Vince R. DooleyThe UOP Technology Award, established 1973, recognizes an outstanding achievement in the conception, design, or implementation of instrumentation and/or process control in an area of activity covered by the scope of the Society's Automation & Technology Department. The award was endowed by UOP, Des Plaines, Illinois, a Platinum Patron of ISA's Honors & Awards Program.
Vince R. DooleyAlcoa World Alumina, Attadale, Australia
For the development of specialized on-line instrumentation for the improvement in process control of the Bayer process for alumina refining.
Vince R. Dooley is a Senior Research Principal Engineer at Alcoa World Alumina. During the course of a significant career at Alcoa, Dooley has invented and implemented a range of sophisticated on-line analytical instruments for the company’s global alumina refining system. Dooley is credited with at least 3 inventions that have been included in the Alcoa-Honeywell-Quasar Advanced Process Control system. These key enablers for the overall control system won the Engineers Australia National Project Excellence Award in Automation, Control and Instrumentation in 2007.
Dooley is the author of "Mud level gauges - A Comparison of Techniques", published for the Fourth international alumina quality workshop, 1996. He holds a patent for Thickener Mud Gauge and has several patent applications pending for the on-line Bayer process liquor analyzer. Dooley holds a Bachelor of Technology (Electrical) from Queensland University of Technology and a New Zealand Certificate of Engineering (Mechanical).
The UOP Technology Award may be presented annually and carries a $1,000 honorarium and plaque. The presentation is made at the annual honors and awards program.
The award is open to any person. Each candidate's contribution should be judged on the basis of the following suggested criteria: technological originality; usefulness; and the successful implementation of principles involved.
Nomination of an individual for the UOP Technology Award is accepted from any individual. Nominations are made in writing on the appropriate form.
| 1973 F.K. Harris 1974 E.D.Mannherz 1974 R.F. Schmoock 1975 H.S. Harman 1976 E.R. Fenske 1977 R.L. Frick 1978 A.D. Kurtz 1979 I. Cherniack 1980 J.M Paros 1981 R. Villalobos 1982 L.J. Griffey 1983 V.V. Tivy |
1984 Not Awarded 1985 R. Dallimonti 1986 Not Awarded 1987 H.D. Baumann 1988 P.B. Jacob 1989 Yog-Zai Lu 1990 D.A. Krohn 1991 R. Gilmont 1992 T.P. Wang 1993 W.H. Wagner 1994 J.G. Converse 1995 K.L. Hopkins |
1996 J.J. McCarthy 1997 Not Awarded 1998 Not Awarded 1999 W.F. Bechtel 2000 V.A. Lauher 2001 L.H. Fricke 2002 D.W. Spitzer 2003 Not Awarded 2004 P. van Vuuren 2005 J.W. Harris 2006 C.R. Jones 2007 D.P. Mayeaux 2008 S.W. Allison |