Hougen, Olaf

Hougen, Olaf. A., and Watson, Kenneth. M. 1947. Chemical Process Principles, vol. 3, 943-58. New York John Wiley Sons. 

Van Antwerpen, F. J. Hougen, Olaf Andreas, His Impact on Chemical... 

A similar nonlinear equation for heterogeneous catalytic systems was developed empirically by Olaf Hougen and Kenneth Watson and derived on a more scientific basis by Irving Langmuir and Cyril Hmshelwood. WTien applied to fluid reactants and solid catalysts, the nonlinear equation m its simplest form becomes... 

Olaf A. Hougen and Kenneth M Watson. Chemical process principles. Part 1. Material and energy balances. John Wiley and Sons (1943)... 

Olaf A Hougen, Kenneth M. Watson and Roland A. Ragatz. Chemical process principles Part 2 Thermodynamics. John Wiley and Sons. 1st edition (1947) 2nd edition. (1959). 

O. I Of Chemical Engineering and the Liberal Arts An Inaugural for the Olaf Hougen Visiting Professorship October 3, 1979... 

OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING AND THE LIBERAL ARTS AN INAUGURAL FOR THE OLAF HOUGEN VISITING PROFESSORSHIP OCTOBER 3, 1979... 

Another series was subsequently launched by John Wiley Sons, who also assembled a distinguished advisory board (Fig. 9), theirs consisting of Tom Chilton and his visionary subordinate, Tom Drew, from Du Pont, Donald B. Keyes of the University of Illinois, Kenneth M. Watson of Universal Oil Products near Chicago, and Olaf A. Hougen of the University of Wisconsin. The latter two authored in 1931 a salutary text on Industrial Chemical Calculations, precursor of their pivotal three volumes on Chemical Process Principles. Hougen and Watson held that process problems are primarily chemical and physicochemical in nature, whereas unit-operation problems are for the most part physical [46]. (Incidentally, Wiley Sons did not claim for their series even the second edition of Hitchcock and Robinson s book, which they published.)... 

On early doctorates, compare Olaf A. Hougen, Seven Decades of Chemical Engineering, Chem. Eng. Prog. 73,89-104 (January 1977) and J. O. Maloney, Doctoral Thesis Work in Chemical Engineering from the Beginning to 1960, pp. 211-223 in W. F. Furter, ed., A Century of Chemical Engineering [17]. On the state of the American chemical industry, see Williams Haynes, American Chemical Industry, Vol. 2, Van Nostrand, New York, 1945, Introduction. 

The Advisory Board is listed in the frontispiece of Olaf A. Hougen and Kenneth M. Watson, Industrial Chemical Calculations The Application of Physico-Chemical Principles and Data to Problems of Industry, Wiley, New York, 1931. Their later three volumes are Chemical Process Principles. Part One Material and Energy Balances, 1943 Part Two Thermodynamics, 1947 and Part Three Kinetics and Catalysis, 1947, all published by Wiley. 

Doraiswamy, L. K., Olaf A. Hougen Lecture, University of Wiseon-sin, Madison, WI (1987). 

Tracing the origins of concepts is difficult when the inchoate professions that are trying to appropriate them are in a state of flux, and, reflecting this, the intellectual features of chemical engineering up to 1939 have been described in various and inconsistent ways. Olaf Hougen and Franklin J. Van Antwerpen, for example, identify the unit operations... 

Van Antwerpen, op. cit. (3) Olaf A. Hougen, Seven decades of chemical engineering, Chemical Engineering Progress, 73 (1977), 89-104. 

Harold H. Kung is professor of chemical engineering at Northwestern University, where his areas of research include surface chemistry, catalysis, and chemical reaction engineering. His professional experience includes work as a research chemist at E.I. du Pont de Nemours Co., Inc. He is recipient of the P.H. Emmett Award and the Robert Burwell Lectureship Award from the North American Catalysis Society, the Herman Pines Award of the Chicago Catalysis Club, the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Eellowship, the John McClanahan Henske Distinguished Lectureship of Yale University, and the Olaf A. Hougen Professorship at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is editor of Applied Catalysis A General. He has a Ph.D. in chemistry from Northwestern University. 

Olaf A. Hougen and Kennith M. Wilson, Chemical Process Principles, Part One, Material and Energy Balances and Part Two, Thermodynamics (New York Wiley, 1943, 1947). 

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