British Institution of Chemical Engineers

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Ahmstbono, lecture before the British Institute of Chemical Engineers, Oct. 30, 1931. 

MacNab points out the need for extensive chemical engineering knowledge to enable this process to be effected since there is much associated equipment in the way of pipes, pumps, and valves to control correctly the corrosive liquids. At this time Sir Frederic L. Nathan had been Superintendent at the Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey for five years. He was the first of the scientific superintendents and was destined later to participate in the formation of the British Institution of Chemical Engineers. 

Almost all the information on costs available in the open literature is in American journals and refers to dollar prices in the US. Some UK equipment prices were published in the journals British Chemical Engineering and Chemical and Process Engineering before they ceased publication. The only comprehensive collection of UK prices available is given in the Institution of Chemical Engineers booklet, IChemE (2000). 

I am grateful to the Institution of Chemical Engineers for inviting me to present this year s Danckwerts Lecture. It is well known that a professor loves nothing more than an audience. I am keenly aware of the definition given by the British-American poet, Auden, who said that while many people talk in their sleep, a professor is someone who talks in other people s sleep. 

Fourth Joint Chemical Conference of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, September 9-12, 1973. 

AFNOR Association Frangaise de Normalisation AlChE American Institute of Chemical Engineers ASME American Society of Petroleum Engineers AWS American Welding Society BSl British Standards Institute GPA Gas Processors Association... 

G.A. Lunn, Guide to Dust Explosion Prevention and Protection, Part 3 - Venting of Weak Explosions and the Effect of Vent Ducts, Institution of Chemical Engineers, British Materials Handling Board, U.K., 1990. 

Hinchley, John William (1871-1931) A British chemical engineer and one of the founders of the Institution of Chemical Engineers. He was the first professor of chemical engineering at Imperial College, London whose aims and ideas for the development of chemical engineering were embodied in his teaching. 

Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland, department of Chemistry, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 1 19991, Moscow, Russia, 3Urology Department, University Hospital (CHUV) CH-1011, Lausanne, Switzerland, 4Angiogenesis Laboratory, Department of Medical Oncology, VU University Medical Center 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3065, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 3V6, Canada. 

Some evidence of the interplay of these two channels of influence can be seen through major textbook adoptions that existed in Canadian chemical engineering departments. In the immediate post-war years widespread use of Brown s Unit Operations was displaced to only a very limited degree by the textbook by Foust, but in a number of institutions by considerable use of the British volumes by Coulson and Richardson. In the field of chemical engineering thermodynamics there also has been moderate use of Denbigh s text. In other areas, American textbooks predominate. 

After working at the Department of Synthetic Chemistry of the University of Tokyo as a staff assistant and at the Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of California as a postdoctoral research associate, he joined the National Research Council of Canada in 1969. He came to the University of Ottawa in 1992 as a professor and the chairholder of the British Gas/NSERC Industrial Research Chair. He served as a professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering and the director of the Industrial Membrane Research Institute (IMRI) until he retired in 2002. He was appointed to professor emeritus in 2003. He served also at the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering of the National University of Singapore as a visiting professor during the period of January to December 2003. 

Vessel Codes Other Than ASME Different design and construction rules are used in other countries. Chemical engineers concerned with pressure vessels outside the United States must become familiar with local pressure-vessel laws and regulations. Boilers and Pressure Vessels, an international survey of design and approval requirements published by the British Standards Institution, May-lands Avenue, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England, in 1975, gives pertinent information for 76 political jurisdic tions. 

David P. Wilkinson received his BASc degree in chemical engineering from the University of British Columbia in 1978 and his PhD degree in chemistry from the University of Ottawa in 1987. In 2004, after 20 years of industrial experience. Dr. Wilkinson was awarded a Tier 1 Canada research chair in clean energy and fuel cells in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of British Columbia. He presently maintains a joint appointment with the university and the Canadian National Research Council Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation. 

Department of Chemical Biological Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada 2 Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada... 

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