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Industry
Center for Environmentally
Beneficial Catalysis
New Development of
EO and EG Technologies
The technologies for making ethylene oxide (EO) and ethylene glycols
(EG) have great industrial importance. This presentation begins with an
introduction of the market and business information on glycols and their
applications. It will be followed by a brief review of the technologies for
EO, EG and their derivatives. The presentation will focus more on the new
development of technologies and processes including those using bio-mass
as feed. Some reaction mechanisms and reaction kinetics that are related to
the technical break though will be discussed.
9:00 a.m. Thursday
April 2, 2015
CEBC Seminar Room, B104
Building B, 1501 Wakarusa Drive,
Lawrence, KS
Colloquium
Dr. Xiankuan Zhang
Senior Manager,
SBU Projects & Shared Services
SABIC
Sugar Land, Texas
About the presenter
Since joining SABIC as a research associate in
1997, Dr. Zhang served a decade as a Team Leader
and five years as Pilot Plant & Facilities Manager
before becoming a Senior Manager in 2013. He had
previously worked at Eastman Chemical Company
in Tennessee and at Penn State University in
Pennsylvania. He holds 25 U.S. patents, 75 PTO and
other patents, and has published 22 peer-reviewed
research papers. He earned his PhD in Physical
Chemistry from Cambridge University in 1990,
after earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in
Chemical Engineering from Neimenggu University
and Chinese Academy of Sciences, respectively.
The Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis
(CEBC) at the University of Kansas and its partners are
developing green technologies to help the chemical
industry prevent waste and conserve the earth’s natural
resources.
www.cebc.ku.edu