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American Chemical Society honors Bipin V. Vora with research award
He holds 95 patents, including 22 as sole inventor, and has contributed to several industrial process technologies.
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Malvika Choudhary - Mon, 05, May 2025
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Bipin V. Vora receiving the award / Illinois Tech
Indian American professor Bipin V. Vora was awarded the American Chemical Society’s George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry.
The national honor, presented during the American Chemical Society’s annual meeting in San Diego, recognizes Vora’s “successful development and commercialization of technologies for catalytic dehydrogenation, the conversion of methanol to olefins, and the production of biodegradable detergents.” It includes a $15,000 cash prize.
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Vora is an adjunct faculty member in the department of chemical and biological engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology’s Armour College of Engineering. He holds 95 patents, including 22 as sole inventor, and has contributed to several industrial process technologies.
Among them is the Honeywell Universal Oil Products Oleflex process, a catalytic dehydrogenation method for propane and isobutane. “I led the project from concept to commercialization, which took more than a decade of great teamwork,” Vora said.
A long-time member of the American Chemical Society, Vora has served on advisory councils at the University of New Mexico and Illinois Institute of Technology. He has held positions within the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, including director of its fuels and petrochemical division.
His accolades include election to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018, as well as fellowships with the National Academy of Inventors and the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He has received awards such as the Platts Global Energy Lifetime Achievement Award (2013) and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Process Development Practice Award (2015).
Vora has also taught at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University and Nirma University in India.
He earned a bachelor of science in chemistry from the University of Mumbai in 1963, and both a bachelor of science and a master of science in chemical engineering from the University of New Mexico in 1966 and 1967.
The George A. Olah Award is named after the Nobel laureate and recognizes original and independent contributions to the chemistry of hydrocarbons or petroleum and its products.
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