Information AboutEugene Houdry |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT EUGENE HOUDRY | |
| mechanical engineers | |
| 1892 births | |
| 1962 deaths | |
| national inventors hall of fame | |
| houdry, eugene | |
|
The process was further developed by two MIT engineers, Warren K. Lewis and Edwin R. Gilliland , under contract to Standard Oil of New Jersey, now ExxonMobil . They developed the process into Fluid Catalytic Cracking , which solved the problem of having to shut down the process to burn the coke off the catalyst by using a continuously circulating fluidized catalyst made of a fine Zeolite powder . This process is still in widespread use, especially in the US where gasoline is in high demand. Houdry later became interested in automotive catalysts, and the Catalytic Converter was one of approximately 100 Patent s that he received. but nothing came of it until the 1970s because the Tetraethyl Lead that was still in use in the 1950s and 1960s poisoned the catalyst. EXTERNAL LINKS |
|
|