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Title Innovations in industrial and engineering chemistry : a century of achievements and prospects for the new millennium / William H. Flank, Martin A. Abraham, Michael A. Matthews, [editors] ; sponsored by the ACS Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Inc
Published Washington, DC : American Chemical Society ; [New York] : Distributed by Oxford University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 469 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series ACS symposium series ; 1000
ACS symposium series ; 1000.
Contents Putting science to work: a history of I & EC leadership and innovation in its first hundred years / William H. Flank -- Ammonia synthesis: catalyst and technologies / Svend Erik Nelson -- Innovation and enterprise: the industrial gases industry in the United States / John Royal -- Polyethylene: an account of scientific discovery and industrial innovations / Rajen M. Patel [and others] -- The history of petroleum cracking in the 20th century / Alan W. Peters, William H. Flank, and Burtron H. Davis -- The history of fluidized catalytic cracking: a history of innovation from 1942 to 2008 / R.P. Fletcher -- Purification of automatic exhaust through catalysis / M. Rodkin [and others] -- Membrane separation technology: past, present, and future / G. Glenn Lipscomb -- Advanced catalytic materials for the refining and petrochemical industry: TUD-1 / Phillip J. Angevine [and others] -- Evolving production of the acetyls (acetic acid, acetaldehyde, acetic anhydride, and vinyl acetate): a mirror for the evolution of the chemical industry / Joseph R. Zoeller -- Ionic liquids: growth of a field through the eyes of the I & EC division / Héctor Rodríguez, Gabriela Gurau, and Robin D. Rogers -- The twelve principles of green chemistry / Philip G. Jessop, Sofia Trakhtenberg, and John Warner
Analysis Chemical engineering Congresses
Notes Title from PDF title page (ACS publications, viewed July 31, 2009)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Chemical engineering -- Congresses
SCIENCE -- Chemistry -- Industrial & Technical.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Chemical & Biochemical.
Chemical engineering
Génie chimique -- Congrès.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Flank, William H.
Abraham, Martin A., 1961-
Matthews, Michael A.
American Chemical Society. Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry.
ISBN 0841224870
9780841269637
0841269637
9780841224872