Innovations in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. A Century of Achievements and Prospects for the New Millennium

Content: 1. Putting Science to Work: A History of I&EC Leadership and Innovation in Its First Hundred Years. (Flank); 2. Ammonia Synthesis: Catalysts and Technologies. (Nielsen); 3. Innovation and Enterprise: The Industrial Gas Industry in the United States (Royal); 4. Polyethylene: An Account of Scientific Discovery and Industrial Innovation. (Patel); 5. The History of Petroleum Cracking in the 20th Century (Davis, Flank); 6. The History of Fluidized Catalytic Cracking (Fletcher); 7. Purification of Automotive Exhaust Through Catalysis (Rodkin); 8. Membrane Separation Technology: Past, Present and Future (Lipscomb); 9. Advanced Catalytic Materials for the Refining and Petrochemical Industry (Gaffney); 10. Evolving Production of the Acetyls, Acetic Acid, Acetaldehyde, Acetic Anhydride, and Vinyl Acetate: A Mirror for the Evolution of the Chemical Industry. (Zoeller); 11. Ionic Liquids: Growth of a Field Through the Eyes of the I&EC Division (Rogers); 12. Green Chemistry (Jessop, Warner)