Hutchison Medal
The Hutchison Medal recognises an author for a contribution to the literature that has stimulated debate within the chemical engineering community.
The medal is named in memory of a past president of IChemE, William Kenneth Hutchison, who used his research chemist background to ensure that the latest advances in research found practical application in the gas light and hydrogen industry where he made his career.
The Hutchison Medal is awarded to provide recognition and encouragement to authors who put much time and intellectual effort into the production of papers covering practical or less technical topics. Hutchison Medal candidates usually come from the journals. They cannot come from The Chemical Engineer.
Suitable papers are shortlisted by the editors of relevant IChemE publications and are assessed by the Publication Medals Committee, who recommend a winner to the Medals and Prizes Committee for approval.
Criteria this medal will be judged against are:
- readability/presentation
- innovation
- potential to stimulate discussion
- usefulness of application.
Medal winners 2014—2025
- 2025 — A Kim, H Kim, Y D Chaniago, H Lim
Carbon dioxide removal from the oceans: Carbon dioxide emission and techno-economic analyses of producing renewable synthetic methane; Sustainable Production and Consumption - 2024 — H Wang, P Daoutidis, Q Zhang and Y Cui, J Liu, B Cong, X Han, S Yin
Ammonia-based green corridors for sustainable maritime transportation; Digital Chemical Engineering - 2023 — A Hicks, M Johnston, M Mowbray, M Barton, P Martin, D Zhang, A Lane, C Mendoza- Fernandez
A two-step multivariate statistical learning approach for batch process soft sensing; Digital Chemical Engineering - 2021 — S Greenwood, S Walker, H Baird, R Parsons, S Mehl, T Webb, A Slark, A Ryan, R Rothman
Many Happy Returns: Combining insights from the environmental and behavioural sciences to understand what is required to make reusable packaging mainstream; Sustainable Production and Consumption - 2020 — S Ghazal, Z Kang, S Ali Mehdi Naqvi, M Raza, S Salehi and C Teodoriu
Simulation-based training to enhance process safety in offshore energy operations: Process tracing through eye-tracking; Process Safety and Environmental Protection - 2019 — A Almena, P J Fryer, S Bakalis and E Lopez-Quiroga
Centralized and distributed food manufacture: A modelling platform for technological, environmental and economic assessment at different production scales; Sustainable Production and Consumption - 2018 — P Hunpinro, S Kohsria, A Meechai, C Prapainainar, P Narataruksa and G Sin
Design and preliminary operation of a hybrid syngas/solar PV/battery power system for off-grid applications: A case study in Thailand; Chemical Engineering Research and Design - 2017 — G M Campbell and D J Belton
Setting up new chemical engineering degree programmes: Exercises in design and retrofit within constraints; Education for Chemical Engineers - 2016 — R Moreno-Peñaranda, A Gasparatos, P Strömberg, A Suwa, A Hadi Pandyaswargo and J A Puppim de Oliveira
Sustainable production and consumption of palm oil in Indonesia: What can stakeholder perceptions offer to the debate?; Sustainable Production and Consumption - 2015 — K E Kakosimos
Example of a micro-adaptive instruction methodolody for the improvement of flipped-classrooms and adaptive-learning based on advanced blending-learning tools; Education for Chemical Engineers - 2014 — J Sacher, L Garcia-Llobodanin, F Lopez, H Segura and J R Perez-Correra
Dynamic modelling and simulation of an alembic pear wine distillation; Food and Bioproducts Processing
Medal winners 1991—2013
- 2013 — P Willliamson, D W R Wallace, C S Law, P Boyd, Y Collos, P Croot, K Denman, U Riebesell, S Takeda and C Vivian
- 2012 — R T Sousa, S Liu, L G Papageorgiou and N Shah
- 2011 — S J Puttick, H J Gibbon, G P Akroyd and A Brown
- 2010 — L Cusco, G Atkinson, D M Painter, V H Y Tam, K C Waterton, L C Shirvill, T A Roberts and I G Buckland
- 2009 — M J Prince, M A S Vigeant and K E K Nottis
- 2008 — N J L Gardener
- 2007 — B J Lowesmith, G Hankinson, M C Acton and G Chamberlain
- 2006 — J V F Berman and P Ackroyd
- 2005 — M Anderson
- 2004 — J E S Venart
- 2003 — H Z Kister
- 2002 — J P Gupta and D W Edwards
- 2001 — D I Hicks, B D Crittenden and A C Warhurst
- 2000 — P-M Choong and P N Sharratt
- 1999 — J A Wesselingh and A M Bollen
- 1998 — R G Smith and G C Maitland
- 1997 — J A Wesselingh
- 1996 — S E Taylor
- 1995 — S S Katti
- 1994 — G A Chamberlain
- 1993 — F Hjelm and S O Stommen
- 1992 — S Macchietto
- 1991 — J Wilday