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When High-Pressure and Catalytic Processes Became the Frontier

When High-Pressure and Catalytic Processes Became the Frontier [Pg.21]

German technology was a war prize. The war had also stimulated the U.S. chemical industry explosives to be sure, but most notably dyestuffs by Dow and Du Pont and nitrogen fixation and nitric acid manufacture by government-financed plants at Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Gasoline demand for [Pg.21]

Like nitrogen fixation on the eve of World War I, catalytic cracking had tremendous economic and geopolitical significance. Through 1943, Houdry units and after that fluidized bed units accounted for most of the aviation gasoline available to the United States and its allies in World War II. [Pg.24]

Between the wars, the growing numbers of continuous catalytic processes—in other manufactures as well as petroleum refining and petrochemicals—absorbed more and more chemical engineers. They brought incentives to focus as much on selective reactions of flowing fluids and suspensions as on the separations and particulate solids-processing methods that constituted the unit operations. They also became nuclei of all sorts of opportunities for the chemical engineering profession. [Pg.24]




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