JCEJ Outstanding Paper Award of 2010

Abstract

JCEJ Paper Award is given for outstanding contribution to chemical engineering documented in a paper published in Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan.The selection is made by means of a three-stage process consisting of nomination, first round elimination, and point rating. Outstanding Paper Awards Subcommittee of the journal has assessed the 147 papers published in 2010, corresponding to volume 43. The subcommittee selected the candidates of the award and the members of the editorial board confirmed the selection. As a result of this process, the editorial board finally selected the following four papers for the award of 2010. "Application of a Microreactor in the OxidativeDehydrogenation of Propane to Propylene on Calcium Hydroxyapatite and Magnesium orthoVanadate Doped and Undoped with Palladium" by Shigeru Sugiyama, Naoto Sugimoto, Adusa Ozaki, Yukimi Furukawa, Keizo Nakagawa and Ken-Ichiro Sotowa, The University of Tokushima (Sugiyama et al., 2010) Citation: This paper demonstrated that a deep oxidation of propylene to CO and CO 2 can be suppressed by employing a microreactor in the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane to propylene, and that the selectivity to propylene is improved remarkably by selecting an appropriate condition, in comparison with that using a fixedbed continuous-flow reactor. This method proposed by the authors is a novel and effective method to produce propylene which is an important raw material in the petrochemical industry. In addition, by investigating the effects of various factors such as types of catalyst and reaction temperatures on the selectivity in detail, many important knowledegs for process design and determination of optimum process conditions with a microreactor were provided. Therefore, this paper was selected as an outstanding paper. "On-Line Property Prediction for Industrial