New - CEBC - The University of Kansas
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New - CEBC - The University of Kansas
Industry Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis New Development of EO and EG Technologies The technologies for making ethylene oxide (EO) and ethylene glycols (EG) have great industrial importance. This presentation begins with an introduction of the market and business information on glycols and their applications. It will be followed by a brief review of the technologies for EO, EG and their derivatives. The presentation will focus more on the new development of technologies and processes including those using bio-mass as feed. Some reaction mechanisms and reaction kinetics that are related to the technical break though will be discussed. 9:00 a.m. Thursday April 2, 2015 CEBC Seminar Room, B104 Building B, 1501 Wakarusa Drive, Lawrence, KS Colloquium Dr. Xiankuan Zhang Senior Manager, SBU Projects & Shared Services SABIC Sugar Land, Texas About the presenter Since joining SABIC as a research associate in 1997, Dr. Zhang served a decade as a Team Leader and five years as Pilot Plant & Facilities Manager before becoming a Senior Manager in 2013. He had previously worked at Eastman Chemical Company in Tennessee and at Penn State University in Pennsylvania. He holds 25 U.S. patents, 75 PTO and other patents, and has published 22 peer-reviewed research papers. He earned his PhD in Physical Chemistry from Cambridge University in 1990, after earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering from Neimenggu University and Chinese Academy of Sciences, respectively. The Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis (CEBC) at the University of Kansas and its partners are developing green technologies to help the chemical industry prevent waste and conserve the earth’s natural resources. www.cebc.ku.edu