(291b) Ernest W. Thiele: His Impact on Chemical Engineering
AIChE Annual Meeting
2008
2008 Annual Meeting
AIChE Centennial: ChE Research and Technology – Past and Future
Historical Perspectives on Development of New Processes: Co-Sponsored by Process Research and Innovation, Group 12a
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 12:55pm to 1:20pm
Ernest W. Thiele impacted and provided guidance to three areas of chemical engineering during each of their infancies. Those areas were:
distillation;
solid porous catalysis;
nuclear reactions and nuclear engineering.
This talk presents an appreciation of Thiele's career and discusses the impact Thiele had on distillation, catalysis, and nuclear engineering --- before it became nuclear engineering, when it was still chemical engineering.