FLOWTRAN System archive, 1962-1998

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FLOWTRAN System archive, 1962-1998

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/370961572

This collection covers all phases of the FLOWTRAN System Project from its inception to its partial abandonment by Monsanto. There are both confidential and for publication materials in the collection. These items include instruction manuals, correspondence, white papers, reports, and reprints of published papers.

6 boxes (6 linear ft.)

Chemical Heritage Foundation, Othmer Library of Chemical History

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SNAC Resource ID: 7390336

Chemical Heritage Foundation, Othmer Library of Chemical History

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Monsanto Company

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Monsanto Chemical Works of Saint Louis (Missouri) was founded in 1901 by John Queeny and named for his wife, Olga Monsanto. The company's first commercially successful product was saccharin followed shortly thereafter by refined caffeine, vanillin, and aspirin. Within thirty years, largely under the influence of Queeny's son Edgar, Monsanto Chemical Works expanded its business and product portfolio to include a number of manufacturing facilities in both the United States and abroad. In 1933, the...

Rosen, Edward M.

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FLOWTRAN was designed to allow industrial chemists to run simulations of various chemical reactions. Although originally intended for industrial use it became popular in the academic world as well. As the demand for increasingly sophisticated analyses grew FLOWTRAN was supplanted by HYSIM another Monsanto product. Robert H. Cavitt, whose papers are interspersed throughout the collection, was instrumental in the development of FlowTran, as it was he who advocated the building block architecture o...

Cavitt, Robert H.

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