Today's KNOWLEDGE Share:Petrochemicals Historical timeline- Part 6

Today's KNOWLEDGE Share:

Petrochemicals Historical timeline- Part 6

1941 Polyethylene terephthalate – or PET – is developed from ethylene and paraxylene. It was originally used in synthetic fibres, was first used in packaging in the mid-1960s and pioneered for bottles in the early 1970s. It was first recycled in 1977.

1942 The first catalytic cracking unit was put on stream by Standard Oil in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

1946 DuPont buys all legal rights for polyester and develops Dacron, a second polyester fibre.

1946 It is believed that the first synthetic detergents were developed by the Germans in World War I because of a shortage of fats for making traditional soaps. In 1946, there was a breakthrough in detergent development when

the first man-made detergent, containing a surfactant/builder combination, was introduced in the US.

1947 German-born American chemical engineer Vladimir Haensel invents platforming, a process for producing cleaner burning high-octane fuels.

The process uses a platinum catalyst to speed up chemical reactions.

1949 BASF chemist Fritz Stastny started work on a process to turn polystyrene into a foam form. In 1951, he succeeded and turned STYRON, a

substance that is 98% air, into one of the world’s most successful plastics.

Source:World Petroleum Council Guide

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