittsburgh won the award for developing two component waterborne polyurethane coatings. Two component polyurethane systems usually contain polyisocyanate and polyol in organic solvents, that evaporate off on curing the polymer. Although water based coating had been considered before, the reaction between the isocyanate and water caused many problems. Bayer have largely overcome these by attaching hydrophillic groups to the isocyanate.
Dow AgroSciences won the award for their Sentricon anti-termite system. US consumers spend $1.5 billion pa on termite treatment! Sentricon delivers targeted doses of hexaflomuron (an EPA registered reduced risk pesticide) from termite monitoring stations using innovative delivery technology developed the University of Florida. The system reduces chemical usage overall as well as using an eco-friendly pesticide.
RevTech Inc., N.J., won the award for its Envirogluv glass decorating technology. The technology avoids use of heavy metals and VOC's that are often found in labels on glass containers, instead organic inks which are cured onto the glass by UV light ore used. One of the keys to the technology is that the glass is pretreated with a silane that forms a siloxane bridge with the hydroxyl groups in the glass.
Professor Chi Huey Wong (Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla Califonia) won the award for his pioneering work on catalytic enzymatic synthesis. Wong's varied work includes development of an irreversible enzymatic transesterification reaction using enol esters and synthesis of complex carbohydrates based on genetically engineered glycosyltransferases. Green and Sustainable Chemistry Network AwardsThe Green & Sustainable Chemistry Network, Japan was established in March 2000 to promote research and development for the Environment and Human Health and Safety through the innovation of Chemistry. The GSCN started the "GSC Awards" in 2001. GSC Awards are to be granted to individuals, group or company who greatly contributed to promote GSC through their research, development and their industrialization in the fields such as developing of industrial technology, decreasing environmental bourdon, such as carbon dioxide, waste, landfill, harmful by-products etc., establishing new philosophy/methodology in research fields. The achievements are awarded either by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, or by the Minister of the Environment, or by the Minister of Education, Sports, Culture, Science and technology, depending on their achievements since 2002. In addition, the GSC network newly established GSC Student Travel Grant Awards to promote student's approach on GSC in 2004. The selected students are sent to the student workshop of the international conference on GSC as Japanese representatives. For further information visit the GSCN web site RACI Green Chemistry Challenge AwardsThe Royal Australian Chemical Institute Green Chemistry Challenge awards are to recognise and promote fundamental and innovative chemical methods in Australia that accomplish pollution prevention through source reduction and that have broad applicability in industry, and to recognise contributions to education in Green Chemistry. The Green Chemistry Challenge Awards are open to all individuals, groups and organisations, both nonprofit and for profit, including academia, and industry. The nominated green chemistry technology must have reached a significant milestone within the past five years in Australia (for example been researched, demonstrated, implemented, applied, patented etc.) and should be an example of one or more of the following 3 focus areas:
For further information visit the RACI web site INCA Recognition ProgramIn Italy in February 1999, the National Interuniversity Consortium of Chemistry for the Environment (INCA) launched an annual recognition program of industrial contributions in Green Chemistry / Clean Chemical Production Processes. For further information contact INCA or Email info_INCA@uive.it
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