2988. RUSHTON, J. H., AND STEVENSON, E. P. Developments in Oxygen Production. Chem. Eng. Progress, vol. 1, No. 2, 1947; Trans. Am. Inst. Chem. Eng., vol. 43, 1947, p. 61-69; Chem. Abs., vol. 41, 1947, p. 2213. Rushton and Stevenson review process considerations, the low-pressure processes, the 1,000 cu. ft. per hr. unit, the low-pressure plants, the high-pressure processes including the Keyes unit, the Le Rouget process, and other high-pressure plants; equipment developments in terms of lightweight, high-speed reciprocating and rotary compressors, interchange and fractionating equipment, columns and packing, and the purification of the gases from H2O and CO2. RUSOV, M. T. See abs. 2913. |