Guan Xingya


Guan Xingya was a Chinese petroleum engineer, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He was the pioneer and technological founder of China's acrylonitrile catalyst and its complete process.

Biography

Guan was born in Fengtian, Fengtian Province, Manchukuo, on 7 February 1932. In 1951, he entered Jiaotong University, but transferred to Fudan University the next year.
After graduating in 1955, he was assigned to the Acetylene Chemistry Research Office of Shenyang Institute of Chemical Technology, and reassigned to the Petrochemistry Process Room of Shanghai Research Institute of Chemical Industry two years later. He moved up the ranks to become director of the Research Room 2 in June 1960 and deputy chief engineer in July 1981.
On 23 May 2023, he died of an illness in Shanghai, aged 92.

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