Papin, Denis

Denys Papin s steam engine, France. Reciprocating steam engine developed by Thomas Newcomen (English). 

The wide diversity and the large number of apparatuses used for investigations and processing of reactions in SCFs make a systematization difficult. They have been developed during the time from the first digester by Denys Papin in 1680 to Ipatiev s high-pressure bomb [198] and up to the first... 

It is believed that the French scientist Denis Papin was the inventor of the Safety Valve, which he first applied to his newly developed steam digester at the end of the seventeenth century. Safety Valves were indeed designed and used for many years mainly for steam applications or distillation installations throughout Europe (Figure 1.1). 

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British physicist and chemist Robert Boyle (r.) and Denis Papin (I.) inspect Papin s steam digester. 

Figure 1.1-6 The digester made by Denys Papin in 1680 [72], The first vessel of Cagniard de LaTour was based on this design (Oxford University Press).

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