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A Brief History of Chemical Reactor and Reaction Technology
Author(s) -
Kockmann Norbert
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
chemie ingenieur technik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1522-2640
pISSN - 0009-286X
DOI - 10.1002/cite.201900001
Subject(s) - industrialisation , chemical reaction engineering , chemical reactor , chemical technology , term (time) , reactor design , industrial revolution , engineering , waste management , process engineering , environmental science , chemical engineering , biochemical engineering , chemistry , nuclear engineering , political science , history , catalysis , physics , archaeology , biochemistry , quantum mechanics , law
The term “chemical reactor” appears for the first time in open literature at the end of First World War, while in Germany the term “reaction technology” was coined in the 1950s, although chemical reactions and processes have been known for thousands of years. In the early days, reactors were furnaces and pots, which specialized further over the centuries. With the Industrial Revolution many reactor types were already known, and industrialization brought an enormous innovation thrust in the field of products as well as technologies. The diversity of reactors today is almost uncomprehensive and so efforts to standardize apparatus are understandable.