Shells, chemical research

Anonymous (1958) New direction of development for the Chiai (Taiwan) solvents works (in Chinese) Petroleum Communications China Petroleum Corporation, Taiwan China May, Issue 83, pp 6-7 Anonymous (1996a) Chemical profile propylene glycol. Chem Mark Rep 249 37 Anonymous (1996b) Facts and figures for the chemical industry production by the US chemical industry. Chem Eng News June 24, 41 Anonymous (1997) Facts and figures for the chemical industry — production mixed in 1996. Chem Eng News June 23, 41 Anonymous (1999a) Shell Chemicals Research Team wins ACS 2000 award for innovation. Chem Mark Rep 256... 

The next major discovery in this field, which was the result of a joint research effort in 1968 between M and T Chemicals, Inc., and the Dow Chemical Company in the United States (475, 524), was that tricyclo-hexyltin hydroxide ("Plictran ) possesses a very high activity against certain types of mites, and this compound was subsequently introduced by Dow as an acaricide for use on apple, pear, and citrus-fruit trees. A second triorganotin acaricide, bis(trineophyltin) oxide ("Vendex or "Torque ), has recently been introduced by Shell Chemical Company (476). Two other tricyclohexyltin compounds are currently under de-... 

CDHydro [Catalytic distillation hydrogenation] A process for hydrogenating diolefins in butylene feedstocks. It combines hydrogenation with fractional distillation. Developed by CDTECH, a partnership between Chemical Research Licensing Company and ABB Lummus Crest. The first plant was built at Shell s Norco, LA, site in 1994. Ten units were operating in 1997. 

Chuah, H. H., Vinson, R. W. and Ulzelmeier, C. W., The Kinetics of Poly(Propylene Terephthalate) Solid-state Polymerization in Research Awareness Bulletin, Shell Chemical Company, July 1993, Houston, TX, pp. 101-103. 

J. he element columbium (niobium) was discovered in 1801 by the English chemist Charles Hatchett, who was bom in London in 1765. As a young man in his thirties he engaged actively in chemical research, and published in the Philosophical Transactions an analysis o lead molybdate from Carinthia and the results of some experiments on shell and bone (2), and in Nicholson s Journal an analysis of an earth from New South Wales called Sydneia, or Terra Australis (81). 

The authors are grateful to Paul Rempp of the Centre de Recherches sur les Macromolecules, Strasbourg, France, for generously supplying the diblock copolymers used in this study. Homopolymers were supplied by Shell Chemical and Phillips Petroleum. Support for this research was provided by the Office of Naval Research and by the Petroleum Research Fund, administered by the American Chemical Society. The Rheometrics Mechanical Spectrometer used in this study was obtained through the support of the RIAS Program of the National Science Foundation. 

David Morgan is a member of the Chemical Ecology Group at Keele University. He was bom in Newfoundland and had his university education there, at Dalhousie University and University of King s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and at Oxford. His doctorate thesis was on the lipids of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. He later worked at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, and for Shell Chemical Company and Shell Research under the direction of Sir Robert Robinson, O.M., Nobel Laureate. From 1966 he has been at Keele in Staffordshire as lecturer, senior lecturer, reader, and professor. He discovered the natural pesticide azadirachtin and collaborated with S. V. Ley for its final structure elucidation. He is the author of over 300 papers and reviews, mostly on insect chemistry, editor, and contributor to several volumes and author of the book Biosynthesis in Insects. ... 

Shell Chemical Corp., Concentrated Hydrogen Peroxide , Summary of Research Data on Safety Limitations, 1961. 

AE and AES samples were commercial or developmental ENORDET surfactants from Shell Chemical Company except for AES 810-2.6 supplied by GAF Corporation. AESo and AEGS surfactants were experimental research samples synthesized in our laboratories or were supplied by Koninlijke/Shell Laboratorium Amsterdam with the exception of AESo 911-2.5, 911-3.25, 911-4, and 1215-12 obtained from Diamond Shamrock Corporation. 

Alcohol ethoxylates and alcohol ethoxylate derivatives were chosen for study based on their predicted foaming properties, thermal and chemical stability, salinity tolerance, and adsorption characteristics. Table 1 illustrates the classes of surfactants used and the shorthand surfactant naming system employed. Except when noted, surfactants were developmental ENORDET surfactants from Shell Chemical Company or were research samples synthesized in our laboratory or at Koninlijke/Shell Laboratorium, Amsterdam. AES 810-2.6A was obtained from GAF Corporation. 

Received for review April 22, 1952. Pre.sented before the Division of Chemical Literature, Symposium on Literature Sources for Chemical Market Research, at the 121st Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Buffalo, N. Y. The authors were with the Chemical Division of NPA when this paper was prepared, Mr. Colten as a WOC from Shell Chemical Co. 

The authors are grateful to the National Research Council of Canada for the financial support for this work. Thanks are also due to the Shell Chemical Co., Houston and the DuPont Chemical Co., Kingston for providing sample polymers for the research. 

The activities of Shell took place both in neutral Holland, and in Britain and, to a smaller extent, in Germany, from 1906. Then, a year before their merger, both the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and Shell began research and development on so-called aromatic intermediates (i.e., simple chemicals which can be converted into more complex substances, such as explosives and dyes) from petroleum. Three years later, a production unit for nitrobenzene and nitrotoluene(s) came into operation at a site near Diisseldorf, Germany. During the war, research in the Netherlands intensified and extended to the conversion of nitrocompounds into dyestuffs and explosives. TNT factories were erected in Britain and The Netherlands, and serious attempts were made to establish a synthetic dye business. After the war, however, work on these aromatic chemicals appeared to be of no commercial value, and in 1919, Shell s board of directors stopped research and production in these fields. Therefore, at first glance, it seems that these war time activities were without significance for the future of the company. 

The tone of the letter shows the self-confidence of the managers of Royal Dutch/Shell and their awareness that they were taking very crucial decisions. Indeed, there have been few years in the history of Royal Dutch/Shell more important than 1927. Within a year, no less than six important steps had been taken by the Anglo-Dutch Group, which together drove the company forward in the direction of petrochemicals. These were (1) the enlargement of the Group s research laboratories in Amsterdam, and the formation of a new department for chemical research ... 

Acknowledgments This research has been supported over the years by NSF, the Louisiana Board of Regents through their Industrial Ties programs, and the following companies Hoechst Celanese, Arco Chemical, Albemarle, Ferro, Eastman Chemical, Sasol North America, and current funding from Dow Chemical. Additionally, the team leader had excellent discussions and interactions with hydroformylation experts at Union Carbide (now Dow), ExxonMobil, and Shell Chemical. 

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