Jim White named to ORCS (Organic Reactions Catalysis Society) board of directors
Jim White
Dr. White joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in 2002 after more than 30 years of diverse industrial catalyst R&D, technical service and manufacturing experience. The last 14 years of his industrial experience was with Engelhard Corp's Chemical Catalyst Division. Prior to joining Engelhard, Dr. White worked in various R&D and management capacities at PPG Industries, Sohio (now BP) and Air Products. At PNNL he has been responsible for program management of several DOE and Battelle corporately funded programs, is involved with liaison between PNNL and several current and potential CRADA partners and is responsible for mentoring and advising of staff and clients in the area of catalyst synthesis, rapid catalyst discovery via combinatorial methods, catalyst scale up and characterizations, process development, catalyst and catalyst and process testing and IP identification, generation and capture. His industrial experience involved catalyst discovery, catalyst development, catalyst scale up and manufacturing, technical service and transitioning new discoveries from lab to a manufacturing environment. He is also keenly interested in catalyst characterization as a tool to design better catalysts and the design and optimization of catalytic processes. His personal accomplishments include helping to design, develop and bring to commercial reality several different catalysts and catalytic processes. He is a named author on over 100 USA and foreign patents, has been an invited speaker at catalyst conferences, and is a co-author of over one dozen peer reviewed publications. Dr. White's hands-on industrial catalyst experience also includes selective oxidation, selective reductions, Ziegler stereo-specific polymerizations, dehydrogenations, aminations, zeolite chemistry, design of improved oxide and carbon based catalyst supports, development of new precious metal catalysts, para-ortho hydrogen conversion, living organometallic polymerizations, ammoxidation, transition metal carbonyl chemistry, catalysis at extreme hydrothermal conditions, alkylation and acetylization, NMP synthesis, ammonia and syngas catalysis, and selective adsorptions for separations and various biomass catalytic conversions. Dr. White served as a session chair for the 2006 ORCS meeting in Orlando, FL and has been elected to ORCS board of directors for a team ending in 2010. His major activity in that capacity is outreach.
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