IChemE Global Award 2025 - Innovative Process Award
SD Guthrie Research won the IChemE Global Award 2025 and IChemE Malaysia Awards 2025 in the Innovative Process Award category for their project on “RAPID Tank: Redefining Clarification for the Future of Palm Oil Mills”.
This award recognises the most innovative chemical engineering process to be implemented commercially in the last four years. The IChemE Global Awards are widely recognised as the world’s most prestigious chemical engineering awards.
RAPID tank is a novel, patented, clarification system that uses a horizontal design with internal rods to separate oil from sludge far more efficiently than traditional vertical clarifiers. It significantly accelerates clarification, eliminates the MOH (Mineral Hydrocarbon) critical point, strengthens operational safety, streamlines maintenance requirements, and upholds higher standards of oil cleanliness. SD Guthrie currently operates 11 units across its mills, deployed as standalone systems, in RAPID+ with HSS, or in RAPID SORS configurations.