Robert le Rossignol : engineer of the Haber Process /: engineer of the Haber Process. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Deri Sheppard.
• Other Names: Sheppard, Deri
• Contents: Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- The Story of the Discovery of 'Fixation' -- 1 Robert Le Rossignol -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Early Years and School Days -- 1.3 University College London and Matriculation -- 1.4 Austen Clement -- 1.5 Postgraduate Studies -- 1.6 And Finally ... Controversy at UCL -- 2 Fritz Haber and Karlsruhe -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Young Fritz Jakob -- 2.3 His University Years -- 2.4 Takin' Care of Business -- 2.5 Jena, First Steps on the Academic Ladder -- 2.6 On Coming to Karlsruhe -- 2.7 Hans Luggin and Electrochemistry -- 2.8 Clara Immerwahr 2.9 Haber, the Eclectic Electrochemist -- 2.10 The Margulies Brothers -- 2.11 Haber, Thermodynamics and the 'Heat Theorem' -- 2.12 Professor Fritz Haber -- 3 Germany and 'Fixation' -- 3.1 Iquiqui, Tocopilla and Taltal -- 3.2 Haber's Introduction to the Nitrogen Problem -- 3.3 Early Commercial Progress in Nitrogen Fixation -- 3.4 Early Academic Progress Fixation by Synthesis: The Combination of Elemental Nitrogen and Hydrogen -- 3.5 But Finally ... What of Preussen? -- 4 The Golden Chemist -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Travers' Liquefiers -- 4.3 Beyond Engineering ... -- 5 Hamburg, 12 May 1907 5.1 Approaching the Ammonia Equilibrium -- 5.2 Nernst's Presentation -- 5.3 So How Should Haber Respond? -- 5.3.1 On the Ammonia Equilibrium -- 5.4 The Discussion -- 6 Bestimmung Des Ammoniakgleichgewichtes Unter Druck -- 6.1 The Legacy of Hamburg -- 6.2 Well Firstly ... -- 6.3 Then Secondly ... -- 6.4 So Thirdly -- 6.5 Well Finally -- 6.6 The Legacy of 'Bestimmung ... ' -- 7 Taking Care of Business -- 7.1 Money -- 7.2 The Contracts with BASF -- 7.3 Robert's Contract. The Corn Fields or the Killing Fields? -- 7.4 Haber's Dilemma -- 8 The Big Fix ... -- 8.1 The Secret Years 8.2 The Technical Realisation of Synthetic Ammonia -- 8.2.1 Evaluating Candidate Catalysts -- 8.2.2 The Circulation Apparatus -- 8.2.3 The Final Form of the Circulation Apparatus -- 8.2.4 Using These Machines -- 8.3 At Last ... the Breakthrough -- 8.4 Brunck, Bernthsen and Bosch -- 8.5 The Final Push -- 8.6 The End Game at Karlsruhe -- The Industrialisation of 'Fixation' and the Great War -- 9 The Auergesellschaft, Berlin -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Leopold Koppel -- 9.3 Electric Lighting -- 9.4 The Tungsten Filament Bulb -- 9.5 The Economics of Electric Lighting-Koppel's Strategic Aims 10 Of Koppel and the Kaiser -- 10.1 Progress at the BASF -- 10.2 18 February 1910, St. Helier, Jersey -- 10.3 The Scientific Union Meeting, 18 March 1910 -- 10.4 Of Koppel and the Kaiser -- 11 From Karlsruhe to Oppau -- 11.1 Early Progress at the BASF -- 11.2 Nitrogen and Hydrogen -- 11.3 The Converters -- 11.4 Of Compressors and Valves -- 11.5 The First Ammonia Plant at Oppau -- 12 Berlin 1911-1914 -- 12.1 The Patent War 1911-12 -- 12.2 Let Me Publish Be Damned! -- 12.3 The Secrets of Synthetic Ammonia Really Revealed? -- 12.4 Life in Berlin, 1913 -- 12.5 The Prelude to War
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (552 pages)
• Subjects: 620.0092; Engineers -- Great Britain -- Biography; Engineers; Great Britain; Electronic books; Electronic books; Electronic books; Biographies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030297145; 3030297144; 3030297136; 9783030297138; 9783030297152; 3030297152; 9783030297169; 3030297160
• Related ISBNs: 9783030297138
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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