Primed for Success: The Story of Scientific Design Company How Chemical Engineers Created the Petrochemical Industry /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Spitz, Peter H. (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Chemical engineering.; Leadership.; Chemistry-History.; Chemistry.; Technology-History.; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering.; Business Strategy/Leadership.; History of Chemistry.; Popular Science in Chemistry and Materials.; History of Technology.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.