AIChE Centennial: ChE Research and Technology - Past and Future

Session 325 - Hundred Years of Advancements in Fuels and Petrochemicals
This session will be a featured session in the fall meeting of AIChE’s centennial year where a select group of invited speakers will address the key developments in the field of fuels and petrochemicals over the past hundred years. The emphasis will be on the history of advancements in the Fuels and Petrochemicals area, as well as opportunities and challenges for the next hundred years. Focus will be in the areas of of technology, operations, support services and marketing in the field of LNG, Refining, ChEmicals and Petrochemicals
Cochairs: Lori T. McDowell
Syamal K. Poddar
R.G. Mallinson
CoSponsor(s): Fuels and Petrochemicals Division
  Building on History: Pathways to Energy Independence and Sustainability through Gasification and Sequestration
Judd Swift
  A Century of Petrochemical Advances
Bipin V. Vora, Peter R. Pujado
  The Role of Industrial Gases in Fuels & Petrochemicals: Past, Present, and Future
Dante Bonaquist
  History of the Development of Lng Technology
ChEn-Hwa Chiu
  Intermission
  Gasification at a Crossroad
Amos Avidan, Lee Schmoe
  Past 100 Years of Refining and Future Expectations
Irv Wiehe
  100 Years of Petroleum Refining Catalysts
E. Thomas Habib
  Reception

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