Hans Tropsch

Hans Tropsch ( born October 7, 1889 in Plan ( West Bohemia), † October 8, 1935 in Essen ) was a German chemist.

Life

The Egerlander attended until 1907 the Kaiser- Franz -Joseph -Realschule in plan and studied at the German Technical University in Prague and at the German University in Prague. In 1913 he received his doctorate with a thesis about new derivatives of pyridine to the Dr. -Ing. After a wizard - time with Hans Leopold Meyer 1914-1916 he went an industrial activity in Mülheim am Main to. In the meeting notes of the Vienna Academy of Sciences in 1914, he can present his first major study. 1916-17 he worked in a Farbstoffabrik in Mülheim an der Ruhr and then briefly at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim also. 1917-20 he worked in Rüttgerswerk in Niederau.

1920-28 he was back at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, where he collaborated with director Franz Fischer and Otto Roelen, from 1923 examined the conversion of synthesis gas (CO and H2) in long-chain organic substances and until 1925 the Fischer- Tropsch synthesis ( FTS) developed (patent 484 337, July 25, 1925 and Patent 524 468, November 2, 1926). It has by Ruhr Chemie AG in competition with the IG ( the hydrogenation of the Bergius - Pier preferred ) promoted. (Rudolf Schenck had developed in Munich 1922-26 regardless of a similar process. ) Following the introduction of exchange controls in 1931, the FTS has been applied on a large scale since 1933. Tropsch and Hans Schrader were Heads of Departments. His successor in 1928 here Kurt Peters.

In 1928 he followed a call to Prague, where he was to set up and manage a new coal research institute. In 1930 he completed his habilitation in the chemistry of fuels at the German Technical University in Prague.

In 1931 he went to the USA and worked for Universal Oil Products and the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago. Due to health problems, he returned in 1935 returned to Germany, where he died shortly thereafter at a hospital in Essen.

Publications

  • About the conductivity of the amines and dicarboxylic acids of pyridine; 1914
  • Development, performance and utilization of coal; Berlin, Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1930
  • Catalytic reactions: lectures; Armour Institute of Technology, 1931
  • Regarding the synthesis of petroleum hydrocarbons from carbon; 1931
  • Vaclav Jelinek: conversion of methane to aromatic hydrocarbons and hydrogen by Thermal decomposition of CH4 or CH4 - containing gases; In Chemistry Central Journal
  • Vaclav Jelinek: The determination of small amounts leichtsiedener hydrocarbons in the presence of water
  • With Robert Kassler ( from the Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry of the German Technical University in Prague; carbon Research Institute ): About some catalytic properties of rhenium; in: Reports of the German Chemical Society, 1930
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