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001 2013045711
003 DLC
005 20140313080844.0
008 131113s2014 flua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013045711
020 $a9781439895108 (hardback : acid-free paper)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aTP217.P5$bG55 2014
082 00 $a661/.25$223
084 $aSCI013060$aTEC012000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aGilmour, Rodney.
245 10 $aPhosphoric acid :$bpurification, uses, technology, and economics /$cRodney Gilmour.
264 1 $aBoca Raton, FL :$bCRC Press/Taylor & Francis,$c[2014]
300 $axix, 334 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Preface Within three months of joining Albright & Wilson (A&W) and talk of handover plans for the leadership of the corporate engineering department, I was asked to help with its dismantlement, along with corporate research, in a bid to cut company overheads. This was the beginning of a turbulent period, initially of cost saving within A&W and subsequently of rationalization of the combined assets of A&W and Rhodia. Although formal technical reports were secure in company libraries, much of the detailed know-how was lost as experienced employees left. Subsequently, business units were sold off and sometimes closed, with the further loss of corporate memory. Eventually, even central libraries become neglected or even disappear, and knowledge and understanding is lost. Other industrial phosphate companies were going through the same process in a giant chess game of global rationalization. Meanwhile, the pioneers of the technology, whose names appear on the patents, are now old or have passed away. Therefore, I have written this book partly as a review of the technology and its progress since the 1960s to signpost where it came from and where it has got to before all understanding was lost; I have felt at times like the last Mohican. Chapter 1 includes a brief historical review to place the current technology in context. As I began to write it, I suspected that a number of significant technological leaps would emerge, and this has proven to be the case. "--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aPhosphoric acid.
650 0 $aPhosphoric acid$xIndustrial applications.
650 7 $aSCIENCE / Chemistry / Industrial & Technical.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aTECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Food Science.$2bisacsh