Dr. Flora Ng
Fellow
Current Employer
University of Waterloo
Election Year
2007
Academy
Académie des sciences
Discipline
Applied Science
Department
Department of Chemical Engineering
Keywords
catalytic distillation, oilsands, clean fuels
Long Citation
Professor Ng has made exceptional seminal contributions in catalysis, green chemistry and engineering for the chemical, petrochemical and oil industry. She pioneered a new method to determine the Co-C bond dissociation energy which helps to elucidate the role of Co in vitamin B12 catalysis. She is a world leader in catalytic distillation, a novel green reactor technology which is highly energy efficient. She invented catalysts and new green processes, one of which, the Avada process for the production of ethyl acetate, won the Best Green Chemistry and Engineering Process award from the UK Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2002.
Short Citation
Professor Ng has made exceptional seminal contributions in catalysis, green chemistry and engineering. She is a world leader in catalytic distillation, a novel green reactor technology which is highly energy efficient. She invented catalysts and new green processes, one of which won the Best Green Chemistry and Engineering Process award from the UK Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2002.
Professor Ng has made exceptional seminal contributions in catalysis, green chemistry and engineering for the chemical, petrochemical and oil industry. She pioneered a new method to determine the Co-C bond dissociation energy which helps to elucidate the role of Co in vitamin B12 catalysis. She is a world leader in catalytic distillation, a novel green reactor technology which is highly energy efficient. She invented catalysts and new green processes, one of which, the Avada process for the production of ethyl acetate, won the Best Green Chemistry and Engineering Process award from the UK Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2002.
Short Citation
Professor Ng has made exceptional seminal contributions in catalysis, green chemistry and engineering. She is a world leader in catalytic distillation, a novel green reactor technology which is highly energy efficient. She invented catalysts and new green processes, one of which won the Best Green Chemistry and Engineering Process award from the UK Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2002.
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