Active R&D Projects
The Industrial Technologies Program's (ITP) 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 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.
- Advanced Membranes Technology Platform for Hydrocarbon Separations, Air Products and Chemicals - factsheet (PDF 1.0 MB)
- Ammonia Production Using Pressure Swing Adsorption, SmartKoncept Technology - factsheet (PDF 1.1 MB)
- Distillation Column Flooding Predictor, 2ndpoint, LLC - factsheet (PDF 1.0 MB)
- Heat Integrated Distillation through Use of Microchannel Technology, Velocys, Inc. - factsheet (PDF 1.1 MB)
- Low Cost Chemical Feedstocks using an Improved and Energy Efficient Natural Gas Liquids Removal Process, Gas Technology Institute - factsheet (PDF 1.1 MB)
- New Design Methods and Algorithms for Multi-Component 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.
- Advances in Process Intensification through Multifunctional Reactor Engineering, Chemical Research & Licensing Inc - factsheet (PDF 1.0 MB)
- Development of Highly Selective Oxidation Catalysts by Atomic Layer Deposition, Argonne National Laboratory - factsheet (PDF 1.1 MB)
- Microchannel Reactor System for Catalytic Hydrogenation, Stevens Institute of Technology - factsheet (PDF 1.0 MB)
- Millisecond Oxidation of Alkanes, Rohm and Haas Company - factsheet (PDF 1.1 MB)
- Using Ionic Liquids in Selective Hydrocarbon Conversion Processes, California Institute of Technology - factsheet (PDF 1.1 MB)