Materials of C nstruction The second annual Chemical Engineering Materials of Construction Review extends for one year the survey that appeared in the October 1947 issue. of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. Several changes will be apparent in this second review. The 1947 sections on glass, chemical stoneware, and refractories have been superseded by the single section on ceramics. Several sections that appeared in the 1947 feature are not present because the authors have felt that sufficient new information has not appeared in the literature since last year to justify another review. An extensive, documented tabular section is presented immediately following the review articles. This section summarizes important published information on the physical and chemical properties of the chemical engineering materials. Materials in the tabular section are grouped according to subject to correspond to the literature review sections. Information for the tabulation is a contribution of the respective section authors.
The Editors
ALUMINUM
ALLOYS 1776
ROBERT €1.BROWN received his B.S. in chemical engineering from Drexel Institute of Technology in 1927 and M.S. in 1930 from M.I.T. where he worked as research associate. He joined the staff of Aluminum Research Laboratories in 1931 as research metallurgist, was appointed assistant chief of the Chemical Metallurgy Division in 1944, and chief of that division in 1945. Brown is the author of numerous pqpers on corrosion. ELLIS D. VERINK, JR,,graduated from Purdue University in 1941, receiving a B.S. in metallurgical engineering. He was commissioned in the United States Navy a t graduation and served as procurement officer a t the Portsmouth, N. H., Navy Yard until December 1945. Verinlr has been employed in the Development Division of the Aluminum Company of America since February 1946. He i s the author of several papers on chemical corrosion.
CEMENTS 1778
C. K. PAYNE attended the University of Kansas where he obtained his A.B. in 1927 and M.S. in 1928; he received his Ph.D. in 1937 from the University of Pittsburgh. From 1928 to 1935, Payne was an industrial fellow ,of the Mellon Institute. Since 1935 he has been vice president and technical director of The Atlas Mineral Products Company. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
CERAMICS 1782
JOIIN H. ICOENIG is a graduate of Ohio State University, Ph.D. 1938. Industrial associations include: General Electric Company, Pittsfield Laboratory (1931-38); Engineering Experiment Station, Ohio State University, as U. S. Potters Association fellow (1935-38); and Hall China Company as ceramist (1938-42)g director of School of Ceramics and N. J. Ceramic Research Station a t Rutgers University. Jn 1942-45 he served in the U S Navy.
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COPPER, WROUGHT, AXD COPPER-BASE ALLOYS 1785
ELASTOMERS 1788
C. LAWRENCE BULOTVi attended Bridgeport University while working as laboratory assistant a t the Bridgeport Brass Company where he was first employed in 1927. Later he was in charge of the chemical and spectrographic laboratories and for the past seven years has studied the corrosion resistance of copper and copper-base alloys under a variety of conditions. Bulow has published several technical papers in this field.
H A R R Y L. FISHER is a graduate of Williams College and Columbia University (Ph.D. 1912). For seven gears he was research chemist a t B. F. Goodrich Company, and later with U. 9. Rubber. In 1936 he was named director of organic research of U. S. Industrial Chemicals, Inc. He is the author of ‘6Laboratory Manual of Organic Chemistry and Rubber and Its Use” and technical articles and patents in organic chemistry and rubber technology
FIBERS 1793
ROBERT S. CASEY obtained his R1.S. in 1920 from Trinity College (Conm.). As a chemist with W. A. Sheaffer Pen Company, he de\eloped Skrip writing fluid; in 1924 he became manager of the Slcrip factory, in 1936 manager of the company’s research laboratory, and in 1943 director of research. Casey is a licensed professional engineer and in 1946 received the Anson Marston Award of the Iowa Engineering Society. C. S. GROVE, JR., is a graduate of Lenoir Rhyne College; he received his B.S. in chemical engineering from N, C. State College in 1920; his M.S. from R1.I.T. in 1934; and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1942. Grove is professor of chemical engineering a t Syracuse; previous positions were a t N. C. State College, University of Minnesota, and State University of Iowa. From 1941 to 1945 he was research engineer in the Rayon Department of 1 2 Pout. ~
IRON, MILD STEELS, AND LOW ALLOY STEELS 1798
R. B. MEARS received his B.S. in electrochenlical engineering at Pennsylvania State College in 1928 and his Pb.D. in metallurgy a t Cambridge University in 1935. He was associated with the Aluminum Research Laboratories until 1947 when he was appointed manager of the research laboratory a t Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Mears is the author of technical papers and patents primarily on corrosion, cathodic protection, a d rnatesial selection.
IRON, MILD STEELS, AND LOW ALLOY STEELS (Continued) 1798
NICKEL AND HIGH NICKEL ALLOYS 1801
PLASTICS 1801
RUBBER, HARD 1809
STEEL, STAINLESS, AND OTHER FERROUSALLOYS 1812
S. C. SNYDER was graduated from Pennsylvania State College in 1927 with a B.S. in electrochemical engineering. He is associated with the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. From 1937 to 1940 he was silicon steel supervisor and later development engineer for electrical sheet and strip. In 1943 his duties were broadened to cover high strength-low alloy steels. A t present he is a research associate of the Research and Development Division of the corporation.
W. Z. FRIEND studied chemical engineering a t West Virginia University where he received the degrees of B.S. Ch.E. in 1924 and M.S. Ch.E. in 1926. Prior to 1937 he was associated with the Gasoline Recovery Corporation and the Philgas Division of Phillips Petroleum Company. Since 1937 he has been with the Development and Research Department of International Nickel Company, Inc., and now is assistant head of the Corrosion Engineering Section.
GORDON M. KLINE, Colgate University, A.B., George Washington University, M.S., and University of Maryland, Ph.D., 1934. As a research chemist he has been connected with the New York State Department of Health, the Picatinny Arsenal, and finally the National Bureau of Standards, where he is chief of the Organic Plastics Section. He is technical editor of Modern Plastics and editorial director of Modern Plastics Encyclopedia.
FRANK S. MALM is a graduate of the Armour Institute of Technology and Lewis Institute. In 1906 he entered the student training course of Western Electric Company’s Hawthorne Works, in 1908 became rubber engineer in Manufacturing Methods Organization, and later was in charge of chemical engineering and development work on rubber and plastics. Since 1932 he has been with Bell Telephone Laboratories as assistant insulation engineer.
MARSHALL H. BROWN received his B.S. in chemistry from the University of Illinois in 1928. In 1930 and 1933, respectively, he received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the same university. In 1933 he joined the staff of the Engineering Research Laboratory of E. I. d u Pont de Nemours & Company, Inc. Since that time he has been doing research and consulting on materials of construction problems, particularly in the fields of corrosion and of stainless steel. WILLIAM B. DELONG, a graduate of Cornel1 University, holds the degrees of B. Chem. and M. Chem. from this university. In 1936 he joined the Engineering Research Laboratory of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Inc., and has been engaged in the investigation and application of materials of construction to chemical process conditions. This work has included research on the corrosion of the stainless steels and other metallic materials.
