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T H E J O U R N A L OF I N D U S T R I A L A N D ENGINEERING C H E M I S T R Y
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BOOK REVIEWS Transactions of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Volume VI (1913), Office of the Secretary, Cooper Union, New Uork, h-.Y . Published by the Institute through D. Van 268 pages. Nostrand Company, New York, 1914. Svo., iii
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The sixth volume of these Transactions is slightly smaller than the previous volume of the series. There were two less papers published in it than in the preceding one. Following the commendable system begun in the previous volume the present one starts by giving in full the papers which have been read before the Institute, together with the discussions which followed, throwing t o the rear of the volume such matter as the Institute’s Code of Ethics, Constitution, Committees and membership list. As in the former volume, the Proceedings of the annual meetings have been omitted entirely from this issuea commendable procedure for brevity but a doubtful one in view of the importance of some of the Institute’s work. The volume is a pleasing one and a number of the articles are illustrated. The following addresses and papers read before the Institute are contained in the publication: “Efficiency in Chemical Industries, The Corn Products Industry,” T . B. Wagner. “ T h e Effect of Legislation upon Chemical Industries,” T. B. Wagner. “Distribution of H e a t in the Operation of Steam Boilers,” Perry Barker. “General Efficiency in Dyehouses a n d Bleach Works,” L. J. Matos. “Depreciation and Obsolescence,” R . K. Meade. “Legal Control of Dangers t o Health in Factories,” C. F. McKenna. “Low and Mixed Pressure Turbines,” J. G. Callan. “Import Duties on Chemicals and Their Influence on Chemical Indust r y , ” F. W. Frerichs. “ T h e Drying of Linseed Oil with Red Lead and White Lead,” J. C. Olien and A. H. Callaghan. ‘’A Peculiar Form of Lake Pollution,” Wm, P . Mason. “Relation of the Manufacturer t o the Patent System,” Wm. M. Grosvenor. “Effect of Climate on P l a n t Location.” Wm. M . Booth. “Recent Developments in Commercial Explosives,” E. A. LeSueur. “Electrolysis: Using Supported Mercury Kathode,” E. A. LeSueur. “ A Self-Dumping Filter Press,” E. J. Sweetland. “ A New Filter Press,” A. Burger. “Ozone: I t s Manufacture and Use,” A. Vosmaer. “.4pparatus for Determining Non-Condensing Gases in Ammonia,” F. W.Frerichs. “ T h e Present Status of the Wood Turpentine Industry,” E. €1. French and ]as. R. Withrow.
This volume maintains the Institute’s reputation for drawing papers from a wide diversity of angles interesting to the chemical engineer. Special attention should be called to the two addresses by the retiring President of the Institute, Dr. T. B. Wagner. The addresses by retiring presidents of the Institute are notably able papers, but this year’s addresses were especially able contributions t o themica1 engineering literature. The development of the growth of efficiency in the corn products industry by Dr. IVagner is a classic. His optimistic recounting, in the face of his own experiences, of the effect of legislation upon the .development of chemical industries stamps him as a broadminded man no matter where we stand on the “glucose question,” and i t should win him the thanks of all industrial chemists. A notable and somewhat exhaustive paper was the authoritative one on Ozone by Vosmaer. Although drawn from many fields the papers fall into a very few classes. The note of engineering efficiency runs dominantly through almost all and is evident in the titles of over half of them. The economics of chemical engineering is well developed by authorities, in the papers by Wm. M. Booth, W. M. Grosvenor, R. K. hIeade and F . A . Frerichs. It is always refreshing to hear from a real pioneer like the big-hearted LeSueur.. The control of dangers to health receives authoritative attention from McKenna and Mason and the filter presses
are discussed by Sweetland and Burger. Burger’s ideas appear to be a new departure in the washing of precipitates in filter presses. The presence of a n analytical article, even if by a most genial and earnest member of the Institute, still serves t o emphasize the danger to the Institute of opening into its Transactions the flood gates of Engineering Chemistry as was pointed out in the case of Volume V [THISJOURNAL, 6 (1914), 1741. JAMES R. U’ITHROW BEACALL, F. Dyestuffs and Coal Tar Products. By THOMAS CHALLENGER, GEOFFREYMARTINAND HENRYSAND. Published by I). Appleton & Co., New York, 1915. Illustrated. Price, $ 2 . 7 5 . This book is really a monograph consisting of articles on coal tar products, synthetic dyestuffs, dyeing and printing industry, inks, modern synthetic drugs and photographic chemicals selected from the recently published book on “Industrial and Manufacturing Chemistry,” edited by Geoffrey Martin. As stated in the preface the raison d’dtre of this volume is the interest aroused in these various coal tar products through the stoppage of their importation from Germany. The appearance of the book is a timely one and consequently it will certainly be of interest to manufacturers and chemists who are considering at all the possibility of manufacturing such products in this country. The volume has been rather hastily gotten together; consequently is very incomplete and sketchy in character. The presentation of the material is made in a systematic and condensed form and the various articles really contain information of considerable value and interest. The authors, however, have relied more on text-books and the information obtainable from journals, than upon technical experience in the manufacture or handling of the products dealt with. Consequently the book deals more with information about the products than with technical matters relating to their manufacture or use. Some of the sections are rather incomplete For instance, that on synthetic dyestuffs mentions in a very casual and brief manner the subject of sulfur dyestuffs. The chief sulfur blacks and their method of manufacture from dinitrophenol are not described. The technical details concerning the manufacture of various products are also amateurish and incomplete. Consequently the book would be rather disappointing to a manufacturing chemist who would hope to find definite directions for the preparation of coal tar products. The book in reality is more adapted to the use of students and general readers. I t is a departure, however, in the right direction and it is hoped that more scientific monographs on such topics in technical chemistry will be brought out by the necessities forced upon us of looking towards the manufacture of such coal tar products as we cannot now obtain f r o F Germany by reason of the war J . iU.MATTHEWS SEELIGHandbuch der Lack- und Firnis-Industrie. By FRANZ MANX A N D EMILZIEKE. xvi 1074 pp., 249 illustrations. 2nd Ed. Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin, 1914. Price, 30 marks. The first edition published in 1910 contained 9 j 3 pages; this later edition contains 1074 pages while the arrangement remains substantially the same and an examination of the book indicates that i t has been brought up to date in a satisfactory fashion. The references to the literature are full and so far as the resins and their properties are concerned, the treatment is thorough. The manufacture of varnishes is of course viewed from a European standpoint rather than that of the American manufacturer and user. PARKER C. ~ ~ I L H I N E Y
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