Table of Contents:
  • Putting science to work: a history of I and 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 and EC division / Héctor Rodríguez, Gabriela Gurau, and Robin D. Rogers
  • The twelve principles of green chemistry / Philip G. Jessop, Sofia Trakhtenberg, and John Warner.