This volume is based on the 6th BOC Priestley Conference and provides a platform for discussing oxygen's central role in many vital chemical processes. The book covers several themes including combustion processes, chemical synthesis, wet oxidation, and biological processes, each of which either directly or indirectly involves oxygen and oxygen transfer. Also included is a section devoted to the history of pollution and the gradual development of skills to protect the environment from varying sources of potential contamination - many of which involve oxygen as the ameliorating antidote. The Role of Oxygen in Improving Chemical Processes will be of interest to chemists, chemical engineers and environmental scientists, as well as to technologists working in a broad spectrum of processing where oxygen is a prime constituent.

Table of Contents:
BOC Centenary Lecture 1992 Improving on Nature with Oxygen C J Wright. Combustion Processes Part I Oxygen Transfer in Fluidized Combustion: Basic Science and its Application in Industry J F Davidson Influence of Oxygen on Ignition and Combustion of Single Coal and Char Particles D Schwartz, R Gadiou and G Prado The Shell Coal Gasification Process: An Efficient Clean Technology for Generating Power from Coal J E Naber, P J A Tijm and M M G Senden. Combustion Processes Part 2 The Role of Oxygen in New Steelmaking Technologies at ILVA Taranto G Frederico C Liscio, G S Malgarini and S Innocenti Ironmaking and Steelmaking Developments M J Corbett and R B Smith The Future for Oxygen in Steel Production Jean Michard Round Table Discussion Transcription of Discussion, R W Field, Bath University Historical Session: From Pollution to Protection Where even the Birds Cough: the First British Cases of Large-Scale Atmospheric Pollution by the Chemical Industry on Merseyside and Clydeside in the early 19th Century P N Reed Removing Mountains: Industrial Waste and the Environment N G Coley An Inspector Calls: Legislation on Air Pollution in Britain and its Chemical Implementation L Gittins Death in the Pot: Adulteration of Food and its Chemical Detection W A Campbell Succes et Problemes Rencontres par les Produits Agrochimique D Demozay Modern Improvements Brought About by the Chemical Industry: The Direct Oxidation of Olefins - a Contribution to its History Fred Aftalion Taking the Waters: Chemistry and Domestic Water Supply in Victorian Britain C A Russell -The Priestley Lecture 1992 La Nucleosynthese Stellaire de l'Oxygene Hubert Reeves Transcript of Lecture by R Corns, Societe Chimie Industrielle, Paris, France Chemical Synthesis Reactor Engineering Aspects of Gas-Liquid Oxidation Processes J Breysse Electropox: BP's Novel Oxidation Technology T J Mazanec, T L Cable and J G Frye Jr New Approaches to Large-Scale Selective Oxidation Processes R Ramachandran Synthesis Gas Production by Convective Reforming J G Ellis and A D Maunder Wet Oxidation and Biological Processes Use of Oxygen in the Pulp and Paper Industry I Croon Uses of Hydrogen Peroxide in Oxidizing Processes J P Schirmann Physical Aspects of the Oxidation of Waste Water John M Smith.