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INDUSTRIAL and ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY
DECEMBER
10,
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Symposium o n Drying and Air Conditioning Fourth Annual Chemical Engineering Symposium, Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, American Chemical Society University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., December 27 and 28, 1937
c*sp Tuesday Afternoon, December 28, 1:45 l o t:30 P. M.
Final Program Registration and all technical meetings will be held in Houston Hall, University of Pennsylvania, 3417 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa.
ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSION OP DRYING EQUIPMENT-
C. B. SHEPHERD, Presiding B. A. SMITH. J. L. ERISMAN. C. E. BILL. A. WEISSELBERG. W. S. BOWEN. D. F. IRVIN. A. O . HURXTHAL. D. J. VAN MARLB. L. H. BAILEY.
Monday Morning, December 27 N. W. KRASE, Presiding
8:00 to 10:00 A. M.—Registration. 10:00 A. M.—H. S. LUKENS.
W. L. BADGER.
D. B. KEY ES
Introductory Remarks. 1 0 : 1 5 A. M.—E. R. GILLILAND. Fundamentals of Drying and Air Conditioning. 1 1 : 0 0 A. M.—A. B. NEWMAN. An Equilibrium Pressure Chart for Two Components, One Volatile. 11:30 A. u.—Discussion.
General Information REGISTRATION. All persons attending the meeting mtixi register. The registration fee is SI.00 for members of the
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, students, and guests, and $2.00 for nonmembers of the SOCIETY.
Monday Afternoon, December 27
SOCIAL. There will be group luncheons on Monday and Tues day, and a group dinner on Monday evening, all in Houston Hall. Tickets may be purchased at the time of registration. The toastmaster for the dinner on Monday evening will be James G. Vail. The principal speaker will be Albert F. Murray, engineer in charge of television for the Philco Radio and Television Corp. Mr. Murray's talk, entitled "Itesearch and Development in Television," will be illustrated and will in clude certain demonstrations of television equipment. HOTELS. Reservations should be made directly with hotels.
T. K. SHERWOOD, Presiding
2:00 p. M.—R. B. DERR. The Drying of Air and Commercial Gases with Activated Alumina. 2:30 P. M.—A. W. HIXSON AND G. E. WHITE.
termination of Dew Point.
Accurate De
3:00 p. M.—B. F. SHARPLEY AND L. M. K. BOELTER.
The
Evaporation of Water into Quiet Air from a One-Foot Diameter Surface. 3:30 p. M.—F. R. BICHOWSKY. Use of Lithium Chloride in Drying and Air Conditioning. A. Thermodynamic Prop erties of Lithium Chloride Solutions. B. Application to Adiabatic Drying. 4:00 p. M.—Discussion.
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T. H. CHILTON, Presiding
9:00 A. M.—M. C. MOLSTAD. Rate of Evaporation from a Free Water Surface to a Transverse Air Stream. 9:30 A. M.—C. B. SHEPHERD, C. HADLOCK, AND R. C. BREWER.
The Drying of Materials in Trays. Evaporation of Surface Moisture. 10:00 A. if.—A. E. STACBY, JR. Comparison of Rate of Evapo ration of Moisture from a Wet Material and from a Free Water Surface. 1 0 : 3 0 A. M.—R. C. ERNST, D. B. ARDEN, AND F. M. TILLER.
Drying of a Commercial Solid.
Air and Vacuum Drying.
nical and Economic Aspects of Spray Drying. 11:30 A. if.—Discussion.
SIZTOLB ROOM
DOUBLE ROOM
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Hotel Philadelphian* $4.40 $3.50 $2.75 Hotel Normandie* 3.50 4.0O 2.50 Bellevue 8tratford* 4.40 6.60 3.85 Benjamin Franklin* 6.60 3.85 • Within a few blocks of Houston Hall. * Central Philadelphia, 10 to 15 minutes t o university by taxicat». sssssssssssssssaBsaBsnssssssBâsssssaBs^
Tuesday Morning, December 28
11:00 A. M.—B. B. FOGLBB AND R. V. KLEINSCHMIDT.
Rotary Dryers. Rotary Louvre Dryer. Steam Tube Dryer. VerticaUTurbo Dryer. Spray Dryers. Crystal Filter Dryer Aeroform Dryer. Drum Dryers. Agitator Dryers.
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ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS. Abstracts of papers will be mailed to all members of the Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, and will be distributed to registrants at the meeting. Separate copies may be had by sending 50 cents to Howard 8. Gardner, Secretary-Treasurer, Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, M. I. T. Field Station, c/o Eastern Manufacturing Co., Bangor. Me. ARRANGEMENTS. The University of Pennsylvania is host to the meeting. The Chemical Engineering Symposium Committee consists of D. B. Keyes, Chairman, T. H. Chilton, B. F. Dodge, and T. K. Sherwood. The Round-Table Discussion of Drying Equipment was arranged by C. B. Shepherd. X. W. Krase is in charge of local arrangements.
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Nominees for Officers of t h e A. C. S. THE ballot which bas just been Βycounted, the members of the AMERI-
CAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY have nominated
for President-elect, William Lloyd Evans. Harry N. Holmes, Charles A. Kraus, and S. C. Lind: for Councilors-at-large, Wm. Mansfield Clark, A. C. Fieldner, L. Gubelmann, B . S. Hopkins, G. E. F. Lundell, John H. Nair, A. S. Richardson, and Horace A. Shonle. Rallots are now in the hands of members of the Council, who will proceed t o elect one from the list of four nominations for President-elect, and four from the list of Councilors-at-large. The result of the elect ion will b e reported in the next issue of the N E W S EDITION.
Members Elected October 1 t o December 1 CALIFORNIA SECTION. John J. Eiler, Frank M. Goyan. CHICAGO SECTION.
Julius Sendroy, Jr.
CLEVELAND SECTION.
Warren A. Deeds.
COLORADO SECTION.
Thomas P. Campbell.
COLUMBUS SECTION.
John C. Sowden.1
CONNECTICUT VALLEY SECTION.
CORNELL SECTION.
Jacob Papieh.
KANSAS CITY SECTION.
Herbert Alexander
Martini. LEHIGH VALLEY SECTION.
New Fellowship in Chemistry at P u r d u e
F. S. Con-
over.
NEW YORK SECTION.
William C. Fritz.
A. J. Wittenberg.
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John Albert El
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SECTION.
George F.
Freeman,1 Richard Fowble Riley.1
WASHINGTON SECTION.1 Sister Mary Gregory, Madison Hunt. WESTERN N E W YORK SECTION.
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F. E. Ran-
No SECTION. Barbara Bailey, J. F. D'Olieslager, F. Campbell Rutherford, Jorie E. Verhulst, Iyewo Yamamoto. 1
Junior member.
100 P e r C e n t A . C . S . Membership HE Kansas State Teachers College of Pittsburg, Kans., boasts 100 per
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CAL SOCIETY of its teachers of chemistry.
HE Commercial Solvents Corp., which for t h e past two and one-half years T Symposium on the Less Familiar Elements has sponsored a growing research program in the Purdue Department of Chemistry, has recently approved the addition of J. A. Patterson t o the group of fellowship men financed by this company working under t h e direction of Professor Hase. There are now twelve candidates for the degree o f doctor of philosophy in chemistry who are employed full-time in the pursuit o f problems of scientific importance, t h e solutions of which are of interest t o various companies. Of these, five are supported by Commercial Solvents. Mr. Patterson's investigations were originally financed by a fund made available to t h e Purdue Research Foundation through the generosity of J. K. Lilly of the Purdue Board of Trustees. When it became apparent that the data obtained by Mr. Patterson were applicable to the purification and chemical utilization of one of t h e by-products of a process operated b y Commercial Solvents, Professor Hass brought the matter t o the attention of the executives of that corporation and, with the assistance of Director G. S. Meikle, arrangements were completed for continuing the work as a Commercial Solvents Fellowship. Thus type of cooperative research, in which Purdue University occupies a leading position, is extremely advantageous t o the Ph.D. candidate who has at his disposal adequate funds for apparatus and reagents, is able to devote fiis entire time and attention t o the problem, and receives a type of training which prepares him unusually well for the industrial investigations which he is to pursue after graduation. The university benefits by having outside money added to its research budget. T h e industry benefits b y being able to utilize the physical facilities o f the university and the specialized knowledge and training of its staff without disrupting the course work by attracting scientists away from the teaching profession. It is not surprising that such a logical and mutually helpful institution as the Purdue Research Foundation should be able to point to a continuous record of growth since 1929 when Director Meikle came to this campus as director of Research Relations with Industry.
Second Annual Symposium, Division o f Physical a n d I n o r g a n i c Chemistry, A m e r i c a n Chemical Society H o t e l S t a t i e r , Cleveland, Ohio, D e c e m b e r 27, 2 8 , a n d 29, 1937 HE following information should be T considered in connection with the more detailed program for the Symposium on t h e Less Familiar Elements, which appeared on page 492 of our N E W S EDITION for
November 20, 1937. Industrial Trips In addition to the Tuesday afternoon trip to the General Electric Co., several special trips are being scheduled for Thursday morning, December 30: The Ferro Enamel Corp. will show visitors through its modem plant and research laboratories for t h e manufacture of porcelain enamel frit. The Harshaw Chemical Co. will open its research laboratories and color d e partments to visitors. The Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry of Western Reserve University will hold open house with demonstrations of t h e manipulation of fluoride gases.
GRASSELLI CHEMICAL DIVISION, E. I. DU PONT D E NEMOURS AND C O . Indium
metal and compounds, bright zinc plating using molybdenum, other new commercial compounds of the less familiar elements. HARSHAW
CHEMICAL Co.
Optical
lithium fluoride, ceramic pigments and opacifiers, containing the less familiar elements, liquid bright gold, and platinum. B . S. HOPKINS will exhibit a collection of rare earth salts and rare earth ores. MOLYBDENUM C o . OP AMERICA. Molyb-
denum, tungsten, vanadium, boron compounds. NATIONAL CARBON C O .
carbons. Si-Lux CORP. compounds. G.
Flaming arc
Barium and strontium
FREDERICK SMITH CHEMICAL C O .
Ceric salts. Exhibit of books covering the less familiar elements arranged by W. C. Fernelius.
Ladies 9 Program Committees In addition to the Tuesday program, SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE. A. A. Blanchwith complimentary luncheon and fashion ard, W. C. Fernelius, B. S. Hopkins, show at the Higbee store followed by a Warren C. Johnson, G. E. F. Lundell, L. visit to radio station WHK, several special H. Reyerson, H. S. Booth, Chairman. trips, such as to the Cleveland Museum LOCAL COMMITTEE. Trips and Transof Art, W. P. A. rehousing projects, newly portation, Eric Arnold; Registration and completed and already filled, the Terminal Treasurer, Frank Hovorka; Exhibits, H. Tower, the Sterling and Welch Co., and C. Kremers; Ladies' Program, Mrs. Halle Brothers store will be available. Glenn H . Mclntyre; Printing, M. M. Sobel. Exhibits Attendance at this symposium is not limited to members of t h e Division of An incomplete list of exhibits follows : Physical and Inorganic Chemistry. BRUSH BERYLLIUM C O . Beryllium Information regarding Cleveland apmetal, alloys, and compounds. peared in the following issues of the N E W S FANSTEEL METALLURGICAL CORP. C O EDITION prior to the meeting of the Society lumbium and tantalum products. there in September, 1934: "A Tower FERRO ENAMEL CORP. Examples of u s e of less familiar elements in porcelain View of Cleveland," June 20. 1934, page 225; "Cleveland's Diverse Attractions," enamels. July 20, page 257; "Chemistry in CleveGENERAL ELECTRIC C O . Tungsten, land," August 10, page 273. molybdenum, and products, Carboloy.
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