Active R&D Projects
The Industrial Technologies Program's Chemicals portfolio strategy is designed to have the greatest impact on reducing chemical industry energy intensity. The research portfolio is organized into four categories: reactions, separations, enabling technologies, and technology deployment.
Factsheets and/or a one-page summary slide for active R&D projects are available below as Adobe Acrobat PDFs. Download Adobe Reader.
Separations
This focus area targets efficiency improvements in the separations of dilute liquids, gaseous mixtures, and similar compounds.
- Low-Cost Chemical Feedstocks using an Improved and Energy-Efficient Natural Gas Liquids Removal Process, Gas Technology Institute - factsheet (PDF 1.1 MB)
- Advanced Membranes Technology Platform for Hydrocarbon Separations, Air Products and Chemicals - factsheet (PDF 1.1 MB)
- Heat Integrated Distillation through Use of Microchannel Technology, Velocys, Inc. - factsheet (PDF 1.1 MB)
- Production and Separation of Fermentation-Derived Acetic Acid, BP Chemicals - factsheet (PDF 1.1 MB)
- Ammonia Production Using Pressure Swing Adsorption, SmartKoncept Technology - factsheet (PDF 1.1 MB)
- New Design Methods and Algorithms for Highly Energy-Efficient and Low-Cost Multicomponent Distillation Processes, Purdue University - factsheet (PDF 1.1 MB)
- Novel Catalytic Membrane Reactors, Compact Membrane Systems, Inc. - factsheet (PDF 1.1 MB)
Reactions
Chemical reactions R&D focuses in chemical synthesis, new reaction media, catalysis, reaction engineering, and process intensification.
- Microchannel Reactor System Design & Demonstration for On-Site H2O2 Production by Controlled H2/O2 Reaction, Stevens Institute of Technology - factsheet (PDF 1.1 MB)
- Microchannel Reactor System for Catalytic Hydrogenation, Stevens Institute of Technology - factsheet (PDF 1.1 MB)
- Advances in Process Intensification through Multifunctional Reactor Engineering, Chemical Research & Licensing Inc - factsheet (PDF 1.1 MB)
- Olefins by High-Intensity Oxidation, Velocys, Inc - factsheet (PDF 1.1 MB)
- A Novel Highly Efficient and Economic Purification Process Revolutionizing PTA Production, GTC Technology - factsheet (PDF 1.1 MB)
- Using Ionic Liquids in Selective Hydrocarbon Conversion Processes, California Institute of Technology - factsheet (PDF 1.1 MB)
- Millisecond Oxidation of Alkanes, Rohm and Haas Company - factsheet (PDF 1.1 MB)
- Development of Highly Selective Oxidation Catalysts by Atomic Layer Deposition, Argonne National Laboratory - factsheet (PDF 1.1 MB)
Enabling Technologies
Enabling technologies are used throughout the entire manufacturing process. The Chemicals IOF portfolio targets improvements in computations, materials, process heating and cooling, and sensors.
Computations
- Enhanced Productivity of Chemical Processes Using Dense Fluidized Beds, Millennium Chemicals - factsheet (PDF 1.1 MB)