Bipin Vora Receives 2003 Chemical Engineering Practice Award from American Institute of Chemical Engineers.Energy Editors/Business Editors DES PLAINES, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2004 American Institute of Chemical Engineers The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) is a professional organization for chemical engineers.[1] AIChE was established in 1908 with the purpose of establishing chemical engineers as a profession independent from chemists and mechanical (AIChE) President Diane Dorland presented UOP Sr. Corporate Fellow Bipin Vora with the 2003 Chemical Engineering Practice Award at the AIChE Annual Meeting in San Francisco in November. The award cited Vora's outstanding contributions in industrial practice of the chemical engineering profession as exemplified by his development of catalytic dehydrogenation Dehydrogenation A reaction in which hydrogen is detached from a molecule. The reaction is strongly endothermic, and therefore heat must be supplied to maintain the reaction temperature. processes and related technologies. He holds 74 patents and is the author of more than 100 published articles. Vora generously shares credit for the many successes in his 34-year career. "It was not me alone doing it," he says. "It was a team of people. I just happened to be the vehicle to move it forward." Vora came to work for UOP in 1967 as a development engineer working in plant start-ups, process design, project coordination and technical management. In 2001 he achieved the title of Sr. Corporate Fellow, the highest technical honor at UOP. In addition to being named Fellow by AIChE, Vora received the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the College of Engineering, University of New Mexico The University of New Mexico (UNM) is a public university in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was founded in 1889. It also offers multiple bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and professional degree programs in all areas of the arts, sciences, and engineering. in 1999 and the American Chemical Society The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a learned society (professional association) based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. Founded in 1876 at New York University, the ACS currently has over 160,000 members at all degree-levels and in Award in Industrial Chemistry in 2002. He serves on the advisory councils for the Department of Chemical Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology Illinois Institute of Technology, in Chicago; coeducational; founded 1940 by a merger of Armour Institute of Technology (founded 1892) and Lewis Institute (1896). , Chicago, and the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Vora earned a B. Sc. in chemistry from the K.C. College of Science at the University of Mumbai Most of the colleges in the city of Mumbai (Bombay) and the districts of Thane, Raigad, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg are affiliated to the University of Mumbai. The University of Mumbai offers Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral degrees to students. and a B.S. and an M.S., both in chemical engineering, from the University of New Mexico. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Illinois. UOP LLC, headquartered in Des Plaines, Illinois “Des Plaines” redirects here. For the river, see Des Plaines River. Des Plaines (pronounced IPA [dɛsˈpleɪnz]) is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States. , USA, is a leading international supplier and licensor of process technology, catalysts, adsorbents, process plants and consulting services to the petroleum refining, petrochemical and gas processing industries. |
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