Color scheme important as aid to production

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1944
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 74 KB
• Volume: 238
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(44)90756-8

✦ Synopsis

July, I944.]

CURRENT TOPICS. 77 permitting its use in aircraft fuels. Previous to that time the research laboratories of the Shell Development Company, under the direction of Dr. E. C. Williams, had worked out a pilot plant process for its production. Its existence was made known by Dr. Williams to the U. S. Army, who ordered moo gallons.

The price quoted was $2.4o per gallon. The history of iso-octane and similar fuels as components of aviation gasoline was begun. Today commercial iso-octane is made at reasonable cost in tremendous quantities under trade names such as "alkylate" and "hydrocodimer" by a variety of processes developed to fit circumstances at individual refineries.

R. H. O.