Students awarded

For Innovation Day, January 20 in Porvoo, Finland, Borealis announced the two winners of the Student Innovation Award 2010. Introduced in 2008, the Award recognises the most innovative research papers on polyolefins, olefins or melamine by master's or doctoral degree students.
Vassileios Touloupides, from Greece, won the prize for his research on "Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of an Industrial α-Olefins Catalytic Slurry Loop Reactor Series."
At the master's degree level, Jukka Rasanen from Finland won the Award for his master's thesis "Optimisation of the Recovery Section of a Polyolefin Catalyst Manufacturing Process."
The next edition of the award will take place this year; applications are already being taken.