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Reimagine What's Possible
Job Description and Qualifications
At Air Products, our purpose is to bring people together to reimagine what's possible, collaborate and innovate solutions to the world's most significant energy and environmental sustainability challenges. Grow with us as we embark on building tomorrow together by being the safest, most diverse, and most profitable industrial gas company in the world.
Reimagine What's Possible
Roles and Responsibilities:
We are seeking a Research Chemist within our Air Separation Technology team located at our Corporate Headquarters in Allentown, PA.
The Air Separation Technology team provides technical expertise in the field of oxygen, nitrogen and rare gases production with the added mission of innovating new technologies that improve cost competitiveness, efficiency, productivity and/or on-stream availability of Air Products' offerings. A secondary purpose of the team is to provide high level support and troubleshooting capabilities for our operating plants. The team comprises of a diverse & inclusive set of individuals who look to deliver competitive cryogenic technology, adsorbent technology, materials chemistry, and vessel/equipment design advancements for all our products, including distillation column design, structured packing, heat exchangers, reboilers, and column internals. The research engineers in the team display strong inter-personal skills and work together with the entire Air Separation Technology and Product Line teams to deliver full plant solutions from the laboratory to the field.
This position requires a research chemist with a strong background in experimental design and materials/process chemistry. The candidate will need to work with the Product Line and other Technology organizations to develop novel and often, patentable process chemistry (development, optimization and scale up) of materials used in Air Separation and Hydrogen plants and technologies to either progress into a product offering or implement immediately in a project. This role requires the candidate to have innovative and out-of-the-box thinking to generate differentiating and valuable ideas. The role also requires good organizational skills and discipline in driving development efforts towards completion using the rigorous stage-gate approach. This role also requires the candidate to successfully develop university/industrial partnerships as means to further develop materials of interest. Additionally, the role requires strong thermodynamic and chemistry of materials fundamentals and a sense of practicality to guide idea screening and technology development. The successful candidate needs to be comfortable with ambiguity and complexity, have a positive attitude, and be self-motivated with a strong sense of project ownership.
Nature and Scope:
This is an individual contributor technologist role with a focus of materials/process chemistry and new technology development for a variety of air separation, green hydrogen technologies which may include electrolysis/electrochemistry, ammonia cracking, hydrogen liquefaction etc, and blue hydrogen technologies which may include Partial Oxidation (POx), Autothermal Reforming (ATR), Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCS) applications. We will look to this technologist to provide leadership in materials chemistry related processes across the Technology Organization. The ideal candidate should have demonstrated experience in designing and optimizing process chemistry solutions using experimental and or/theoretical approaches utilizing an appropriate combination of absorption, adsorption, reaction and heat exchange unit operations. Prior experience in design and characterization of new materials, scale-up, and troubleshooting of air separation/hydrogen production processes, although not required, can be a desirable differentiating qualification.
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