Standard Oil Company of Indiana

Isoforming A process for increasing the octane rating of thermally cracked gasolines by catalytic isomerization over silica/alumina. Terminal alkenes are thus converted to nonterminal alkenes. Developed by Standard Oil Company of Indiana in the 1940s. 

The methanesulfonic acid is a commercial product supplied by the Standard Oil Company of Indiana and reported to be 95% pure and to contain 2% water. 

Present address Standard Oil Company of Indiana, Whiting, Indiana. 

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A semicommerdal plant based on this process was built and operated for the Manhattan I oject by the Standard Oil Company of Indiana [C4]. In 1953, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission authorized construction of a larger plant at Niagara Falls, New York, with the Hooker Electrochemical Company as operating contractor [M3]. This plant produced 460 kg/year of B at an enrichment of 92 a/o B. The plant was shut down in January 1958. Eagle Picher Industries, Inc., has been producing 6 at Quapaw, Oklahoma, by this process since 1973 and is expanding capacity to 1000 kg/year. The cost is from 5 to 15/g. 

Standard Oil Company of Indiana, Wood tUver, 111. Heptene Nonene Isooctyl alcohols Primary decyl alcohols 10,000,000... 

M.I.T. s School of Chemical Engineering Practice, and as Assistant Director of the Research Laboratory of Apphed Chemistry until 1925. After nine years with the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, he left his position as Associate Director of Research to take the reins as head of the Chemical Engineering Department at M.I.T., a post he held until 1961. 

Other kinds of coordination catalytic systems developed few years before the Ziegler-Natta catalysts were based on chromium and molybdenum oxides supported on SiOj AI2O3 and other supports. The catalysts were patented by Phillips Petroleum and Standard Oil companies of Indiana for the synthesis of polyolefins. Although Phillips catalysts were the first to produce a fraction of crystalline polypropylene, these systems were more useful for the production of polyethylene. In fact, the Phillips and the Ziegler-Natta catalysts are currently the two commercial systems that dominate the production of HDPE [2]. 

U. S. Army Research Office, Standard Oil Company of Indiana, The Eastman Kodak Company and the Fulbright-Hayes Foundation is gratefully acknowledged. We also wish to thank Dr. J. C. Kauer of the duPont Co. for help with the cycloaddition reaction of 1-acetoxy-2,3-butadiene and acrylonitrile, and Dr. R. B. Bates for helpful discussions. 

Interestingly, Halliburton was apparently unaware of a patent application filed onMarch 16,1933, byjesse Russell Wilson ofthe Standard Oil Company of Indiana. This patent concerned the use of HF for treating sandstone formations. " Another patent application was filed the same day by James G. Vandergrift, employing a mixture of mineral acid and HF. ... 

At about the same time that news of the Ziegler discovery was released, the Phillips Petroleum Company in the United States atmounced that it had developed a medium-pressure, catalytic process (500 psig) to produce a high-density, crystalline polyethylene. The process was discovered when traces of ethylene in a flue gas had polymerized over conventional cracking catalysts. The Phillips catalyst contained chromic oxide supported on silica. The Standard Oil Company of Indiana (later Amoco) also introduced a medium pressure process using a catalyst comprising molybdenum oxide supported on carbon or alumina, but it did not enjoy the success of the Ziegler or Phillips processes and was only operated in three full-scale plants. ... 

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