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Hendershot, D. C. (1991a). Design of Inherently Safer Chemical Processing Facilities. Texas Chemical Council Safety Seminar, june 11,1991, Galveston, TX, Session D. 

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In the absence of effective outside supervision, the chemical industry understood that responsibility for control of its pollution now fell primarily on its own shoulders. In April 1954, it marked the twin themes of its rapid postwar expansion and its assumption of the burden of environmental protection by convening a Southern Industrial Wastes Conference in Houston. The newly formed Texas Chemical Council and the Southern Association of Science and Industry joined the Manufacturing Chemists Association as sponsors of this gathering. Some 250 pollution specialists, almost all of them chemical company employees, were in attendance. 

In parallel he was also Director, State of Texas Energy Council, from 1973 to 1975, and consultant to a number of firms in the oil industry. He was the recipient of the 1974 Research Award Alpha Chi Sigma, and of the 1989 Kem Research Award. He was from 1978 a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1977. 

We would like to thank Dr. K. O Brien, Dow Chemical USA, Walnut Creek Research Center, CA Dr. G. R. Husk, U.S. Army Research Office, Research Triangle Park, NC and Prof. W.J. Koros, University of Texas, Austin for synthesizing and preparing the PMDA and 6FDA based polyimide films used in the Structural Effects sections of this paper. This work was supported in part by the Stanford Institute for Manufacturing and Automation. P. S. M. would like to thank the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada for a postdoctoral fellowship. 

G.F. Froment is a Doctor Honoris Causa of the Technion, Haifa, Israel (1985), of the University of Nancy, France (2001) and an Honorary Professor of the Universidad Nacional de Salta (Argentina). He is a member of the Belgian Academy of Science (1984), the Belgian Academy of Overseas Science (1977), a Foreign Associate of the United States National Academy of Engineering (1999) and a member of the Texas Academy of Medicine, Science and Engineering (2003). He was a member of the Scientific Council of the French Petroleum Institute (1989-1997), of the Technological Council of Rhone-Poulenc (1988-1997) and has intensively consulted for the world s major petroleum and (petro) chemical companies. 

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