IChemE medal winners announced

ENERGY experts and dedicated volunteers are among 26 chemical engineers being recognised by IChemE for outstanding contributions to the profession in industry and academia.

The Trustees Medal is being awarded to Brunel University’s Professor Stefaan Simons. The inaugural Chair of the IChemE Energy Centre Board, he established the Energy Centre, its Board and lead the development of its work programme alongside members and IChemE staff. He has helped raise the profile of chemical engineering in the energy landscape among the global engineering community and policy-makers.

Independent consultant Rodney Allam is the first-ever recipient of the new Clean Energy Medal. He is a distinguished member in the field of carbon capture and storage and has contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2000. He is the developer of the ‘Allam Cycle’, a low-cost energy recycling process that uses captured carbon dioxide to power turbines in natural gas plants. It is set to revolutionise carbon capture technology.

Andy Brown, Progressive Energy, UK, will be presented with the Ambassador Prize, for major contributions to IChemE’s Clean Energy Special Interest Group (CESIG) for more than 15 years. Leading the CESIG’s work on hydrogen, he contributed a report by numerous professional engineering institutions assessing the possibility of using hydrogen to replace natural gas in the UK’s gas grid, and has overseen a series of features on hydrogen in The Chemical Engineer.

The Greene Medal will be presented to Fenella Nordquist from KBR, UK. An active IChemE volunteer for almost 25 years, she has been instrumental in implementing the evolving process of accrediting chemical engineering degrees, and has mentored generations of chemical engineering students.

Angela Osborne, eXmoor Pharma Concepts, UK will be presented with the Donald Medal for her pioneering work in applying process engineering disciplines in cell and gene therapy to develop regenerative medicines.

Raphaël Faure, Matthieu Flin, Pascal Del Gallo and Marc Wagner, from Air Liquide, France, will be awarded the Hanson Medal for their article, “Add it up! How 3D printing of reactors can help chemical engineers with process intensification”, published in The Chemical Engineer.

The medal winners will be awarded their prizes at events throughout the year. The full list of recipients is available here.