DOW Sustainability

Award
The Dow Chemical Company

Sustainability
Award 2017
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Target: Students enrolled in the MEESE Master
Dow’s Strategic Alignment: Dow’s Sustainability Goals
Rationale:
 Students are exposed to an “open problem / improvement need”
 The participants, organized in teams, have to put into action
their technical, methodological and organizational skills to find out
the best/breakthrough solution related to energy efficiency/
resource optimization/process improvement/logistics
streamlining, etc.
 Embedded within the subject “Eco‐efficient process design”

Award: Scholarship for the 2nd course fees in Master MEESE

Evaluation Committee: EH&S / Supply Chain / Manufacturing /
Engineering SME’s plus (1 or 2) ETSEQ Members
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Award Basics
Technical Report:
 Must be written in English
 25 pages maximum

Project Defense:
 Must be done in English
 Maximum Available Time of 20 minutes

Team Composition:
 4 (5) members
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Timeline
Terms & Conditions of the Call:

Team formation: November 2017. To be proposed by the professors of the

subject “Eco‐efficient process design”.

Project Submission deadline: 31st May. Send to Jose Manuel Muro

(JMURO@dow.com).

Project Defense: Week 11‐15th June

Award Publication: End of June

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Award Ceremony of the 4th Edition of DOW 
Sustainability Award, course 2015‐2016

Award Ceremony of the 5th Edition, course 2016‐2017, 
will be held on the 24th November
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2017 Topic
Design of a chemical plant for the production of 100,000
tons/year of acrylonitrile
- Use of renewable raw materials
- Life cycle assessment (GaBI)
- Energy integration of the plant

Link with DOW 2025 Sustainability Goals:

Increasing Advancing a World Leading

Confidence in Circular Operations
Chemical Economy Performance
Technology
http://www.dow.com/en-us/science-and-
sustainability/2025-sustainability-goals
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The winning team will win:

4 Scholarships to cover ca. 2nd year registration fees

 Possibility of making an internship in DOW during 2nd year