Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 408 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm
Reihe: History of Modern Science
A Century of Synthesis
Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 408 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm
Reihe: History of Modern Science
ISBN: 978-90-04-54411-6
Verlag: Brill
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
Weitere Infos & Material
Contents
Preface
Permission Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations and Tables
Abbreviations
1 Overview of the Synthetic Fuel Industry
1 Introductory
2 Global Energy Situation 1910–90s: Energy Crises and Revivals
3 Impact of Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) Revolution on Natural Petroleum and Synthetic Fuel Production
4 Scientific and Engineering Advances in Synthetich Fuel Research and Development
5 Economics and Politics of Synthetic Fuel Development
6 Chapter Titles and Summaries
7 A Note on Sources
2 Friedrich Bergius, Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch: The Rise of the German Synthetic Fuel Industry
1 Introductory
2 Hydrogenation Begins
3 First Industrial Application of High-Pressure Hydrogenation
4 Friedrich Bergius: Background to High-Pressure Coal Hydrogenation
5 IG Farben Process and Its Industrialization in Germany
6 Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis
7 Conclusion
3 Germany’s Synthetic Fuel Industry 1927–45
1 Introductory
2 Germany’s Energy Plan
3 BASF-IG Farben’s Coal Hydrogenation Program
4 Industrial Development of the F-T Synthesis
5 Summary of Synthetic Fuel Industrial Development in Germany 1927–45
6 Labor Force in the Synthetic Fuel Plants
7 Conclusion
4 From Birmingham to Billingham: High-Pressure Coal Hydrogenation in Great Britain
1 Introductory
2 Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis and the Beginning of Coal Hydrogenation in Britain: Birmingham
3 Coal Hydrogenation at the Fuel Research Station
4 Influence of Variables on the Conversion Process
5 Development of a Small-Size Continuous Plant
6 ICI and the Billingham Plant
7 Politics and Economics
8 Conclusion
5 Synthetic Fuel Production in Prewar and World War II Japan: A Study in Technological Failure
1 Introductory
2 Overview of Japan’s Coal Conversion Processes, Seven Year Energy Plan
3 Development of Japan’s Oil Shale, Derived and Synthetic Liquid Fuel Sources to 1930
4 Government Support of Japan’s Synthetic Fuel Industry
5 Oil Shale and LTC Emerge as Major Sources of Liquid Fuel
6 Research and Development of the Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis: A Promising Beginning
7 Coal Hydrogenation: High Hopes but Little Success
8 Japan’s IG Farben Connection
9 Conclusion
6 Canada’s Mines Branch and Its Synthetic Fuel Program for Energy Independence
1 Introductory
2 Early Concern for Fuel Supply
3 Synthetic Fuel Research at the Mines Branch
4 Wartime Developments on Synthetic Fuel
5 Postwar Developments on Oil Sands Separation
6 The Blair Report, Athabasca Conference, and the State of Canadian Fuel Research
7 Canada’s Changing Energy Situation
8 Conclusion
7 The United States Bureau of Mines’ Synthetic Fuel Program 1920s–50s: German Connections and American Advances
1 Introductory
2 Early Bureau of Mines, European, and Japanese Research and Development of Derived and Synthetic Liquid Fuel
3 Liquid Fuel Developments in the United States
4 Development of the F-T Synthesis
5 Early Research on Coal Hydrogenation
6 Coal Hydrogenation and F-T Synthesis at the Bureau of Mines, the Synthetic Liquid Fuels Act of 1944
7 The Demonstration Synthetic Fuel Plants in Louisiana, Missouri
8 Industrial Development of F-T and Coal Hydrogenation
9 Concluding the Bureau’s Synthetic Fuel Program
8 Epilogue: Post-World War II Synthetic Fuel Development and the Emergence of Environmental Concerns
1 Introductory
2 Pre-World War II Small-Scale Synthetic Fuel Developments: Italy and France 1920s–40s
3 Post-World War II Synthetic Fuel Developments: Sasol 1950s–2000s
4 Post-World War II Synthetic Fuel Developments: United States 1960s–80s
5 Fossil Fuel, Synthetic Fuel, the Environment
6 Oil Crises 1990s, Oil Shale Fracking Revolution and Its Consequences
7 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index