This polyvinyl alcohol unit at the Niagara Falls plant of DuPont's Electrochemicals Department is characteristic of the costly and complicated equipment used by the chemical industry. DuPont has an average investment of $26,900 per employee in...
Paperwork for alcohol permits during the era of Prohibition that allowed for the manufacture of fragrance and cosmetic products, also included with this permit is a letter from Maurice Campbell, Federal Prohibition Administrator
50,000 gallon alcohol tanks. Miscellaneous alcohol fractions. The background shows two of five process gas holders, ranging from 100,000 to 750,000 cubic feet capacity. Seen leaving the top of one of th tanks, center, is Frank Anerson of the Belle...
This complicated array of pipes, stills, tanks and steel structure is a portion of the Elvanol polyvinyl alcohol plant of the DuPont Electrochemicals Department at Niagara Fall s NY. Some idea is gained of the intricate equipment required for the...
DuPont Elvanol polyvinyl alcohol manufactured by the Electrochemicals Department at Niagara Fall NY in the above plant, finds many unique and varied uses, ranging from oil resistant flexible hose to a knitting size for nylon hosiery. This versatile...
Solvent recovery unit in Elvanol polyvinyl alcohol area at Niagara Falls NY plant of DuPont's Electrochemicals Department. This versatile product finds use as a water resistant adhesive, textile warp size, paper size, emulsifying agent,...
Formaldehyde for plastics and other uses is made from methyl alcohol (methanol) and air. These are the big storage tanks for methanol at the Perth Amboy NJ plant of DuPont's Electrochemicals Department where formaldehyde is manufactured. The...
Refining of crude alcohol, represented by the two bottles on the bottom step, at the Belle WV plant of the DuPont Company's Polychemicals Department, produces five intermediate alcohols, represented by bottles on the second step, and finally the...
Transparent gloves made from the new vinyl resin, polyvinyl alcohol now being introduced by DuPont under the PVA. They are impervious to the action of oils, gasoline and most organic solvents.
Within the last few years, the chemist has developed a new kind of soap. Starting with ordinary vegetable and animal oils, the chemist now makes fatty alcohols which, in combination with sulfuric acid and other chemicals gives a new class of...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Textile industry; Plastics industry; Explosives industry;
Table of Contents: Spinning dreams into yarn; Birth of a fiber; Cinderella's slipper is plastic now; Taming static; Timber is for a gold mine; Alcohol and paper do mix; Lost in the laboratory; The pop that pays; Tri: the double-duty solvent; New...
A 1910 model Buick towers over the low slung XP-300, a "dream" car built by Buick for experimental purposes. The XP-300 is the latest creation of Charles A. Chayne, seated, vice president of General Motors in charge of the engineering staff. He is...
Plenty of forests like this in Canada where, after the timber is taken out, there will be an abundance of wood from which alcohol, can be made from waste wood.
The Sabine River Works of the DuPont Company, built on a 1,000 acre tract three miles southwest of Orange, employs 1,700 men and women in the manufacture of chemical intermediates for nylon as well as methanol (synthetic wood alcohol) and plastic...
Night and day, the Sabine River Works of the DuPont Company, built on a 1,000 acre tract three miles southwest of Orange, employs 1,700 men and women in the manufacture of chemical intermediates for nylon as well as methanol (synthetic wood...
