Global Awards 2024

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Finalists

Best Consultancy Award

  • Abbott Risk Consulting, UK – Abbott Risk Consulting
  • Axiom, UK – Closing the skills gap: What we can do
  • Genesis Energies, UK – Large scale production of green hydrogen in the UK
  • Kent, UK – Kent Best Consultancy Award
  • Vysus Group, Spain – Ensuring safety during the energy transition
  • WSP, UK – WSP Best Consultancy Award

Malaysian awards finalists to be added at later date

Biopharma Award

Sponsored by Bouygues

  • University of Sheffield, UK – Innovating and digitalising mRNA vaccine and therapeutics production platform processes

Business Start-up Award

Sponsored by Sellafield Ltd

  • DyeRecycle, UK – Giving colours a second life
  • EvoPhase, UK – Evolutionary optimisation of process machinery
  • Oort Energy, UK – Innovation of PEM stacks and systems
  • Process Risk Consulting, UK – Building a safe path to Net Zero
  • ReVentas, UK – ReVentas processes currently unrecyclable plastic waste to product near-virgin grade polymer
  • University of Sheffield; CCU International; AESSEAL, UK – FluRefin: Low cost, low energy CO2 capture and refining technology

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Award

Sponsored by WSP

  • Bouygues Energies & Services, UK – Equality, diversity and inclusion at Bouygues Energies & Services (BYES)
  • BP International, UK – How BP fosters a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion
  • Cyclife, UK – Cyclife UK equality, diversity and inclusion initiative: Culture club
  • ExxonMobil, UK – ExxonMobil UK embrace food festival: Celebrating diversity, inclusion and cultural unity
  • Johnson Matthey, UK – Driving inclusion through the power of intersectionality
  • Kent, UK – Kent’s global Inclusion Blueprint – taking a standardised and systematic approach
  • University of Melbourne - Department of Chemical Engineering, Australia – Promotion of indigenous Australians in to chemical engineering

Industry Project Award

  • All Energy, Australia – Industrial ecology: Multi-fuel biomass boiler to reduce costs and fossil fuel use
  • Almac Group, UK – Almac pharma services building 2 expansion
  • Bouygues Energies & Services, UK – Design and delivery of a cell culture media production facility
  • Fawley Refinery, UK – Fawley demineralisation plan degasser replacement project
  • Newcastle University; Carbon Clean Solutions; Altrad Babcock; Richard Alan Engineering, UK – Artemis: rotating packed bed carbon pilot plant
  • Sellafield, UK – Our race against time
  • WSP, Canada – Attawapiskat first nation water shortage emergency

Malaysian awards finalists to be added at later date

Innovative Process Award

Sponsored by BakerHicks

  • Anacarda, UK – Innovative bio-based polymer products
  • Bouygues Energies & Services, UK – Design and delivery of a cell culture media production facility
  • Chemical Reaction Engineering Group; Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; BioBusiness Venture, Malaysia – OzBiONY®: Sustainable cellulose pulp technology
  • Dow Silicones, USA – Aggressive Distillation Fouling Eliminated Through Fundamental Understanding and Innovative Development
  • Newcastle University; Carbon Clean Solutions; Altrad Babcock; Richard Alan Engineering, UK – Artemis: rotating packed bed carbon pilot plant
  • Sellafield Ltd, UK – Our race against time

Innovative Product Award

Sponsored by Harbour Energy

  • Bitrez, UK – Food and Drink and innovative process
  • Chemical Processing Services, UK – New disruptive bio based reduced hazard epoxy hardeners
  • Dow, China – Dow MobilityScience™ acoustic barrier technology enabling next generation acoustic comfort and sustainability
  • Dow Silicones, Belgium; LanzaTech, USA – EcoSense™ 2470 surfactant made from the conversion of recycled carbon emissions
  • Dow, Belgium – Upcycled silica from natural feedstock waste as alternative to microplastic powders
  • University of Sheffield; CCU International; AESSEAL, UK – FluRefin: Low cost, low energy CO2 capture and refining technology

Oil and Gas Award

  • Adaptive Process Solutions, UK – APS’ innovation delivers game-changing solution for unacceptably high OiW levels
  • BP, UK; Infosys, India; ScaleConsult, Norway – The engineering models toolkit
  • Department of Environmental and Resource Engineering; Danish Offshore Technology Centre, Denmark – Treatment of offshore produced water to achieve a zero harmful discharge
  • Optimize, UK – Driving innovation in energy operations through the use of hybrid modelling
  • Saudia Aramco, Saudi Arabia – World's first ZLD project with extreme salinity unconventional frac flow-back produced water
  • Saudi Aramco – North Ghawar Producing Department, Saudi Arabia – North Ghawar Producing Department's deployment of water oil separator hybrid flotation technology

Malaysian awards finalists to be added at later date

Process Automation and Digitalisation Award

  • BP International, UK – Unleash refinery constraints using real time optimisation, automation and digitalisation
  • BP, UK; Infosys, India; ScaleConsult, Norway – The engineering models toolkit
  • Dubai Municipality – Sewage Treatment Plants Department, UAE – The AI-driven wastewater treatment solution at Jebel Ali STP (Smart STP)
  • ExxonMobil, UK – Gasoline production: Real time optimisation
  • Saudi Aramco – Abqaiq Plants, Saudi Arabia – Digitalisation at Abqaiq Plants: A new era of process optimisation
  • Vysus Group, Spain; Kairos, Denmark – HAZOP assistant, a glimpse into the future of PHA studies

Malaysian awards finalists to be added at later date

Process Safety Award

Sponsored by PM Group

  • Adnoc Offshore, UAE – Optimising gas lift operations at UZ field
  • Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong; Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; China Petroluem & Chemical Corporation; Sinopec, China – VR_BlastSim: Pioneering integration of AI-powered simulation and VR/IoT for industrial emergency preparedness
  • Kent, UK – Process safety applied to electrolysis projects in the UK
  • Saudi Aramco - APOD, Saudi Arabia – Facility safety management through AI
  • Swagelok Company, USA – Swagelok® ammonia sampler improves sampling safety, accuracy, and efficiency
  • University of Queensland; Ampol Lytton Refinery, Australia – Ampol-UQ collaboration provides students with industry focused process safety projects
  • Vysus Group, Spain; Kairos, Denmark – HAZOP Assistant, a glimpse into the future of PHA studies

Malaysian awards finalists to be added at later date

Renewable Energy Award

  • Dubai Municipality, UAE – Warsan STP biogas to energy plant
  • Oort Energy, UK – Innovation of PEM stacks and systems
  • Rolls Royce SMR, UK; Constellation Energy Generations, USA – A critical partnership
  • Rolls Royce SMR, UK – A step ahead
  • Rolls Royce SMR, UK – What a bore!
  • University of Birmingham, UK; Global Energy Interconnection Research Institute Europe, Germany – Application of composite phase change materials in onboard air conditioning system

Malaysian awards finalists to be added at later date

Research Project Award

Sponsored by Abbott Risk Consulting (ARC)

  • Activatec; The Biorenewable Development Centre, UK – Sustainable bioproduction of lactobionic acid from whey-based bioprocess
  • Cardiff University; Origin Aqua; Welsh Water, UK – Freeox: Replacing chlorine-mediated water treatment via H2O2 synthesis
  • Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre (IDRIC), UK – IDRIC - Green transformation of the UK’s industrial heartlands
  • Johnson Matthey, UK; Doosan Enerbility, Republic of Korea – Partnering to accelerate decarbonised ammonia cracking to power solutions
  • North Carolina State University; University of Oregon; University of California at Berkeley, USA – Eco-friendly and inexpensive optimised bipolar membranes for highly efficient water dissociation
  • Rolls Royce SMR, UK– Blowing down our own trumpet

Malaysian awards finalists to be added at later date

Sustainability Award

Sponsored by Johnson Matthey

  • Circular Inovations (CIRCUIT) Research Centre; University of Auckland; Enviro, New Zealand – Driving sustainability in landfills: Cutting emissions and boosting renewable energy
  • Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Shenzhen University, China; National University of Singapore, Singapore – Plant virus control in water and infected plants by advanced oxidation processes
  • Dubai Municipality – Sewage Treatment Plants Department, UAE – The AI-driven wastewater treatment solution at Jebel Ali STP (Smart STP)
  • DyeRecycle, UK – DyeRecycle - giving colours a second life
  • Petronas Penapsian (Terengganu), Malaysia – Transforming cooling water treatment: Sustainable non-phosphorus solutions for a greener future
  • ReVentas, UK – ReVentas processes currently unrecyclable plastic waste to produce near-virgin grade polymer
  • UPM Biochemicals, Germany – Defossilising the chemical value chain – UPM Biochemical's Leuna biorefinery

Training and Development Award

Sponsored by adi Group

  • Dubai Municipality – Sewage Treatment Plants Department, UAE – Simulation and training system by virtual reality (VR)
  • Engro Polymers & Chemicals, Pakistan – Integrated Capability Model – end to end framework for technical talent development
  • ExxonMobil, UK – Process safety incident management support
  • Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia – No-code digital transformation-driven machine learning course for petroleum engineers and geoscientists
  • Sellafield Ltd, UK – Influencing the next generation - an exemplar
  • University of Sheffield, UK – Chem Eng Academy: Democratising Chemical Engineering Education

Water Award

  • Cardiff University; Origin Aqua; Welsh Water, UK – Freeox: Replacing chlorine-mediated water treatment via H2O2 synthesis
  • Department of Environment and Resource Engineering; Danish Offshore Technology Centre, Denmark – Treatment of offshore produced water to achieve a zero harmful discharge
  • National University of Singapore; Shenzhen University; Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Shantou University Medical College, China – Make ubiquitous microplastics nowhere to hide
  • Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS), Malaysia – Discrete control limit: An innovative water chemistry control methodology for open evaporative cooling water system
  • Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia – World's first ZLD project with extreme salinity unconventional frac flow-back produced water
  • WSP, Canada – Attawapiskat first nation water shortage emergency

Young Researcher

Sponsored by Elsevier

  • Dr Hassan Azzan, Imperial College London
  • Dr James Sutjianto, DuPont de Nemours
  • Dr Qinyuan Gui, Dow Chemical (China) Investment Company
  • Mr Louis Allen, University of Sheffield
  • Ms Rima Alfaraj, Saudi Aramco
  • Professor Yi Yang, National University of Singapore/Beijing Normal University

Malaysian awards finalists to be added at later date