Chemical & Process Technology

Dr. Brian W. S. Kolthammer from Research Fellow at The Dow chemical co., Midland, Michigan and Mr. Shyam Lakshmanan, group general manager at See Sen chemical Bhd & Malay-Sino chemical Industries Sdn Bhd, Perak, Malaysia are the winners of 2008 Award for Personal Achievement in chemical engineering. This announcement published in the Chemical Engineer December 2008.

Dr. Brian W. S. Kolthammer owned 33 U.S. patents and numerous non-U.S. patents, pioneering work in the kinetic modeling of Dow’s Insite catalyst systems and led Dow’s technical efforts in developing alternative supply pathways for octene-1 production.

- B.Sc. (Hons) and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry, from the University of British Columbia
- NSERC Postgraduate Fellow at The University of British Columbia
- NATO Science Fellow at Texas A&M University
- External Advisory Board at Georgia Institute of Technology’s Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
- member of the Chemical Institute of Canada
- member of American Chemical Society
- member of American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)

Mr. Shyam Lakshmanan has 20 years of inorganic chemical production at Malay-Sino Chemical Industries Sdn Bhd & See Sen Chemicals Bhd. He is the group general manager, Lakshmanan oversees two sulfuric acid plants, two chloralkali plants and a chemical transportation company. Recent contribution in modification of the turbo-alternator-cooling system located in the company’s 700-metric-ton per day (m.t./d) sulfuric-acid plant has prompted tremendous savings in power consumption.

- B.S. in Chemical Engineering Technology from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (Toronto)
- M.Sc. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from the University of Warwick, U.K.
- Chartered chemical engineer and chartered scientist (U.K.)
- Professional Engineer with Board of Engineers Malaysia
- Fellow of IChemE, Institution of Engineers, Malaysia
- Member of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (MIIChE)
- several other professional associations in Malaysia
- an adjunct lecturer at the University Technology Petronas (UTP)
- an appointed member of institution’s Industry Advisory Panel
- an industrial advisor at the University of Nottingham

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