British Oxygen Company

Hydrogen of 99.99% purity, supplied by the British Oxygen Company, was employed. 

Chemicals. Synthesis gas, as an equimolar mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, was purchased from either Air Products Ltd or British Oxygen Company Ltd. Ru(acac)3 was purchased from Johnson Matthey Chemicals Ltd and used without further purification Ru3(C0)j2 Rh6(C0)i6 and Rh(C0)2acac were prepared according to literature procedures (10-12). Glacial acetic acid and the various additives/promoters were purchased from BDH Ltd and used without further purification. Tetraglyme (ex-Aldrich Chemical Company Ltd) was dried over activated 3A molecular sieves before use. 

Union Carbide, British Oxygen Company etc. (Appendix 3). 

Question by D. H. Tantam, British Oxygen Company, Ltd. The efficiencies given appear high, bearing in mind (1) the high gas inertia in the flow passages within the piston and (2) the throttling which occurs with piston-operated parts. Are the efficiency values for the gas expansion process alone, or for the overall machine ... 

Odda Smelteverk never used the process itself, however, but licenced it to I.G. Farben, Staatsmijneh of the Netherlands, as well as to Norsk Hydro. Odda stayed in its oldest businesses, that of producing calcium carbide and cyanamide. Neither did Odda s owner, the Hafslund group, use the Odda process. In 1937 it sold Odda Smelteverk along with the Odda process to the British Oxygen Company. 

It all benefitted Norsk Hydro, however. While Odda was completely honest about its technical knowledge, Norsk Hydro tried to circumvent the Odda process patent. After negotiations fell through in 1933, three leaders of Odda summed up their bitter experiences Norsk Hydro had not made any serious offer, but seemed to have wanted to postpone the matter and to get hold of all possible information, information that is now used to circumvent the Odda process. " " Even though Norsk Hydro clearly exploited the economic difficulties of Odda at the time, it is possible to understand why, since Odda s real plans had been to collaborate with American Cyanamid Company, in all probability as a competitor to Norsk Hydro. In any case, Norsk Hydro was in a very vulnerable position itself, also hit by the crisis it was only in 1929 that it completed restructuring to produce nitrogen fertiliser by the Haber-Bosch process. In the end, Odda did very little. Odda Smelteverk was sold to the British Oxygen Company in late 1937, and the Odda process was licenced to I.G. Farben in 1938, to Dutch Staats Mijnen in 1939, and eventually to Norsk Hydro after the war. 

In 1906, Linde licensed his patents to Brin s Oxygen Company (BOC) in exchange for company shares and a seat on the board of directors. (The company later changed its name to the British Oxygen Company.) In 1907, BOC (as Linde s licensee) and Claude s Air Liquide were involved in a series of patent disputes that culminated in settlements that permitted their respective companies to thrive. Linde also enforced his patents against both German and Swiss competitors. 

Cecil Lightfoot was the son of T.B. Lightfoot, who became a director of the British Oxygen Company. 

British Oxygen Company Ltd, Safe Under Pressure, Guidelines for all who use BOC Gases in Cylinders, Ilritish Oxygen Company, Guildford, Surrey (1993)... 

Question by P. M, Schuftan, British Oxygen Company, London Does one impact value obtained with liquid oxygen... 

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