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One Hundred Years of Chemical Engineering

From Lewis M. Norton (M.I.T. 1888) to Present

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Nikolaos A. Peppas

    1. School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

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Part of the book series: Chemists and Chemistry (CACH, volume 9)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. The Origins of Academic Chemical Engineering

    • Nikolaos A. Peppas
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Development of Chemical Engineering as Shown by its Texts

    • D. C. Freshwater
    Pages 15-25

  4. Academic Connections of the 20th Century U.S. Chemical Engineers: Influence of the 18th and 19th Century Swedish, French and German Chemists

    • N. A. Peppas
    Pages 27-37

  5. History of a Research Journal, Chemical Engineering Science

    • J. Bridgwater
    Pages 39-46

  6. The Development of Fluid Mechanics in Chemical Engineering

    • Stephen Whitaker
    Pages 47-109

  7. Changing View on the Classical Stefan Problem

    • H. Janeschitz-Kriegl
    Pages 111-124

  8. Unit Processes Against Unit Operations: The Educational Fights of the Thirties

    • N. A. Peppas, R. S. Harland
    Pages 125-142

  9. Chemical Engineering in the Netherlands 1935–1965

    • H. Kramers
    Pages 143-151

  10. Chemical Engineering Developments in India

    • R. A. Mashelkar, J. V. Rajan
    Pages 153-221

  11. Chemical Engineering at University College London

    • Peter N. Rowe, Anthony R. Burgess
    Pages 223-236

  12. From Mining to Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham

    • A. J. Biddlestone, J. Bridgwater
    Pages 237-244

  13. Loughborough — The Development of a Department

    • D. C. Freshwater, B. W. Brooks, A. Foord
    Pages 245-261

  14. Chemical Engineering at Purdue University

    • Nikolaos A. Peppas, Ronald S. Harland
    Pages 263-299

  15. History of Chemical Engineering at the University of Rochester

    • John C. Friedly
    Pages 301-319

  16. Chemical Engineering Education at the University of Kansas 1895–1988

    • James O. Maloney
    Pages 321-351

  17. History of ChE at the University of Washington

    • Ralph Wells Moulton
    Pages 353-362

  18. The History of Chemical Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)

    • Satish J. Parulekar, Darsh T. Wasan
    Pages 363-377

  19. History of Chemical Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology 1881–1988

    • Deran Hanesian, Angelo Perna, Joseph Joffe
    Pages 379-397

  20. Back Matter

    Pages 399-414
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About this book

One hundred years ago, in September 1888, Professor Lewis Mills Norton (1855-1893) of the Chemistry Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology introduced to the curriculum a course on industrial chemical practice. This was the first structured course in chemical engineer­ ing taught in a University. Ten years later, Norton's successor Frank H. Thorpe published the first textbook in chemical engineering, entitled "Outlines of Industrial Chemistry." Over the years, chemical engineering developed from a simple industrial chemical analysis of processes into a mature field. The volume presented here includes most of the commissioned and contributed papers presented at the American Chemical Society Symposium celebrating the centenary of chemical engineering. The contributions are presented in a logical way, starting first with the history of chemical engineering, followed by analyses of various fields of chemical engineering and concluding with the history of various U.S. and European Departments of Chemical Engineering. I wish to thank the authors of the contributions/chapters of this volume for their enthusiastic response to my idea of publishing this volume and Dr. Gianni Astarita of the University of Naples, Italy, for his encouragement during the initial stages of this project.

Reviews

`This book is warmly recommended to chemical engineers, historians of chemistry, and to all persons interested in the development of chemical engineering both in the United States and abroad.'
Journal of Chemical Education, 67 (7) July 1990

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

    Nikolaos A. Peppas

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: One Hundred Years of Chemical Engineering

  • Book Subtitle: From Lewis M. Norton (M.I.T. 1888) to Present

  • Editors: Nikolaos A. Peppas

  • Series Title: Chemists and Chemistry

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2307-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1989

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0145-5Published: 30 April 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7536-7Published: 27 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2307-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 416

  • Topics: Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Chemistry/Food Science, general, History, general

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