Nominations are open for the 2009 Catalysis Club of Philadelphia Award

Each year the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia rec­og­nizes a per­son, prefer­ably from the Philadel­phia area, who has made an out­stand­ing con­tri­bu­tion to the advance­ment of catal­y­sis. Such advance­ment can be sci­en­tif­ic, tech­no­log­i­cal, or in orga­ni­za­tion lead­er­ship. The award goes to an indi­vid­ual; no split Award to two or more per­sons will be giv­en. The Award con­sists of a plaque and a $1000 cash prize.

The entire nom­i­na­tion pack­age, includ­ing a resume and rec­om­men­da­tion let­ters, should not exceed 10 pages. The dead­line for the receipt of nom­i­na­tions is April 10, 2009. Receipt of nom­i­na­tions will be acknowl­edged by email. Pri­or nom­i­na­tion pack­ages sent in 2006 or lat­er will auto­mat­i­cal­ly be con­sid­ered for the 2009 Award.

Nom­i­na­tion let­ters along with sup­port­ing mate­ri­als should be emailed in a sin­gle PDF doc­u­ment to:

Edrick Morales,
Lyon­dell­Basell Indus­tries
3801 West Chester Pike
New­town Square, PA 19073
edrick.​morales@​lyondellbasell.​com
FAX : 610–359-2434
Phone 610–359-2500

2009 Graduate Student Poster Competition

The Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia annu­al Stu­dent Poster Com­pe­ti­tion will be held Thurs­day, March 19, 2009 at the Wilm­ing­ton Hol­i­day Inn, Naa­mans Rd and I-95. To enter, please sub­mit a short abstract of your pro­posed entry before March 2, 2008 to: Joseph Fedeyko (fedeyjm@​jmusa.​com).

The com­pe­ti­tion is restrict­ed to grad­u­ate stu­dents only. Post-docs and senior under­grad­u­ates are wel­come to present their posters but are not eli­gi­ble for prizes. All poster pre­sen­ters should be list­ed as the first author, and will be guests of the Catal­y­sis Club for the evening (i.e. dinner’s on us). The five best posters will be cho­sen with one over­all win­ner who will be invit­ed to present his or her work at the annu­al Catal­y­sis Club sym­po­sium on May 21, 2009.

The Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia is very proud of this event and views it as one of the region’s pre­mier oppor­tu­ni­ties for grad­u­ate stu­dents to show­case their work with the local chem­i­cal indus­try pro­fes­sion­als. All grad­u­ate stu­dents whose work is either direct­ly or indi­rect­ly relat­ed to catal­y­sis sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy are encour­aged to sub­mit entries.

2008 NECZA Meeting: First Call for Papers

Dear NECZA mem­bers and friends,

The hol­i­day sea­son is around the cor­ner, and so is our annu­al NECZA meet­ing. It is my hon­or to orga­nize the 2008 pro­gram along with Travis Hol­man, David Olson, Ned Cor­co­ran, Long Pan, and Chris Cahill. As before, David Olson has reserved the same meet­ing room, Lynch hall, at the Chem­istry Depart­ment of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia for Fri­day, Decem­ber 12, 2008. Thus, we can still meet fol­low­ing the tra­di­tions devel­oped dur­ing the past years, thanks to David. We look for­ward to excit­ing talks and posters with vig­or­ous dis­cus­sions.

We are invit­ing talks and posters on all facets of zeo­lite sci­ence. Any­one is enti­tled to present a lec­ture or poster. We reserve the right to lim­it the num­ber of pre­sen­ta­tions or to shift lec­tures and posters, to opti­mize bal­ance among var­i­ous sub­jects in our field. If you wish to present a paper or a poster, please send an Abstract to haiming.​liu@​arkema.​com no lat­er than Novem­ber 21, 2008. Please spec­i­fy your pref­er­ence (presentation/poster) in the sub­mis­sion and the name of the pre­sen­ter. When sub­mit­ting the Abstract, please include files using both MicroSoft Word (doc) and Adobe Acro­bat (PDF) for­mats.

Down­load gen­er­al infor­ma­tion and first call for papers for the 2008 NECZA meet­ing: .

Thanks. We are look­ing for­ward to your con­tri­bu­tion and a great meet­ing!

Haim­ing Liu
Pro­gram Chair
NECZA 2008
Arke­ma Inc.
900 First Avenue
King of Prus­sia, PA 19406
Email: haiming.​liu@​arkema.​com
Tel: 610–878-6313
Fax: 610–878-6196

K. Travis Hol­man
Pro­gram Co-Chair

Job Openning: SDC Materials seeking a technical consultant

SDC Mate­ri­als seek­ing a tech­ni­cal con­sul­tant with sig­nif­i­cant expe­ri­ence in catal­y­sis

Con­sul­tant Posi­tion Descrip­tion:

  • Act in an advi­so­ry role to review and pro­vide direc­tion on inter­nal cat­a­lyst devel­op­ment pro­grams.
  • Pro­vide mar­ket and tech­ni­cal infor­ma­tion per­tain­ing to the chem­i­cal, envi­ron­men­tal, and refin­ing indus­tries.

Desired Back­ground:

  • 20+ years industry/academic expe­ri­ence in catal­y­sis

SDC­ma­te­ri­als, Inc, a pri­vate­ly held start-up ven­ture found­ed in 2004. We man­u­fac­tur­er NanoEn­hanced Prod­ucts with unique tech­nol­o­gy enabling improved per­for­mance in the cat­a­lyst, high end ceram­ics and addi­tive mar­kets.

Our pri­ma­ry busi­ness cen­ters on the devel­op­ment and man­u­fac­tur­ing of high­ly tun­able, sta­ble, and cost ben­e­fi­cial cat­a­lysts. With­in the cat­a­lysts indus­try our focus is on auto­mo­tive and fine chem­i­cals cat­a­lysts.

Head­quar­tered in Tempe, Ari­zona, where the R&D facil­i­ty is locat­ed, SDC is in the process of expand­ing our high vol­ume pro­duc­tion capac­i­ty, with facil­i­ties in Schwarzhei­de, Ger­many.

Con­tact Infor­ma­tion

Dr. Max­i­m­il­ian Biberg­er
940 S. Park Lane
Suite #2
Tempe, AZ 85281
Phone: 480–966-6106
Fax: 480–222-7398
max.​biberger@​sdcmaterials.​com
www​.sdc​ma​te​ri​als​.com

Job Openning: Market Research Analyst, Scientific/Technical Researcher

The Cat­a­lyst Group/The Cat­a­lyst Group Resources, a con­sult­ing and sci­en­tif­ic infor­ma­tion pub­lish­ing com­pa­ny to the chem­i­cal cat­a­lyst, process licens­ing and ser­vice indus­try is seek­ing a scientific/technical researcher and mar­ket research ana­lyst.

Can­di­dates must have a degree in chem­istry or chem­i­cal engi­neer­ing and/or com­men­su­rate expe­ri­ence work­ing in the chem­i­cal indus­try, prefer­ably in a non-lab­o­ra­to­ry set­ting. Exper­tise in doing tech­ni­cal, web-based research using mul­ti­ple search engines is impor­tant as well as a cre­ative, ana­lyt­i­cal mind and good orga­ni­za­tion­al skills. This posi­tion will assist in the prepa­ra­tion of our company’s client con­fi­den­tial and mul­ti-client stud­ies by pro­vid­ing crit­i­cal research and ana­lyt­i­cal data. The abil­i­ty to work in a fast paced envi­ron­ment is essen­tial. Salary is based on expe­ri­ence and a ben­e­fits pack­age is avail­able.

Please sub­mit resumes to:

Steven C. Schulte
Direc­tor of Admin­is­tra­tion
The Cat­a­lyst Group/The Cat­a­lyst Group Resources, Inc.
750 North Beth­le­hem Pike
Low­er Gwynedd PA 19002
Phone: 215–628-4447 Exten­sion 1140
Fax: 215–628-2267
scs@​catalystgrp.​com
www​.cat​a​lyst​grp​.com

Announcement of the 2008-09 Season of the Catalysis Club of Philadelphia

Dear Col­leagues:

Wel­come to the 60th sea­son of the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia. Since the club was found­ed in 1949, we con­tin­ue the tra­di­tion of hold­ing reg­u­lar meet­ings in catal­y­sis to stim­u­late dis­cus­sions among our fel­low sci­en­tists. Fol­low­ing the path, your offi­cers, list­ed on the left col­umn, have assem­bled a pro­gram of activ­i­ties for the 2008-09 sea­son and seek to pro­vide a myr­i­ad of stim­u­lat­ing and enjoy­able tech­ni­cal meet­ings. We hope that you will join us by reg­is­ter­ing as a mem­ber of the club for the new sea­son and enjoy the pre­sen­ta­tions.

The pro­gram includes a joint meet­ing with the Wilm­ing­ton area sec­tion of AIChE in Octo­ber. Our annu­al stu­dent poster ses­sion will be coor­di­nat­ed by Joseph Fedeyko (John­son Matthey) and held in March. Michael A. Smith (Vil­lano­va Uni­ver­si­ty) will orga­nize the Spring Sym­po­sium in May. As intro­duced in the past cou­ple of years, we will con­tin­ue to have a brief pre­sen­ta­tion by a local grad­u­ate stu­dent or post-doc pri­or to the main lec­ture at some of the month­ly meet­ings.

Dues for the 2008-09 sea­son will remain at $10.00 ($5.00 for the local club and $5.00 to the nation­al club). Dues for stu­dents will be $6.00. You can pay your dues to your com­pa­ny rep­re­sen­ta­tive, to our trea­sur­er (Steve Har­ris), or at the month­ly meet­ings. A list of com­pa­ny rep­re­sen­ta­tives is avail­able at catal​y​sis​clubphilly​.org/​c​o​m​p​R​e​p​.​php.

The cost of the din­ner will again be $30.00 for mem­bers, $15.00 for students/retirees and will include one drink dur­ing the social hour. Walk-ins and non-mem­bers din­ner fees will be $35.00. We strong­ly encour­age advance reser­va­tions for the meet­ings.

We encour­age all mem­bers to use our web­site at catal​y​sis​clubphilly​.org to receive lat­est infor­ma­tion on month­ly meet­ings. If you would like to receive our month­ly announce­ments or need to update your con­tact infor­ma­tion, please con­tact our Mem­ber­ship Direc­tor, Eliz­a­beth Ross-Medgaar­den at Elizabeth.​Ross-​Medgaarden@​lyondellbasell.​com.

Please con­tin­ue to sup­port our club by attend­ing and invit­ing your col­leagues to our month­ly meet­ings.

I am look­ing for­ward to see­ing you at the club month­ly meet­ings. Please feel free to con­tact me, or any of the oth­er offi­cers, through­out the year with any com­ments or sug­ges­tions for the club.

Best regards,

Hai-Ying Chen
Chair
610–341-3441
chenh@​jmusa.​com

Thanks to our 2007–2008 Sponsors

We would like to express our appre­ci­a­tion for the gen­er­ous sup­port of our spon­sors dur­ing the 2007-08 sea­son.

Gold Son­sors:

  • Lyon­dell­Basell Indus­tries
  • The Cat­a­lyst Group
  • The PQ Corporation/Zeolyst Inter­na­tion­al
  • Arke­ma
  • Colo­nial Met­als, Inc.
  • Hype­r­i­on Catal­y­sis
  • Symyx
  • BASF
  • Du Pont

Sil­ver Spon­sors:

  • Lum­mus Tech­nol­o­gy, a CB&I Com­pa­ny
  • Air Prod­ucts
  • Evonik
  • John­son Matthey Cat­a­lysts
  • Mil­len­ni­um Inor­gan­ic Chem­i­cals