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20. Thomas Kilgore Sherwood
20. Thomas Kilgore Sherwood
Pages 504-522
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Taking strong stands on the problems of engineering education was one of his hallmarks. In the early stages of World War IT he was the finder of talent for military research in chemical engineering; in the war's late period he was in Europe gathering intelligence.
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· . ~ papers on heat transfer, rubber vulcanization, wet-bulb hygrometry, optimization of ammonia condensers, plate-column entrainment en cl Tootling are examples his dominant research up to Worict War IT was in mass transfer, papers on Drying of Solids I-VTI, absorption, extraction, packecItower and bubble-cap column performance.' But his most important contributions to chemical engineering in that prewar period were two books exerting far-reaching influence on chemical engineering teaching.
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But any mathematical defects in the book were far more than offset by the many stimulating examples of application to industrial practice; the book influenced chemical engineering curricula throughout the worm. A much-revised eclition, prepared chiefly by H
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Papers and lectures on science in eclucation, teacher development, research in education, creative accomplishment, and new frontiers in science were characteristic of that period. But his preference for research, teaching, and the organization of parts of chemical engineering science in book form pullet!
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He was technical adviser to the Office of Saline Water of the U.S. Department of the Interior from 1952 to 1961; in 1960 he chaired a planning committee for the Research Study at Woods Hole on Salt Water Conversion.
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Personal experience suggests a postscript to that: A year after the death of his first wife, Betty, Tom, Reg Wynn Tom's closest Montrealhighschoolassociate and spent an idyllic month in the Tetons. On a Grand Teton climb (up by the exciting Glenn Exom route; the Grand Teton was America's Matterhorn, and Exom had climbed the Matterhorn solo at age seventeens, our guide chose Tom to be the first, on our way down, to make a Il0-foot rappel down a cliff.
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Sherwood was one of the giants of twentieth-century chemical engineering.
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National Academy of Arts and Sciences American Society of Engineering Education American Chemical Society American Institute of Chemical Engineers (Councillor, 1947-49) American Society of Mechanical Engineers Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Alpha Chi Sigma Chemical Institute of Canada (Honorary Life Member)
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21:976. Chemical engineering education.
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Heat transmission to oil flowing in pipes; Effect of tube length.
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Reed. Applied Mathematics in Chemical Engineering.
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Vacuum dehydration using liquid absorbents.
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Graduate training in chemical engineering.
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Applied Mathematics in Chemical Engineering, 2nd ed.
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Desalination; evaporation reduction; artificial precipitation; large-scale weather and climate modification; natural resources; energy water and river basin development. Paper prepared for the U.lV.
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Salt concentration at the surface of tubular reverse osmosis membranes. Office of Saline Water, Department of the Interior Rep.
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The velocity and eddy viscosity distribution in the wall region of turbulent pipe flow.
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