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About me

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Milton Beychok

I am a retired chemical engineer living with my wife in Newport Beach, California, USA. I spent the first 30 years of my career designing petroleum refineries, petrochemical plants, natural gas treating plants and other industrial facilities in various locations worldwide. For the next 20 years or so, I was an independent consulting engineer in the environmental field ... impact studies, permitting, wastewater and air pollution emission studies.

I am a graduate of Texas A & M, class of 1944 ... but didn't graduate until 1946 because I served 2 years in the army during World War II. I considered myself (during my working career) to be both a chemical engineer and an environmental engineer.

I am a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. I have published two engineering books and over 25 engineering articles in peer-reviewed journals as well as non-reviewed engineering trade magazines. At one time before I retired, I was also a Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers as well as a registered Professional Engineer in California, Texas and Delaware.

Want more? Visit my website here. Look around a bit and then you can read my bio at this page.

I joined Citizendium in January 2008 and have been very happy to be an active participant.

Some of my favorite quotes

• Life is what happens while you are planning it.
• If you want to hear God laugh, make a plan.
• The Second Law of Thermodynamics: There are no free lunches.

Articles that I created

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Chemical engineering (82)  Absorption (chemistry)  Acid dew point  Aeration basin  Air preheater  Air stripping  American Institute of Chemical Engineers  Ammonia production  Antoine equation  Atmosphere (unit)  Bar (unit)  Boiling point  Catalysis  Centrifugal fan  Chemical engineering  Chemical reaction  Choked flow  Compressibility factor (gases)  Concentration  Condensate polishing  Condensation (phase transition)  Continuous distillation  Control valve  Conventional coal-fired power plant  Deaerator  Edwin Richard Gilliland  Entrainment (engineering)  Expansion turbine  Factor-label conversion of units  Fenske equation  Flash evaporation  Flue gas  Flue gas desulfurization  Flue gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion  Flue gas stack  Gallon  Gas compressor  Gas stoichiometry  Hazard and Operability Study  Heat of combustion  Heat of vaporization  Henry's law

Chemical engineering (cont'd)  Hydrocarbon dew point  Hydrometer  Industrial cooling tower  Injector  Inorganic chemistry  Large-scale trickle filters  Liquid viscosity blending  Joule-Thomson effect  McCabe-Thiele method  Molar volume  Mole fraction  Packed bed  Partial pressure  Parts-per notation  Piping (engineering)  Pound (mass)  Pressure  Process design  Process flow diagram  Process Safety Management (United States)  Reboiler  Reference conditions of gas temperature and pressure  Refineries  Reflux (distillation)  Relative volatility  Relief valve  Souders-Brown equation  Specific heat ratio  Standard Cubic Feet Per Minute  Steam  Steam generator  Surface condenser  Theoretical plate  Tonne  U.S. customary units  Vapor-compression refrigeration  Vapor pressure  Venturi tube  Volatility (chemistry)  Warren K. Lewis  Water dew point

Petroleum Refining and gas processing (29)  Acid gas  Amine gas treating  API gravity  API oil-water separator  Asphalt (petroleum)  Catalytic reforming  Claus process  Crude oil desalter  Delayed coking  Dissolved air flotation  Flare stack  Fluid catalytic cracking  Gasoline  Glycol dehydration  Hydrocracking  Hydrodesulfurization  Merox  Natural gas  Natural gas condensate  Natural gas processing  Petrochemicals  Petroleum crude oil  Petroleum naphtha  Petroleum refining processes  Reid vapor pressure  Sour gas  Tetraethyl lead  Upstream, midstream and downstream (petroleum industry)  Vacuum distillation  Visbreaking Books (7)  Aqueous Wastes from Petroleum and Petrochemical Plants  Distillation Design  Fundamentals of Stack Gas Dispersion  Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook  Transport Phenomena  Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering  Workbook of Atmospheric Dispersion Estimates Other articles (12)  American National Standards Institute  ASTM International  de Laval nozzle  International Bureau of Weights and Measures  International Organization for Standardization  International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry  Kilowatt hour  Laws of conservation Help:Index/Formatting/References Help:Index/Communication/Talk/Archiving Help:Index/Formatting/Links/External Help:Index/Uploading/Revising Licenses

Air pollution dispersion / Environmental / Atmospheric science articles (43)  Accidental release source terms  ADMS atmospheric dispersion modeling system  AERMOD air pollution dispersion model  Air  Air pollutant concentrations  Air pollution emissions  Air pollution dispersion modeling  Air pollution dispersion terminology  Air Quality Index  Air Quality Modeling Group  Air Resources Laboratory  AP 42 Compilation of Air Pollutant Emission Factors  Atmospheric lapse rate  Atmospheric pressure  Built environment  California Air Resources Board  California Environmental Protection Agency  Clean Air Act (U.S.)  CALPUFF air pollution dispersion model  Czech Hydrometeorological Institute  Earth's atmosphere  European Environment Agency  Federal Environment Agency of Germany  Finnish Meteorological Institute  Meteorology  Met Office  National Ambient Air Quality Standards  National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center  National Center for Atmospheric Research  National Environmental Research Institute of Denmark  Natural environment  Netherlands National Institute for Public Health and the Environment  Norwegian Institute for Air Research  Pollutant  Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute  Royal Meteorological Society  Smog  South Coast Air Quality Management District  Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute  UK Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling Liaison Committee  UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs  UK Environment Agency  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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Articles to which I have contributed or edited significantly

Articles to which I have contributed or edited significantly (35)  Acid rain  Asphalt (paving)  Carbon capture and storage  Chemical elements  Coal  Coal mining  Combined gas law  Combustion  Density (chemistry)  Energy (science)  Environmental chemistry  Fluid dynamics  Friction (science)  Gas  Gold  Haber process  Hydrocarbons  Ideal gas law

Articles to which I have contributed or edited significantly (cont'd)  Laws of thermodynamics  Logarithm  National Institute of Standards and Technology  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration  Nitrogen cycle  Outer space  Perpetual motion machine  pH  Pump  Reactionless propulsion  Renewable energy  Rocket engine  Square kilometre Sulfur  Thermodynamics  Wind  Water