Reliance supports chemical engineering award

An IChemE (Institution of Chemical Engineers) product story

Edited by the Processingtalk editorial team Jun 10, 2009

Reliance Industries Limited will again sponsor the IChemE (Institution of Chemical Engineers) Dhirubhai Ambani award for outstanding chemical engineering innovation for poor people.

The award will be awarded to the individual or team that best demonstrates the development and use of chemical engineering technology to support people living on less than USD2 (GBP1.24) a day.

It will be presented along with a USD10,000 prize at IChemE's annual awards dinner on 3 November in York, UK.

The award is named after the founder of Reliance Industries, Dhirubhai Ambani.

Last year, the prize was awarded to a joint project by Lehigh University, US; and Bengal Engineering and Science University, India.

They collaborated to develop an arsenic-filtering water-treatment system, already in use in parts of Pakistan where arsenic-laden water is a problem.