1992 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
History of an Idea of "Chemical Process" in Prewar
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03680096
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
科学技術史(含科学社会学・科学技術基礎理論)
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| Research Institution | RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
JIDO Yuji Ritsumeikan University, Faculty of Business Administration, Professor, 経営学部, 教授 (80066703)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1991 – 1992
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| Keywords | chemical process / chemical apparatus / history of chemical engineering / acid-alkali industry / iodide industry |
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| Research Abstract |
1. We studied the history of formation of the idea, "chemical process" in Japan concerning the followings :
(1) historical changes of terminologies of operation, apparatus and process in the textbooks of chemical technologies, industrial chemistries, chemical engineering and other allied fields concerning acid industries and alkali ones in prewar Japan.
(2) problems on chemical resources on which the development of combination processes depend.
(3) a historical process of investigations on technologies in production processes in factories.
(4) and effects that the industrial development in construction of chemical apparatus gave to the formation of the idea of "chemical process" in 1930s.
2. We obtained the following results
(1) main operations remained empirical in the sulfuric acid industry and iodide one where resources were abundant in Meiji period. To the contrary, in the case of the soda industry where resources were not always abundant, engineering methods were introduced and developed.
(2) in 1930s, an scientific understanding on various chemical processes proceeded under the condition that chemical apparatuses had to be designed and constructed in Japan, but there remained many confusions in terminologies on "apparatus", "machine", "process" and allied ones.
(3) discussions on the terminologies, "chemical machine" and "chemical apparatus" played an important role to progress the understanding on "chemical process", while "unit operation" in USA, and "Verfahren" or "Apparat" in Germany.
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