Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Norbert Rillieux (1806-1894) sent this scale model of the Multiple Effect Vacuum Evaporator to the US Patent Office ...

Norbert Rillieux (1806-1894), widely considered to be one of the earliest chemical engineers, revolutionized sugar processing with the invention of the multiple effect evaporator under vacuum.

Various evaporation techniques are used to concentrate fluids in wide ranging industries including dairy, food, pharmaceutical and chemical. The reason for evaporation or distillation may be to ...

Norbert Rillieux, Allen Ramsey Wurtele and Leonard Julien had two things in common. They all were from south Louisiana, and their inventions forever changed the sugar cane industry. The three men ...

Experiments were conducted on laminate evaporator to determine the effect of the tank position on the evaporator heat transfer and pressure drop. The experiments were conducted on the evaporator ...

Chennai: Researchers at IIT Madras have developed a desalination system that uses sunlight and seawater to produce 10,000 litres of potable water a day. A compact version, which will soon be patented, ...

THE first meeting of the session of the Newcomen Society was held on October 8. Two papers were read, the first by Messrs. N. Deerr and A. Brooks dealing with the “Development of Evaporation in the ...