FUTURE OF mationamong petroleum chemists-ta the transformation of the "art" of petrol refining into a science. Millions of dollars have been spent by dozens of laboratories on research in petroleum fleld, but we being produced b y not more naphthenes and still another may have relatively large quantities of aromatics. Methods of finding oil resewoirs have been improved, but we still are a long way from knowing wh look for new supplies. drilling we run into new problems how to drill a straight hole; how to cope with high tempera gas pressures of 00 the handling of petrol chance of finding workable solutions to most of these problems lies in meetings where scientists can together and discuss freely the scientitlc aspecis of their problems. ..
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Petroleum, as drawn from the earth, contains thousands of individual chemical compounds, the most important of which are hydrocarbons. From this mixture physical separation processes and simple chemical treatments can render cetiain groups of hydrocarbons suitable for use in the two main flelds of man‘s utilization of petroleum-fuels and lubricants. To provide the fuels, and sometimes the lubricants needed for our highly developed internal combustion engines, powerful means have been found to convert hydrocarbons native to petroleum into individual hydrocarbons or groups of hydrocarbons having outstanding performance characteristics. The essential tool required to achieve such a result is a catalytic agent which will operate an those petroleum constituents to convert them readily and ecanamically to those most desired for our use. This aim has been accomplished on an impressive commercial scale in many instances, the wtstanding case being that of catalytic cracking. Our future advances in catalysis rest upon the scientific study of such subiects as hydrocarbcn thermodynamics and structural energy relationships, the catalytic and thermal reaction mechanisms of hydrocarbons, the physical structure and surface chemistry of solid catalysts, and *e molecular kinetics of reactions in homogeneous and heterogeneous systems. Important problems of the better utilization of available crude ails still face the petroleum refiner, but these will be rolved when technical and economic means for the 8. S. GREENSFELDER catalytic conversion of appropriate petroleum fractions are perfected.
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