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120th Anniversary Special Advertising Section
120th Anniversary
special advertising section
T
his year Chemical Engineering celebrates its 120th anniversary. We can trace our beginning
back to September 1902, with the growing field of electrochemistry and a new publication
named Electrochemical Industry. That first issue opened with these words:
" Notwithstanding the great proportions which the applications of electrochemistry have
assumed in the United States, and the valuable contributions which here have been made
to the science and to the art, this vigorous and rapidly expanding branch of national industry
has this far lacked a journalistic exponent. That a field exists in this country for a journal
devoted specifically to the science and application of electrochemistry appears to be clearly
indicated . . . " (from Electrochemical Industry, September 1, 1902).
Since then, the magazine has evolved along with the advancing fields of electrochemistry,
metallurgy and others to what, since 1946, has been called Chemical Engineering (For
more on the magazine's history, see " 120 years and going strong, " p. 4).
There have been enormous contributions and advances from chemical engineers over
the past 120 years. And while the basic tenets of chemical engineering, such as heat and
mass balances, remain the same, fast-paced technological advances, particularly in recent
years, have supplied our industries with tools for seemingly unbounded progress. I expect
that some of our readers today remember their first handheld calculator, perhaps even a
slide rule, and who are now working with virtual reality and beyond. We look forward to
continuing to bring information to the chemical engineering community, and are excited to
see what the future holds.
Dorothy Lozowski
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American Elements ....................57
Check-All Valves .........................54
DÜRR..........................................53
Endress + Hauser .......................55
Ekato ..........................................54
GEA ............................................50
INDECK ......................................54
IPCO ...........................................53
Kappes & Cassiday .....................56
KNF ............................................53
Myron L Company .......................51
Paul O. Abbe ..............................56
Pompetravaini ............................52
Pope Scientific Inc. .....................56
Ross Mixers ................................52
Uniflux/Exotherm .......................55
VEGA Amercas ............................51
Celebrating 120 years of Thermal Separation.
G
EA is commemorating a very important
milestone of its evaporation & crystallization
tradition while going forward.
Joining the very symbolic occasion of
Chemical Engineering's 120th anniversary, GEA
is proudly rejoicing on 120 years of thermal
separation tradition.
In 1902 Paul Kestner founded in Lille,
France, the pioneering company of industrial
evaporation and crystallization technologies
that was set to tackle both the technical and
mechanical problems of the chemical industry.
In 1908, Wilhelm Wiegand was granted a
patent for a multi-effect circulation evaporator.
At that time, the inventor was factory
manager of his father's leather factory in
Merseburg, Germany.
By the1920's, both companies were already
renowned for the engineering and
supplying of vapor generators, evaporators,
crystallizers, vacuum pumps, solutions for
minimizing energy consumption and complete chemical plants for a
wide range of products
Going further, these pioneering companies joined GEA Group as
part of its Powder & Thermal Separation Technology Business Unit.
Since then, the thermal separation has been a tremendously active
business area, delivering heavy-duty and high-performance evaporation
and crystallization made-to-measure
plants for the hydrometallurgical, fertilizer
and chemical industries. All this thanks to
the expertise synergy of the thermal separation
pioneers and their processes that
passionate and skilled GEA engineers have
further developed and constantly improved
in GEA's laboratories and pilot plants around
the world.
Today, GEA and the teams behind the
thermal separation tradition are very proud
to not only celebrate 120 years of excellence
in engineering, more than 4500 reference
plants in various markets around the world,
about 3500 test reports and over 100 patents,
but also the thrill and privilege of playing
a leading role within its key application
fields. Working together on the world's energy
transition towards a more sustainable
future -especially through the MVR heated
plants that recycle waste heat and improve
efficiency while reducing energy usage by 90%.
From one market leader to another, GEA wants to warmly congratulate
Chemical Engineering on this occasion and wish for many
more years of success.
www.gea.com
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