Student Receives Best Paper Award at American Chemical Society National Meeting
November 21, 2008
Hyun Jae Kim, Ph.D. candidate in Energy and Mineral Engineering, received the Student Award for Best Paper at the Fall 2008 national meeting of American Chemical Society. Only one such award is selected by the ACS Petroleum Chemistry Division at each ACS national meeting.
The award is for the paper “Hybrid zeolite-supported Pd catalyst with high sulfur tolerance for low-temperature hydrogenation of aromatics in diesel fuels” that Kim presented at the American Chemical Society national meeting in New Orleans during April 3-7, 2008. The work by Hyun Jae focuses on a new concept for catalyst design towards low-temperature hydrotreating and dearomatization for producing ultra-clean diesel fuels in the future.
Kim’s advisor is Chunshan Song, director of EMS Energy Institute, professor of fuel science, professor of chemical engineering (courtesy), and Associate Director of Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment.