Today's KNOWLEDGE Share:Petrochemical Historical Timeline-2
Today's KNOWLEDGE Share:
Petrochemical Historical Timeline-21878 John D. Rockefeller controlled 90% of the oil refineries in the United States.
1879 The first synthetic rubber was created.
1888 The study of liquid crystals began in Austria when scientist Friedrich Reinitzer found that a material known as cholesteryl benzoate had two different melting points. However, it has only been in the last few decades that liquid crystal use has come into its own with uses including mobile phones, electronic toys and computer screens.
1900 Texas, California and Oklahoma all produced oil. Annual US production at 64 million barrels.
1909 The discovery of Bakelite was announced. Considered the world’s first plastic,it was invented by Belgian Leo Hendrik Baekeland when he tried to
make a substitute or shellac. It helped transform the radio industry in the 1930s.
1908 First major discovery of oil in Iran.
1912 German chemist Fritz Klatte develops a new process for producing PVC using sunlight.He was the first to patent PVC but had difficulties processing the sometimes brittle polymer.
1913 High-pressure hydrogenation process for transforming heavy oils into lighter oils developed by German organic chemist Friedrich Bergius.
1913 Thermal cracking patented as a method of oil refining by chemical engineers, William Burton and Robert Humphreys, of Standard Oil.
1914-1918 During World War I, Germany started large-scale production of synthetic rubber and further investigations into its production continued after the war.
(to be continued)
Source:WPC Guide
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