The AVN Blog

Parvez H. Wadia, D.Sc., vice president, strategic initiatives, formally accepted the national Earle B. Barnes Award for Leadership in Chemical Research Management from the American Chemical Society (ACS) on March 28, 2023, at a national ceremony alongside his peers. During his presentation, he reflected on leadership… Read More

A non-traditional vegetable oil was being considered for additional end uses, and AVN Corp. was asked to investigate processes to refine samples for evaluation. Selected absorbents were tested under a range of conditions for bleaching the oil. AVN Corp. also set up a specialized distillation column to carry out continuous… Read More

Mark Nunley is a principal engineer at AVN Corp. For World Engineering Day this Saturday, March 4th we wanted to get to know him a little better and to ask him a few questions about his career path. Here’s what he had to say: What made you want to become an… Read More

South Charleston, W.Va., January 20, 2022 – The National Energy Technology Laboratory’s (NETL) Energy Data eXchange (EDX) Development and Operations Team has received the U.S. Secretary of Energy’s Achievement Award. AVN Corp. (AVN) works closely with NETL on EDX, an online data laboratory built to streamline Department of Energy (DOE) and Fossil Energy… Read More

 A customer was interested in the properties of a family of co-polymers produced from ethylene and a selection of functionalized co-monomers. AVN set up a small 300 mL reactor to perform the polymerization under high ethylene pressure and prepared several small samples to prove the concept and evaluate the effects… Read More