Sustainable Energy Award

Winner:

2009 - Genencor: A Danisco Division

Description:

This award recognizes individuals in industry, teams from industry, or entire companies, who have made substantial contributions toward development, generation and use of energy through the application of chemical engineering. Eligible nominees may also be from a government laboratory or other nonacademic entity. Examples of the types of contributions to be recognized include:

• Developing innovative technologies for producing and delivering energy
• Finding new ways to conserve energy and make processes more efficient
• Identifying and developing new sources of energy supply
• Effecting positive change in behavior of suppliers or consumers of energy
• Generating better understanding of complex energy systems
• Reducing the environmental footprint of energy technologies
• Improving the sustainability of providing and using energy

Selection of the winner of the award will be based on three key criteria:

• Impact of the contribution – has it made a difference?
• Magnitude of the challenges that were overcome – what was the degree of difficulty?
• Innovation and technical creativity – what is the intellectual content?

Deadline:

Nominations are due February 15, 2010.

Award:

A plaque

Presentation:

Presented at the Honors Ceremony of the AIChE Annual Meeting.