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Thanks to our sponsors for helping to enrich the next generation of chemical engineers. AIChE acknowledges the following generous sponsors whose support successfully launched AIChE ScaleUp:
Platinum Level Sponsor
- BP
- Chevron
Gold Level Sponsors
- Air Products
- Dow
- Dupont
- Merck
- UOP
- AIChE Foundation
About British Petroleum
BP’s main businesses are exploration and production; refining and marketing; and gas, power and renewables. Serving more than 13 million customers in more than 100 countries across six continents, BP is one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies based on market capitalization. The largest producer of oil and a leading producer of natural gas in the U.S., BP p.l.c. is the parent company of the BP group of companies, which include such familiar brands as BP, Amoco, Aral, ARCO and Castrol. BP employs 100,000 people worldwide, including 40,000 in the U.S. BP is the first major energy company to acknowledge the need for precautionary action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The company continues to lead the effort to meet the world’s growing demand for sustainable, environmentally responsible energy.
About Chevron
Chevron is one of the world's largest integrated energy companies. Headquartered in San Ramon, California, we conduct business in more than 100 countries. We are engaged in every aspect of the crude oil and natural gas industry, including exploration and production, manufacturing, marketing and transportation, chemicals manufacturing and sales, geothermal, and power generation. We're also investing in renewables and advanced technologies.
Our diverse and highly skilled global workforce consists of approximately 62,000 employees and about 5,000 service station employees. In 2008, Chevron produced 2.53 million barrels of net oil-equivalent per day. About 75 percent of that volume occurred outside the United States in more than 20 different countries. Chevron had a global refining capacity of more than 2 million barrels of oil per day at the end of 2008.
We recognize that the world needs all the energy we can develop, in every potential form. That's why our employees work daily to find newer, cleaner ways to power the world.
About Air Products
Air Products touches the lives of consumers around the globe in positive ways every day. The company is recognized for its innovative culture, operational excellence and commitment to safety andthe environment. Our aim at Air Products is to develop lasting relationships with our customers and communities based on human qualities: an understanding of their needs, integrity and honesty in the way we do business, and a passion for exceeding expectations.
Air Products was established in 1940 in Detroit, Michigan, on the strength of a simple but then revolutionary idea: the “on-site” concept of producing and selling industrial gases, primarily oxygen. At the time, most oxygen was sold as a highly compressed gas product in cylinders that weighed five times more than the gas itself. Air Products proposed building oxygen gas generating facilities adjacent to large-volume users, thereby reducing distribution costs. The concept of piping the gas directly from the generator to the point of use proved sound and technically solvable.
About Dow
With annual sales of $54 billion and 46,000 employees worldwide, Dow is a diversified chemical company that combines the power of science and technology with the "Human Element" to constantly improve what is essential to human progress. The Company delivers a broad range of products and services to customers in around 160 countries, connecting chemistry and innovation with the principles of sustainability to help provide everything from fresh water, food and pharmaceuticals to paints, packaging and personal care products. References to "Dow" or the "Company" mean The Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated subsidiaries unless otherwise expressly noted.
About DuPont
DuPont is a science-based products and services company. Founded in 1802, DuPont puts science to work by creating sustainable solutions essential to a better, safer, healthier life for people everywhere. The company's mission is sustainable growth and to accomplish this, DuPont is organized into five growth platforms, each of which has a global leader. DuPont sees its keys to success dependent on three strategies: going where the growth is, putting science to work, and leveraging the power of One DuPont. Long known for its technical leadership, DuPont has exceptional scientific and process engineering capability and is actively pursuing product and process developments in emerging areas such as bio-based materials and biofuels.
DuPont operates in more than 70 countries and offers a wide range of innovative products and services for markets including agriculture and food; building and construction; communications; and transportation. As part of its corporate culture, DuPont is committed to the core values of safety and health, environmental stewardship, the highest ethical behavior, and respect for people.
About Merck
Merck & Co., Inc. is a global research-driven pharmaceutical company dedicated to putting patients first. Established in 1891, Merck currently discovers, develops, manufactures and markets vaccines and medicines to address unmet medical needs. The Company devotes extensive efforts to increase access to medicines through far-reaching programs that not only donate Merck medicines but help deliver them to the people who need them. Merck also publishes unbiased health information as a not-for-profit service.
About UOP
UOP LLC, headquartered in Des Plaines, Illinois, 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. UOP has been delivering cutting-edge technology to these industries for over 90 years.
The company’s roots date back to 1914, when the revolutionary Dubbs thermal cracking process created the technological foundation for today’s modern refining industry. In the ensuing decades, UOP engineers have generated thousands of patents, leading to important advances in process technology, profitability consultation, and equipment design. In addition, our latest proprietary discovery methods for identifying new catalysts and adsorbents are enabling us to bring such products to the marketplace faster than ever before.
UOP is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, Inc. and is part of Honeywell’s Specialty Materials strategic business group.
About AIChE Foundation
The AIChE Foundation raises funds to support projects and activities that further the Institute's mission. Through the generosity of AIChE members and partners in industry, the AIChE Foundation facilitates the development and implementation of new and enriched programs for members and the public. Funds raised by the AIChE Foundation have supported initiatives to interest children in chemical engineering and increase public awareness of the contributions chemical engineers make to the quality of life. Ongoing programs administered by the AIChE Foundation include scholarships and support of activities for students, women and minority chemical engineers.