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This is when chemical engineering was created. But they were just learning stuff, so they didn't know a lot of stuff.https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/the-first-century-of-chemical-engineering -
Bakelite, the first entirely synthetic thermosetting plastic, is produced from phenol, formaldehyde and wood flour. -
thermal cracking at 850 F and 75 psig doubles the yield of gasoline line from crude oil, compared with 650 F atmospheric distillation.https://chme.nmsu.edu/_files/What%20is%20CHME%20ten_achievements.pdf -
polymethyl methacrylate acrylic glass in developed; marketed in 1933 as plexiglas. -
Enriched uranium is produced at the clinton engineer works-the 2,142 column thermal diffusion plant at Oak Ridge, TN. -
Hollow-fiber reverse-osmosis membranes are used to treat brackish water, providing greater capacities than similarly sized spiral-wound membranes. -
Automotive catalytic converter is developed to clean up automobile exhaust emission. sulfur, a catalyst poison, must fire be removed from the gasoline. -
Anaerobic bioreactors capable of high-rate clean-up of wastewater generated in the making of purified terephthalic acid are developed. -
A 2021 salary and job satisfaction survey from chemical processing found that 40 percent of workers in a chemical engineering field worked entirely remotely after March 2020. That proportion had dropped to 20 percent to date in 2021. -
Inflation will help commodity and real estate related industries, hurt industries that carry high inventories, and throw most other sectors into uncertainty. The worst impact of inflation will not be directly as a result of rising prices, but indirectly as the Federal Reserve responds.