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Keith W. McHenry, JR.
Keith W. McHenry, JR.
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Keith joined Amoco in 1955 as an assistant project chemical engineer in the Research and Development Department at Whiting, Indiana. While in this position, Keith made significant contributions to Amoco's research in the catalytic cracking and demetalation of reduced crudest He was promoted to group leader in 1958 and supervised several discoveries, which led to Amoco patents, some of which dramatically increased the yield of gasoline from crude oil.
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In 1974 Keith moved to Amoco's Research and Development Department in Naperville, Illinois, first as manager of process research and one year later as vice-president. During his fifteen years in this position, Keith oversaw a number of innovations, including the development of long-lasting synthetic oils for automobiles, the development and successful operation of proprietary catalyst system and process configuration for upgrading vacuum resiclual oils, en cl clevelopments that lecl to refinery units for hydroprocessing catalytic cracking feedstocks en c!
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Keith was a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Petroleum Institute, and the Catalysis Society, and he was selected as a fellow to the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. In 1988 Keith received the Award in Chemical Engineering Practice from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers for his contributions to the petroleum industry.
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Keith was convinced of the need to provide strong engineering education, and he acted on these convictions. He wrote, "The future of American industry- and the future of the nation will clepencI on our success in educating the people we must have to develop and implement new technology in an increasingly technological world." Keith McHenry had an impact on chemical engineering from a variety of dimensions.
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