Table of Contents

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)

About the Author

William Flank is Professor of Chemistry at Pace University. He is the author of 15 patents and numerous publications. He is past-chair of the Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society. Martin Abraham is Professor and Founding Dean of the College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math at Youngstown State University. He is author of numerous papers and books on reaction engineering and
green engineering. He is a past-chair of the Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society. Michael Matthews is Professor and Chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of South Carolina. He is author of
numerous papers on supercritical fluid technology and topics in applied thermodynamics. He is a past-chair of the Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society.

Books by same author "Adsorption and Ion Exchange with Synthetic Zeolites." W. Flank, ed. ACS Symposium Series, 1980. "Sustainability Science & Engineering, Vol. 1: Defining Principles" Martin A. Abraham, Ed. Elsevier Press, 2006. "Clean Solvents: Alternative Media for Chemical Reactions and Processing." Martin Abraham and Luc Moens, Eds. ACS Symposium Series 819. 2002. "Supercritical Fluids. Extraction and Pollution Prevention." Martin Abraham and Aydin Sunol, Eds.
ACS Symposium Series 670. "Reaction Engineering for Pollution Prevention." Martin Abraham and Robert Hesketh, Eds. Elsevier Science BV. 2000.