QUIZ : PIONEERS OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY
This Quiz should be easy for Chemical Engineers and interesting for others.
1) Employing more than 50000 people The Dow Chemical Company manufactured more than 5000 products at 214 locations in 37 countries for sales of US$ 45 billion in 2009. It is the largest chemical company in US and the 2nd largest in the world. The company was founded in 1895 by Herbert Henry Dow. For the extraction of which chemical did Dow obtain his first patent in 1889?
2) An event of far reaching consequence took place at Sun Oil Company’s Marcus Hook Refinery, Pennsylvania in 1937 when the first commercial scale Catalytic Cracking plant went on stream. This process more than doubled the output of petrol from crude petroleum and also considerably improved the quality of petrol. The man behind this revolutionary chemical process was strangely enough, a French mechanical engineer. What is his name?
3) In the 1920’s two chemists at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute developed a trailblazing process to convert coal into petroleum. During World War II, coal rich Germany relied heavily on this synthetic petroleum to power its war machines. After the discovery of oil in Middle East, this synthetic route went into near oblivion. But there has been renewed interest in this process in recent times of energy crunch. What is the name of this process?
4) Feeding the world’s population would be unthinkable without the use of Ammonia based fertilizers. Which company built world’s first Ammonia plant in 1913 based on the process developed by Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch? Today it is the world’s largest chemical company.
5) The world's first synthetic fibre was not presented to the scientific society but to three thousand women's club members gathered at the site of the 1939 New York World's Fair.
What was this fibre invented by Wallace Hume Carothers and his team in the laboratories of the DuPont company? Tragically Carothers killed himself in 1937 before the true magnitude of his invention could become evident.
1) Employing more than 50000 people The Dow Chemical Company manufactured more than 5000 products at 214 locations in 37 countries for sales of US$ 45 billion in 2009. It is the largest chemical company in US and the 2nd largest in the world. The company was founded in 1895 by Herbert Henry Dow. For the extraction of which chemical did Dow obtain his first patent in 1889?
2) An event of far reaching consequence took place at Sun Oil Company’s Marcus Hook Refinery, Pennsylvania in 1937 when the first commercial scale Catalytic Cracking plant went on stream. This process more than doubled the output of petrol from crude petroleum and also considerably improved the quality of petrol. The man behind this revolutionary chemical process was strangely enough, a French mechanical engineer. What is his name?
3) In the 1920’s two chemists at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute developed a trailblazing process to convert coal into petroleum. During World War II, coal rich Germany relied heavily on this synthetic petroleum to power its war machines. After the discovery of oil in Middle East, this synthetic route went into near oblivion. But there has been renewed interest in this process in recent times of energy crunch. What is the name of this process?
4) Feeding the world’s population would be unthinkable without the use of Ammonia based fertilizers. Which company built world’s first Ammonia plant in 1913 based on the process developed by Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch? Today it is the world’s largest chemical company.
5) The world's first synthetic fibre was not presented to the scientific society but to three thousand women's club members gathered at the site of the 1939 New York World's Fair.
What was this fibre invented by Wallace Hume Carothers and his team in the laboratories of the DuPont company? Tragically Carothers killed himself in 1937 before the true magnitude of his invention could become evident.
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