Series on Key Figures in Petroleum Refining Catalysis

Hou Fusheng, an expert in petrochemicals. Born on November 28, 1923, from Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. In his early years, he attended Donglin Primary School and Zhengfeng Middle School. Graduated from National Jinan University in Shanghai in 1947 with a Bachelor of Science degree. After 1950, he held various positions including Chief Engineer at the Northeast Petroleum Plant No. 10 of the Ministry of Petroleum Industry, Chief Engineer and Section Head in the Production Technology Department of the Ministry of Petroleum, Section Head at the Petroleum and Chemical Industry Research Institute of the Ministry of Petrochemicals, as well as Deputy Chief Engineer and Deputy Director in the Refining and Chemical Processing Department of the Ministry of Petroleum. In 1983, he served as the Deputy Chief Engineer of Sinopec Corporation (at the bureau level), as well as a member and secretary-general of the Technical Economics Advisory Committee. Currently, he is the deputy director of the Science and Technology Committee of Sinopec Corporation and a professor-level senior engineer. He also serves as an executive director of the Chinese Petroleum Society and a member of the China committee of the World Petroleum Congress.

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This post was last edited by yxhoo on 2011-1-7 12:27. The father of FCC technology – Eugene Houdry. Eugene Houdry (April 18, 1892 – July 18, 1962) was a French mechanical engineer who invented petroleum catalytic cracking. He initially focused on using lignite as a raw material, but after moving to the United States in 1930, he began using heavy liquid asphalt. Although other people tried some catalysts for this experiment during the same period, they gave up because the catalysts stopped working very quickly. Houdry diagnosed the essence of the problem and developed methods to regenerate the catalyst. The first Houdry unit was installed in 1937 at Sun Oil’s Marcus Hook refinery in Pennsylvania, USA. Many facilities were established before the 1940s and were helpful for U.S. wartime aviation gasoline production. The device was further greatly improved by two MIT engineers, Warren K. Lewis and Edwin R. Gilliland. Under the contract for standard oil in New Jersey, ExxonMobil has now developed a process using variable catalytic cracking to address the problem of catalyst coking during operation; this is achieved by utilizing a continuously flowing, fluidized catalyst made of zeolite powder. This process remains widely used, especially in the United States, where gasoline is subject to high standards compared to other refined products. After that, Houdry became interested in automotive catalysts, and he filed around 100 patents related to catalytic converters. But nothing came until the 1970s, because tetraethyl lead was still in use in the 1950s and poisoned the catalysts in the 1960s.

When it comes to oil refining, the first person who should be mentioned is Mr. Hou Xianglin. Check the reference link; Hai Chuan told me, “Sorry, the content you entered (such as signatures, posts, messages, etc.) contains inappropriate material and therefore cannot be submitted. Please make the changes.” ” http://news.cnpc.com.cn/zhuanti/2009/100rwtj/hxl.htm

Mr. Yang Guanghua, please refer to the link. http://lxjy.waheaven.com/Memorial/Archive/View.aspx?Number=617&ArticleID=33100

Mr. Xu Chengen, please refer to the link. http://www.tnpm.org/fengyunrenwu/guoneizhuanjiajieshao/2009-09-10/83.html

Mr. Chen Junwu, also known as Chen Junwu or Chen junwu, is a male chemical engineer and a senior engineer at Luoyang Petrochemical Engineering Company of Sinopec Group. Born in March 1927, from Changle, Fujian. Graduated from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Peking University in 1948. In 1991, he was elected an academician (member of the division) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chemical Division). 　　Academician Chen is the founder of petroleum refining catalytic cracking engineering technology in China. In the 1960s, he served as the designer of our country’s first fluidized catalytic cracking unit with a capacity of 600,000 tons per year; he also supervised the design of our country’s first catalytic cracking unit with a capacity of 1.2 million tons per year. He successfully resolved the technical problem of high catalyst consumption and pioneered large-scale fluidized industrial testing techniques in China. For these achievements, he was awarded a prize at the National Science Conference in 1978. In the 1970s, he supervised the design of China’s first set of coaxial catalytic cracking industrial test units, which were successfully scaled up for industrial use at the Lanzhou Refinery in 1982. This technology won the **First Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress in 1985. In 1982, Academician Chen served as the head of the catalytic cracking technology research team at Sinopec. He organized cooperation among research institutions, design firms, oil refining companies, and universities to work on this project, and successfully developed the technology for catalytic cracking of atmospheric residue from Daqing – a key project under the “Sixth Five-Year Plan.” This achievement won him the First Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress in 1987. Over the past 40 years, he has led the overall design of multiple refineries and supervised the design of hundreds of refining units. He made outstanding contributions to the development of fluidized catalytic cracking engineering technologies. Academician Chen has always been one of the leaders in China’s refining engineering field, making significant contributions to the development of the country’s refining industry. The book “Catalytic Cracking Processes and Engineering”, edited by Academician Chen, won the **Second Prize for Science and Technology Books. He has also supervised numerous master’s and doctoral students at various universities. In 1985, Chen Junwu was awarded the National May 1st Labor Medal and the title of \"National Outstanding Science and Technology Worker.\" In 1990, he was granted the title of Master of Engineering Design of the People’s Republic of China, and in 1995 he received the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Award for Scientific and Technical Progress.

Ms. Lu Wanzhen (Mrs. Min Enze) was born in Shanghai and came to Tianjin on September 29, 1924. He graduated from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Central University in Chongqing in 1946, obtained a master’s degree from the University of Illinois in the United States in 1949, and received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Ohio in 1951. He then conducted postdoctoral research at Northwestern University in the United States from 1952 to 1953. She responded positively to her country’s call and returned to China in 1956 to work there. At the Refining Research Institute of the Ministry of Petroleum Industry (now the Petrochemical Research Institute), she held successive positions as head of the analysis laboratory, deputy chief engineer, and chief engineer; she is currently a senior advisor at the institute. Lu Wanzhen has been engaged in analytical research work at the Petrochemical Research Institute since 1956. At that time, instrument analysis in China was still in its infancy. She made every effort to address various aspects such as personnel training, equipment acquisition, and project planning, and within a few years established an analysis and testing center with a comprehensive range of services including spectroscopy, chromatography, thermal analysis, X-ray diffraction, mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance, and elemental analysis, along with the necessary staff – thus setting a standard for various petrochemical research institutions. In particular, he did a great deal of work to advance gas chromatography and liquid chromatography, and is recognized as one of the pioneers in chromatography in China. He was the first to successfully develop elastic quartz capillary chromatography columns, contributing to the establishment of this technology in China. To address the ongoing challenges in the analysis of petroleum and complex gases, I led graduate students in successfully developing several techniques, including core-filled capillary columns and porous-layer capillary chromatography columns, for which we were awarded the third prize for technical advancement by the petrochemical company. In 1969, a catalyst poisoning problem arose in an important platinum-reforming refining process at the time, preventing the scaling-up experiments that had been tested in small-scale trials from proceeding. Lu Wanzhen, together with some young colleagues, identified the cause of the mild arsenic poisoning, enabling the factory to overcome the situation of shutdown and halted operations at that time. The analytical methods and instruments for detecting trace arsenic, developed simultaneously, won the third prize from the Petrochemical Corporation. In 1962, research was conducted on the mechanisms underlying the ablation issues in jet fuel production at that time; this laid the foundation for understanding the corrosion mechanisms of hydrocarbons on nickel and iron metals under high temperatures as well as for developing preventive measures. This work won the Fourth Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress, and it was based on these insights that numerous coking problems that arose in subsequent reforming processes were resolved. In 1974, to address the analysis of trace amounts of sulfur, nitrogen, and halogens that are frequently encountered in petroleum analysis, the microcoulometry method and the corresponding instruments were developed and have since been widely adopted. It later served as a guide for the timely monitoring of raw materials in processes such as natural gas processing, reforming, and catalytic cracking. Outstanding Contributions: Lu Wanzhen in the petrochemical industry was among the first in China to initiate research on the use of nuclear magnetic resonance for the analysis of petroleum and other additives in the 1960s. She proposed solutions to various problems related to the refining process and product quality control on multiple occasions; the development of the first generation of passivators as well as water treatment agents were all carried out under her leadership, based on the results obtained from nuclear magnetic resonance analysis. She received awards for scientific and technological progress from the Petrochemical Corporation. China faces a water shortage, and refineries require large amounts of cooling water; therefore, water treatment technology has always been of great importance to the petrochemical industry. They have made many improvements to water treatment technologies to handle water of varying quality in different areas, **reducing water consumption. Through the joint efforts of various relevant entities in the petrochemical industry, most refining and chemical processing equipment can operate on a long-term basis, in a stable and safe manner at full capacity, thereby achieving high economic and social benefits. In 1991, Lu Wanzhen used chromatography and mass spectrometry to analyze the composition of lubricants in China, which had long suffered from poor corrosion resistance. She determined that the lack of certain sulfides was the main cause of these performance defects, thereby elucidating for the first time the relationship between the composition and properties of crude oil. Lu Wanzhen took charge of the evaluation of crude oil in China for a long time; in 1986 she completed a series of 8 volumes titled \"Evaluation of Crude Oil in China.\" Subsequently, new data on emerging oil fields as well as data on crude oil from abroad were added. Computer experts at the institute used this data to develop a database for crude oil evaluation, which won third prize from the Petrochemical Corporation. In 1994, Lu Wanzhen was the first to conduct research on amorphous nickel hydrogenation catalysts at the postdoctoral research station of the Petrochemical Research Institute; she identified a viable method for its preparation and, together with the University of Science and Technology Beijing, carried out in-depth physicochemical characterization of this catalyst. In 1995, Lu Wanzhen focused on the rapidly developing field of infrared spectroscopy on the international stage, and organized the development of near-infrared spectrometers using CCD detectors. These were among the first near-infrared spectrometers to be successfully developed in China in bulk; three prototypes were supplied to petrochemical plants in Jinan, Cangzhou, Tianjin and other places for trial use, where they were very well received. Work is currently ongoing to further improve the performance of the instruments and the corresponding computing software, as well as to expand their scope of application; this effort is expected to lead to breakthroughs in testing methods within the petrochemical industry. Starting in 1995, Lu Wanzhen, taking into account the problem of crude oils with high acid content encountered in crude oil evaluation, guided her graduate students to start from colloid chemistry in order to find solutions for reducing oil losses during the alkali washing process. Building on this, she conducted research on the stability of crude oil emulsions as well as the physicochemical phenomena related to the formation of films by asphalt and gums, and identified the factors that affect crude oil emulsification. Evaluation: Lu Wanzhen, who specializes in oil refining processes, has been engaged in analytical work for a long time. She always approaches her tasks with the goal of solving practical problems; as a result, she makes use of a wide range of analytical instruments. Moreover, she keeps up to date with the developments, principles, and applications of various new analytical instruments, making her a rare all-rounder in the field of analysis. At the same time, she paid close attention to in-depth research on several analysis techniques closely related to the petrochemical industry, such as gas chromatography, nuclear magnetic resonance, and near-infrared spectroscopy, in order to establish a foothold for these techniques in China and drive innovation in their use. She has supervised over 30 graduate students, and the research projects she has worked on are mostly related to petroleum analysis. She hopes that through these research activities, she can help them develop the ability to acquire and apply knowledge. To ensure that the analysis work is targeted, she required them to be familiar with various related disciplines, such as petrochemistry, refining processes, data statistics, and precision instruments. The analysis center she leads currently provides over 100,000 pieces of data per year for various parties, yet it receives few high-level awards; she tends to approach this with a calm and open-minded attitude. She often advises anxious young people by saying, “Scientific achievements are the result of years of hard work, not sudden success.” ” Due to her outstanding contributions, Lu Wanzhen was honored as a National March 8th Red-Banner Pacesetter on two occasions in 1983 and 1990, and was elected to the Executive Committee of the National Women’s Congress from 1983 to 1984.

Mr. Kang Shien, please refer to the link. http://www.cnpec.net/news/Article/Leader/200509/4.html

Academician Yuan Qingtang – Pyrolysis technology