Twenty-five years of chemical engineering progress; silver anniversary volume, American institute of chemical engineers / edited by Sidney D. Kirkpatrick. Contributors: W. L. Badger, A. V. H. Mory, Lawrence W. Bass [and others]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Contributor:

Kirkpatrick, Sidney D. (Sidney Dale), 1894-1973, editor.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chemical engineering--History.

Chemical engineering.

Chemistry, Technical--History.

Chemistry, Technical.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 373 pages : illustrations, diagrams ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Pub. by the Institute and for sale by D. Van Nostrand company, inc., 1933.

Contents:

Chemical engineering research, by A. D. Little.

Acids and heavy chemicals in retrospect, by Henry Howard.

Organic chemical industries of the United States have made most progress since 1908, by M. E. Putnam.

Solvents show striking advances since 1908, by F. C. Zeisberg.

Twenty-five years of progress in petroleum refining, by H. W. Sheldon.

Chemical engineering contributions to the electrochemical industries, by W. S. Landis.

Progress in the electrometallurgical industries, by F. C. Frary.

Advances in pulp and paper manufacture, 1908-1933, by G. A. Richter and W. B. VanArsdel.

Coal processing - its progress since 1908, by H. C. Portner.

Sugar industries (A). Progress in cane-sugar manufacture and refining, by G. P. Meade (B). Developments in beet-sugar processing, by R. W. Shafor.

High pressure synthesis - basis of new chemical engineering industries, by C. O. Brown.

Soap and glycerine industries advance their technology, by M. H. Ittner.

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Paints, varnishes and lacquers show many advances, by E. C. Holton.

Modern plastics - a new-old inudstry, by A. J. Weith and A. V. H. Mory.

Some phases of progress in vegetable oil production, by David Wesson.

Lime industry turns to chemical engineering, by W. D. Mount.

Glass manufacture changes from an art to a science, by J. C. Hostetter and A. E. Marshall.

Fractional distillation assumes more important role among chemical engineering operations, by E. H. Leslie and H. B. Coats.

Progress in evaporation in the United States in theory and practice, by W. L. Badger. Bibliography of articles on evaporation (p. 277-279)

Continuous mechanical separations in the chemical engineering industry, by J. V. N. Dorr.

Purification of water for sanitary and industrial uses, by S. T. Powell.

Stream pollution and waste disposal, by R. S. Weston.

A statistical survey of the chemical engineering industries, 1908-1933, by E. R. Weidlein and L. W. Bass.

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Notes:

On cover: 1908-1933.

OCLC:

1212585