Transactions of the Institution of Chemical Engineers

Abstract

THE Institution of Chemical Engineers is to be congratulated on its first volume of Transactions, which reaches a high standard both in form and in contents. The volume opens with a brief history of the steps taken to found the Institution, and contains papers read before it. The first paper is a long monograph by T. C. Finlayson on industrial oxygen. In this the various known methods for the manufacture of oxygen are described and analysed both from the technical and economic aspects, and an account of original experiments is given. The results obtained were not capable of industrial application, but the paper was described as valuable in the discussion. A short contribution on absorption towers by M. B. Donald and C. W. Tyson, a study of the conditions of constant rate of flow in filter presses by M. B. Donald and R. D. Hunnemann, an outline of the present knowledge of corrosion by?.?. Donald, and a bibliography of chemical engineering literature (1900-1923) form the rest of the volume. It is evident that these contributions have been composed in a scientific and practical style, and the volume is evidence of the really good work which the Institution may be expected to do in future in the interests of chemical engineering.

Transactions of the Institution of Chemical Engineers.

Vol. 1, 1923. Pp. xv + 120. (London: Institution of Chemical Engineers, Abbey House, Westminster, 1924.) n.p.