Primed for Success: The Story of Scientific Design Company How Chemical Engineers Created the Petrochemical Industry
This is the remarkable story of an entrepreneurial firm that helped to create the petrochemical industry as we know it today. The author also highlights the important role chemical engineers played in developing and commercializing new technologies based on the conversion of hydrocarbons into petroc...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2019, 2019
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- The global industry is poised for change
- Fuels and Chemicals Research help win World War II
- Three entrepreneurs join forces
- Conditions are perfect: A new industry grows rapidly
- Scientific Design becomes successful
- The big breakthrough: Mid Century Process
- More inventions: Nylon intermediates, Isoprene, Propylene Oxide
- Other firms: A period of breakthrough inventions
- The leading engineering firm for petrochemicals
- Oxirane and the formation of Halcon International
- A reach too far
- An Ending
- Epilogue