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Later he did original work on synthetic fuels and the use of hydrogen for improvement of petroleum derivatives and reduction of ores to metals. His most notable engineering achievement was the inspiring leadership he gave to development and engineering of the K-25 Gaseous Diffusion Plant for production of uranium-235, whose successful operation did so much to bring victory in World War II.
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In 1932 he returned to Kellogg in New York as VicePresident for Research and Engineering. The early 1930s was the period of rapid growth for petroleum refining, and Keith and Kellogg pioneered in the development of thermal cracking and reforming and delayed coking.
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Mr. Keith convinced first Lewis and then Groves that the gaseous diffusion process could succeed.
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, and American Association for the Advancement of Science. He obtained more than seventy patents and wrote several articles on petroleum refining, the Manhattan Project, oxygen production, and synthetic fuels.
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PERCIVAL CLEVELAND KEITH, JR. 151 engineers.
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