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Connolly, J. F., Kandalic, G. A., Research and Development Dept., Amoco Oil Co., Naperville, 111., personal communication (1976)... 

Coal Liquefaction at Wilsonville. Starting ia 1974 the Advanced Coal Liquefaction R D Facihty at WilsonviUe, Alabama operated a 6 t/d pilot plant and studied various coal Hquefaction processiag schemes. The facihty, cosponsored by the DOE, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and Amoco Oil Co, was shut down ia early 1992. 

Amodel is a registered trademark of Amoco Oil Co., Ultramid is a registered trademark of BASF, Stanyl is a registered trademark of DSM, Zytel is a... 

KEITH McHENRY Chairman), Amoco Oil Company LESLIE BURRIS, Argonne National Laboratory ELTON J. CAIRNS, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory NOEL JARRETT, Alcoa Laboratories FREDERIC LEDER, Dowell Schlnmberger JOHN SHINN, Chevron Research Company REUEL SHINNAR, City College of New York PAUL B. WEISZ, University of Peimsylvania... 

FIGURE 6.7 Steps in oil shale retorting are shown. Oil shale is erushed and then heated in a retort to drive off the oil that is trapped in the roek. Any oil left behind, as well as partieulates returned to the process as the reeovered oil is processed, is burned to provide heat for the retorting. The oil that is recovered from the shale is chemically treated to produce synthetic crude for further processing in conventional refineries. Courtesy, Amoco Oil Company. 

FIGURE 6.10 Hydrotreating plant. Courtesy, Amoco Oil Company. 

Amoco Oil Company, private communication to API Subcommittee on Corrosion, 1976. 

Hazards of Water, booklet 1 (Chicago Amoco Oil Company, 1984), p. 20. 

Ultraforming A catalytic reforming process developed by Standard Oil of Indiana and licensed by Amoco Oil Company. The catalyst contains platinum and rhenium, contained in a swing reactor - one that can be isolated from the rest of the equipment so that the catalyst can be regenerated while the unit is operating. The first unit was commissioned in 1954. 

Chemistry Advisory Board, and others. Professor Burwell was a long-time consultant for Amoco Oil Company and was a consultant for the World Book Encyclopedia. 

Prior to polymerization, p-xylene is first oxidized to terephthalic acid (TA) or dimethyl terephtalate (DMT). These diacid or dimethyl ester monomers are then polymerized via a condensation reaction with ethylene glycol to form the polyester. Prior to the development of a method to purify TA to make purified terephtahc acid (PTA, >99% pure) by the Mid-Century Corporation in the 1950s [10], DMT was the primary way to obtain the purified dicarboxylate. The Amoco Oil Company, now part of BP International, made several improvements to the PTA process since its inception [11]. Since the advent of the availability of PTA, it has become the monomer of choice over DMT. PTA avoids the complications of including methanol to enable purification and handling the methanol evolved during the polymerization to polyester. 

Amoco Oil Research Department, Amoco Research Center, Naperville, IL 60566... 

Support of this work was provided by the Amoco Oil Co. We thank Dr. S. M. Kuznicki for providing a sample of ETS-10 and Dr. R. J. Davis for recording the UV-VIS diffuse reflectance spectrum of TS-1 samples. 

Acknowledgment is made to the donors of the Petroleum Research Fund, administered by the American Chemical Society, for partial support of this research. This work was also supported in part by National Science Foundation grant CPE-8315228. Finally, we wish to acknowledge support provided by Amoco Oil Company. 

How many of you are hunters How many of you enjoy killing the innocent creatures of the forest Actually, I used to go hunting once a year in Casper, Wyoming. At that time, I was working for Amoco Oil. So, once a year at the start of the antelope season, I found an excuse to visit Amoco s refinery in Casper. 

This research was sponsored in part by Amoco Oil Corporation. The research was also financed in part by the State of Delaware as authorized by the State budget Act of Fiscal Year 1988. We would like to acknowledge the help of Prof. Harold H. Schobert of the Pennsylvania State University for providing a sample of the Spanish lignite, and the help of Drs. Richard Markuszewski and Glenn A. Norton of Iowa State University for providing the high-sulfur New Zealand coal sample. 

I was fortunate enough to see some of the earlier versions and later I obtained a compilation of topics in Process Safety Booklets, 6th ed., 1984, Amoco Oil Company Refining and Engineering. The sixth edition was a hard-backed book that contained nine previously published booklets, but the newest series overshadows the previous editions. 

Catalysts. The commercial catalysts samples, all of similar composition, were supplied by AMOCO Oil. These contain MoO and CoO as hydrogenation components. The cracking component is a... 

This research was supported by the AMOCO Oil Company. We appreciate the assistance of R.J. Bertolacini, T.A. Kleinhenz and L.C. Gutberlet of AMOCO, and fruitful discussions with Professor Herman Pines. 

All catalyst characterizations except via ESR were carried out by AMOCO Oil and communicated to us by L.C. Gutberlet. 

This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-76ER02945. We are grateful to Amoco Oil Co., Naperville, Illnois, for furnishing the catalyst used in this work. 

Support of the Chemical Reaction Engineering Laboratory In which this work was performed by Amoco Oil, Monsanto Company and Shell Development Is truly appreciated. 

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