Abhishek Roy of Dow to Receive 13th Annual SCI Gordon E. Moore Medal
July 25 2016 - 9:12AM
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Breakthrough New Chemistry Improves Water Purification
Membranes
The Society of Chemical Industry (SCI), America Section, will
award the 13th annual SCI Gordon E. Moore Medal to Abhishek Roy,
Ph.D. Roy is the lead product research and development manager and
technical platform leader for the reverse osmosis (RO) membrane
chemistry platform of Dow Energy and Water Solutions.
The SCI established the Gordon E. Moore Medal to recognize
early-career success in innovation, as reflected both in market
impact and improvement to quality of life.
Roy is credited as the primary inventor of DOW FILMTEC™ ECO
Reverse Osmosis Elements. The solution fights water scarcity by
delivering 40 percent better purification with 30 percent less
energy and has the potential to impact millions of lives. FILMTEC™
ECO Elements require less energy to pump water through the membrane
and less chemicals for cleaning. These combined benefits result in
significant operational savings for customers, ranging from 16 to
19 percent.
Besides water-energy nexus, Roy and his team have contributed
toward addressing two of the most critical emerging needs:
increasing availability of fresh drinking water in developing
countries and taking steps toward making water reuse economical and
practical. Introduction of the breakthrough residential tankless
product has reduced the footprint cost and DOW FILMTEC™ XFRLE
product is enabling low-energy operation under challenging water in
water reuse applications. These technologies have enabled more than
10 new products over the last five years.
“The availability of clean water is one of the most difficult
challenges Dow is helping to solve. Abhishek is the talented
scientist behind the breakthrough innovation that will deliver a
more sustainable water supply to the world,” says A.N. Sreeram, Dow
senior vice president and chief technology officer. “We are proud
that Abhishek’s outstanding contributions have been honored with
the Gordon E. Moore Medal. It is a fitting recognition for work
that will improve the lives of people around the world.”
Roy was honored with the prestigious Dow Sustainability
Innovator Award in 2014. The DOW FILMTEC™ ECO Reverse Osmosis
element is a ‘Breakthrough to World Challenges’ under Dow’s 2015
Sustainability Goals, recognition that the innovation played a
significant role in the Company attaining these goals and that the
product is both an ecological and commercial success. The DOW
FILMTEC™ ECO Reverse Osmosis element is also a 2014 Edison Award
winner in the Energy and Sustainability category.
The Moore Medal will be awarded on September 13, 2016, during a
luncheon at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) headquarters in
Philadelphia as part of Innovation Day 2016. This event will be
jointly hosted by SCI and CHF, bringing together more than 150
leading researchers from industrial laboratories to discuss current
trends and issues in chemical research.
Roy earned his PhD from Virginia Tech under the guidance of
James E. McGrath in the macromolecular science and engineering
program. He has authored 30 peer reviewed journal articles and
holds 10 issued patents, with many pending on his RO work. Roy was
recognized with numerous awards including Dow’s prestigious
Sustainability Innovator Award and Virginia Tech’s outstanding
recent alumnus award from the College of Science.
Roy is the fourth Dow researcher to win the Medal over the
thirteen years of its existence. He joins Jerzy Klosin (2013),
Edmund M. “Ted” Carnahan (2008) and George Barclay (2004) as Moore
medalists from Dow.
About Dow
Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines the power of science and technology to
passionately innovate what is essential to human progress. The
Company is driving innovations that extract value from material,
polymer, chemical and biological science to help address many of
the world's most challenging problems such as the need for clean
water, clean energy generation and conservation, and increasing
agricultural productivity. Dow's integrated, market-driven,
industry-leading portfolio of specialty chemical, advanced
materials, agrosciences and plastics businesses delivers a broad
range of technology-based products and solutions to customers in
approximately 180 countries and in high-growth sectors such as
packaging, electronics, water, coatings and agriculture. In 2015,
Dow had annual sales of nearly $49 billion and employed
approximately 49,500 people worldwide. The Company's more than
6,000 product families are manufactured at 179 sites in 35
countries across the globe. On June 1, 2016, Dow became the 100
percent owner of Dow Corning Corporation’s silicones business, a
global company with sales of greater than $4.5 billion in 2015, 25
manufacturing sites in 9 countries and approximately 10,000
employees worldwide. References to "Dow" or the "Company" mean The
Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated subsidiaries unless
otherwise expressly noted. More information about Dow can be found
at www.dow.com.
About the SCI Gordon E. Moore Medal
The Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) established the SCI
Gordon E. Moore Medal to recognize early-career success in
innovation, as reflected both in market impact and improvement to
quality of life. By highlighting extraordinary individuals and
their work, SCI aims to promote public understanding of research
and development in modern chemical industries, enhance the interest
of students in applied chemistry by providing role models, and
emphasize the role of creative research in the global economy.
About the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI)
SCI America Group, launched in 1894, is part of the Society of
Chemical Industry’s international organization. It provides a
unique networking forum for chemical industry leaders, industrial
scientists and technologists to exchange new business ideas and
best practices. It celebrates achievement to promote public
awareness of the contributions of industrial chemistry and inspire
students to enter technical careers. The prestigious Perkin and
Chemical Industry Medals are awarded annually by SCI. SCI America
events are managed by the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF).
The Moore Medal award luncheon is part of Innovation Day, a full
day of research collaboration in the molecular sciences held at CHF
on September 13, 2016.
About the Chemical Heritage Foundation
CHF fosters dialogue on science and technology in society. Our
staff and fellows study the past in order to understand the present
and inform the future. We focus on matter and materials and their
effects on our modern world in territory ranging from the physical
sciences and industries, through the chemical sciences and
engineering, to the life sciences and technologies. We collect,
preserve, and exhibit historical artifacts; engage communities of
scientists and engineers; and tell the stories of the people behind
breakthroughs and innovations.
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