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Other Firms: A Period of Breakthrough Inventions

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Other significant petrochemical process developments occurred during the time SD was making important inventions. These include UOP Platforming, Monsanto’s carbonylation process for acetic acid, acrylonitrile from propylene, Shell Chemical’s SHOP process for alpha olefins and linear alcohols, vinyl acetate from ethylene, and ethylene oxychlorination. Established engineering companies were not targeting the development of new, complex technologies, because they did not have experienced researchers and did not want to compete with their industry client base.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Haensel (2006).

  2. 2.

    Spitz (1988). 176

  3. 3.

    Ibid 182.

  4. 4.

    Green and Witcoff (2003).

  5. 5.

    Weissermell and Arpe (1978).

  6. 6.

    Roth (1995).

  7. 7.

    Ibid.

  8. 8.

    Idol (1994).

  9. 9.

    Ibid.

  10. 10.

    Witcoff et al. (2004).

  11. 11.

    Peter H. Spitz op.cit. 403–404.

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Spitz, P.H. (2019). Other Firms: A Period of Breakthrough Inventions. In: Primed for Success: The Story of Scientific Design Company. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12314-7_9

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