Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering

Fifteen prominent chemical engineers first met in New York more than 60 years ago to plan a continuing literature for their rapidly growing profession. From industry came such pioneer practitioners as Leo H. Baekeland, Arthur D. Litde, Charles L. Reese, John V. N. Dorr, M. C. Whitaker, and R. S. McBride. From the universities came such eminent educators as William H. Walker, Allred H. White, D. D. Jackson, J. H. James, Warren K. Lewis, and Harry A. Curtis. H. C. Parmelee, then editor of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, served as chairman and was joined subsequently by S. D. Kukpatrick as consulting editor. 

Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. 

Turnock, P. H., "The Separation of Nitrogen and Methane by Pulsating Flow Through a Fixed, Molecular Sieve Bed" Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. of Michigan, Dept, of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering Ann Arbor, MI, 1968. 

Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering Department, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202... 

A series of articles, "Studies in Evaporator Design, by W. L. Badger, has also been published in 1920 and 1921 in Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, Badger gives experimental data with special reference to the horizontal-tube evaporator. 

Recently another system of evaporation has been developed in Europe, in which vapors coming from the evaporator are compressed in a multi-stage turbo-compressor, and then returned into the steam chest at higher temperature. It is claimed that under certain conditions, the fuel consumption of a single effect is less than that of a quadruple effect. For detailed information, see an article by Carlsson in Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, Apr. 13, 1921, p. 645. 

The Chemical Process Industries by Shreve (15) contains many flow sheets with quantitative data. That book was published in 1945 and a revision is underway. There is now being written, for 1953 publication, the Chemical Business Handbook 12) in which one of the co-editors, J. R. Skeen, has very carefully recalculated and arranged in tabular form all the available unit consumption factors that he can find. For many years Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, now called Chemical Engineering, has published separately a book of flow sheets. The last edition was revised by Olive and Shreve (II). Nine-tenths of these flow sheets with comments are in Chemical Process Industries (15). 

Olive, T. R., and Shreve, R. N., Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering s Chemical Engi-... 

Chemical Engineering, monthly with annual review issue (usually January or February issue). Frequent surveys of major chemicals. Annual review issue gives data on production and consumption pattern of major chemicals. Formerly Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering. 

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