Outstanding Achievement in Chemical and Process Engineering sponsored by Exxon Mobil

Winner:

• WSP, Canada – Attawapiskat First Nation Water Shortage Emergency

Best Consultancy sponsored by BCECA

Winner: 

• Abbott Risk Consulting, UK – Abbott Risk Consulting

Highly commended:   

• Axiom, UK – Closing the Skills Gap: What we can do
• WSP, UK – WSP Best Consultancy Award

Biopharma sponsored by Bouygues Energies & Services

Winner: 

• University of Sheffield, UK – Innovating and Digitalising mRNA Vaccine and Therapeutics Production Platform Processes

Business Start-up sponsored by Sellafield Ltd

Winner: 

• University of Sheffield; CCU International; AESSEAL, UK – FluRefin: Low Cost, Low Energy CO2 Capture and Refining Technology

Highly commended:    

• Process Risk Consulting, UK – Building a Safe Path to Net Zero
• ReVentas, UK – ReVentas Processes Currently Unrecyclable Plastic Waste to Produce Near-Virgin Grade Polymer

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion sponsored by WSP

Winner: 

• BP International, UK – How BP Fosters a Culture of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Highly commended:    

• Johnson Matthey, UK – Driving Inclusion Through the Power of Intersectionality
• Kent, UK – Kent’s Global Inclusion Blueprint – Taking a Standardised and Systematic Approach

Industry Project sponsored by Nexos

Winner: 

• Newcastle University; Carbon Clean; Altrad Babcock; Richard Alan Engineering, UK – Artemis: Rotating Packed Bed Carbon Pilot Plant

Highly commended:    

• All Energy; Australian Meat Processor Corporation; JBS Australia, Australia – Industrial Ecology: Multi-Fuel Biomass Boiler to Reduce Costs and Fossil Fuel Use
• Sellafield Ltd, UK – Our Race Against Time

Innovative Process sponsored by BakerHicks

Winner: 

• Newcastle University; Carbon Clean; Altrad Babcock; Richard Alan Engineering, UK – Artemis: Rotating Packed Bed Carbon Pilot Plant

Highly commended: 

• Anacarda, UK – Innovative Bio-Based Polymer Products
• Dow Silicones, USA – Aggressive Distillation Fouling Eliminated Through Fundamental Understanding and Innovative Development

Innovative Product sponsored by Harbour Energy

Winner: 

• Dow Silicones, Belgium; LanzaTech, USA – EcoSense™ 2470 Surfactant Made from the Conversion of Recycled Carbon Emissions

Highly commended:    

• Bitrez, UK – Food and Drink and Innovative Process
• Chemical Processing Services, UK – New Disruptive Bio Based Reduced Hazard Epoxy Hardeners

Oil and Gas sponsored by ChemUK

Winner: 

• Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS); Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Malaysia – Revolutionary Oil Absorption Technology with Kekabu 

Highly commended:    

• Technical University of Denmark; 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

Process Automation and Digitalisation sponsored by Chemicals Northwest

Winner: 

• BP International, UK – Unleash Refinery Constraints Using Real Time Optimisation, Automation and Digitalisation

Highly commended:    

• BP, UK; Infosys, India; ScaleConsult, Norway – The Engineering Models Toolkit
• ExxonMobil, UK – Gasoline Production: Real Time Optimisation

Process Safety sponsored by PM Group

Winner: 

• PETRONAS Chemicals LDPE Ammonia, Malaysia –The Power of Fundamentals: Ensuring a Future Free from Process Safety Incidents

Highly commended:    

• Kent, UK – Process Safety Applied to Electrolysis Projects in the UK
• Saudi Aramco - APOD, Saudi Arabia – Facility Safety Management Through AI

Renewable Energy sponsored by CATCH

Winner: 

• Dubai Municipality, UAE – Warsan STP Biogas to Energy Plant

Highly commended: 

• Rolls-Royce SMR, UK – A Step Ahead
• Rolls-Royce SMR, UK – What a Bore!

Research Project sponsored by Abbott Risk Consulting (ARC)

Winner: 

• Activatec; The Biorenewable Development Centre, UK – Sustainable Bioproduction of Lactobionic Acid From Whey-Based Bioprocess

Highly commended:    

• 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 

Sustainability sponsored by Johnson Matthey

Winner: 

• DyeRecycle, UK – Giving Colours a Second Life

Highly commended:    

• Circular Inovations (CIRCUIT) Research Centre; University of Auckland; Enviro, New Zealand – Driving Sustainability in Landfills: Cutting Emissions and Boosting Renewable Energy
• UPM Biochemicals, Germany – Defossilising the Chemical Value Chain – UPM Biochemical's Leuna Biorefinery

Training and Development sponsored by adiGroup

Winner: 

• Sellafield Ltd, UK – Influencing the Next Generation - An Exemplar

Highly commended:    

• Dubai Municipality, UAE – Sewage Treatment Plants Department, UAE – Simulation and Training System by Virtual Reality (VR)
• University of Sheffield, UK – Chem Eng Academy: Democratising Chemical Engineering Education

Water sponsored by Institute of Water

Winner: 

• WSP, Canada – Attawapiskat First Nation Water Shortage Emergency

Highly commended:    

• Cardiff University; Origin Aqua; Welsh Water, UK – Freeox: Replacing Chlorine-Mediated Water Treatment via H2O2 Synthesis
• 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

Young Researcher sponsored by Elsevier

Winner: 

• Professor Yi Yang, National University of Singapore; Beijing Normal University

Highly commended:    

• Dr Juin Yau Lim, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
• Dr Qinyuan Gui, Dow Chemical (China) Investment Company