Octave Levenspiel

Octave Levenspiel (* 1926 in Shanghai, China) is an emeritus professor of chemical engineering at Oregon State University.

He is regarded as the founder of Chemical Reaction Engineering, a branch of chemical engineering that deals with the study of reaction kinetics for the purpose of interpretation of chemical reactors.

Levenspiel was born in Shanghai, where he attended a German elementary school, a high school English and a French university. It studied at the University of Berkeley and at Oregon State University, where in 1952 he earned a doctorate in philosophy.

He is the inventor of the so-called " Levenspiel fountain " (see web link), a special type of diffusion machine.

Levenspiel received numerous honors and awards, and others to R. H. Wilhelm Award of AIChE, the W. K. Lewis Award of the AIChE, the Founders Award with Gold Medal of the AIChE, the ChE Lectureship award of the ASEE, the P. V. Danckwerts - prize of egos, honorary doctorates in France, Serbia and the Colorado School of Mines, inclusion in the National Academy of Engineering ( 2000) and the prize of the Amundson ( Isère / NASCRE ).

• Chemical Reaction Engineering. Wiley; 3 Sub edition, 1998, ISBN 047125424X
• The Chemical Reactor Omnibook. Oregon St Univ Bookstores, 1993, ISBN 0882461605
• Fluidization Engineering ( co-author ). Butterworth -Heinemann Ltd, 1991, ISBN 0409902330
• Engineering Flow and Heat Exchange. Plenum Pub Corp, 1984, ISBN 0306415992
• Understanding Engineering Thermo. Prentice Hall PTR, 1996, ISBN 0135312035