Today's KNOWLEDGE Share: Petrochemical Historical Timeline 3:

Today's KNOWLEDGE Share:

Petrochemical Historical Timeline 3:

1920s-1940s A busy era for petrochemicals with nylon, acrylics and polyester materials developed,as well as new compounds derived from

oil-refining by-products entering the market.Other successful materials included polystyrene,polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and polyethylene. Nylon,

acrylics and polyester developed for a wide range of uses, such as clothing, sports gear, industrial equipment, parachutes and plexiglass.

1920 German chemist Hermann Staudinger recognised that polystyrene is made up of many styrene molecules joined together in a chain.

1925 US oil production exceeded 1 billion barrels.

1925 Synthetic fuels pioneered with the development of the Fischer-Tropsch process by German researchers Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch. Coal, biomass or natural gas could now be converted into synthetic fuels.

1926 IG Farben acquired patent rights to the Bergius hydrogenation process. Carl Bosch had already been working on high pressure hydrogenation processes for IG Farben.

1926 American inventor Waldo Semon plasticised PVC by blending it with different additives to create a more flexible material.

1927 First major discovery of oil in Iraq.

1928 Portable offshore drilling on a submersible barge pioneered by Texan merchant marine captain Louis Giliasso.

1929 Scientists at chemical company BASF developed a way to commercially manufacture polystyrene based on Staudinger’s findings and a year later, large-scale polystyrene production started.

(to be continued)

Source:WPC Guide

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