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==About me==
==About me==
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{{Image|Milt Beychok.jpg|right|119px|Milton Beychok}}  
{{Image|Milt Beychok.jpg|right|119px|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 retired chemical engineer living with my wife in Newport Beach, California, USA. I spent the first part of my career (about 30 years)  working in and 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 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.
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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.
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 [http://www.air-dispersion.com/ here].  Look around a bit and then you can read my bio at
Want more? Visit my website [http://www.air-dispersion.com/ here].  
[http://www.air-dispersion.com/interest.html#Author this page].


I joined Citizendium in January 2008 and have been very happy to be an active participant.
I joined Citizendium in January 2008 and have been very happy to be an active participant.
===My functional roles in Citizendium===
* A member  of the 5-person [[CZ:Management Council|Management Council]]
* An [[CZ:The Editor Role|Editor]] in the [[:Category:Engineering Workgroup|Engineering Workgroup]] and the [[:Category:Chemistry Workgroup|Chemistry Workgroup]] as well as the [[:Category:Chemical Engineering Subgroup|Chemical Engineering Subgroup]] and the [[:Category:Environmental Engineering Subgroup|Environmental  Engineering Subgroup]]


==Some of my favorite quotes==
==Some of my favorite quotes==
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==Articles that I created==
==Biography==
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[[Image:Level0.jpg|10px]] (Approved)&nbsp;
'''''Academic credentials:'''''
[[Image:Level1.jpg|10px]] (Status 1) &nbsp; [[Image:Level2.jpg|10px]] (Status 2) &nbsp;
* B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1946.
[[Image:Level3.jpg|10px]] (Status 3) &nbsp;
[[Image:level4.jpg|10px]] (External)


{{pl|Meteorology|Example article1}} [[Image:Approval button.png|13px]] (Nominated for approval) &nbsp; &nbsp;
'''''Work and other experience:'''''
{{pl|Merox|Example article2}} [[Image:Approval button.png|13px]] (Nominated for reapproval)
*1943 - 1946: Between my junior and senior  years at Texas A&M, served in the 100th Infantry Division in France and Germany. Held ranks of 2nd Lieutenant and 1st Lieutenant. Discharged as a Captain after war ended.
*1946 - 1948: Worked in chemical engineering research at the Shell Oil Refinery in the Houston, Texas area.
*1949 - 1953: Worked as chief chemist and as chemical engineer at the Rothschild Oil Refinery in the Los Angeles, California area.
*1954 - 1975: Worked as chemical process design engineer for Fluor Engineers and Constructors in Los Angeles, California and in London, England. 
*1976 - 1999: Worked in my own practice as an independent consulting engineer.


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'''''Distinctinctions, honors and awards:'''''
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* 1970, "Technical Achievement Award", Southern California section, American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE)
*'''Chemical engineering (82)'''
* 1973 -1975, Served an appointment on the California Regional Water Quality Control Board
*{{pl|Absorption (chemistry)}}
* 1974 - 1975, Served on AIChE Speakers Bureau Tour
*{{pl|Acid dew point}}
* 1976, Keynote speaker, "Open Forum on Management of Petroleum Refinery Wastewaters", jointly sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, American Petroleum Institute and the National Petroleum Refiners Association, at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma
*{{pl|Aeration basin}}
* 1976, "Environmental Division Award", the national American Institute of Chemical Engineers
*{{pl|Air preheater}}
* 1978-1980, Chairman, Petroleum Committee, Air Pollution Control Association, now the Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA)
*{{pl|Air stripping}}
* 1978 - 1980, Director of Environmental Division, national  American Institute of Chemical Engineers
*{{pl|American Institute of Chemical Engineers}}
* Elected as a Fellow of the national American Institute of Chemical Engineers (Don't remember the date)
*{{pl|Ammonia production}}
* Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers (Don't remember the date)  
*{{pl|Antoine equation}}
*{{pl|Atmosphere (unit)}}
*{{pl|Bar (unit)}}
*{{pl|Boiling point}}
*{{pl|Catalysis}}
*{{pl|Centrifugal fan}}
*{{pl|Chemical engineering}}
*{{pl|Chemical reaction}}
*{{pl|Choked flow}}
*{{pl|Compressibility factor (gases)}}
*{{pl|Concentration}}
*{{pl|Condensate polishing}}
*{{pl|Condensation (phase transition)}}
*{{pl|Continuous distillation}}
*{{pl|Control valve}}
*{{pl|Conventional coal-fired power plant}}
*{{pl|Deaerator}}
*{{pl|Edwin Richard Gilliland}}
*{{pl|Entrainment (engineering)}}
*{{pl|Expansion turbine}}
*{{pl|Factor-label conversion of units}}
*{{pl|Fenske equation}}
*{{pl|Flash evaporation}}
*{{pl|Flue gas}}
*{{pl|Flue gas desulfurization}}
*{{pl|Flue gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion}}
*{{pl|Flue gas stack}}
*{{pl|Gallon}}
*{{pl|Gas compressor}}
*{{pl|Gas stoichiometry}}
*{{pl|Hazard and Operability Study}}
*{{pl|Heat of combustion}}
*{{pl|Heat of vaporization}}
*{{pl|Henry's law}}
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*'''Chemical engineering (cont'd)'''
*{{pl|Hydrocarbon dew point}}
*{{pl|Hydrometer}}
*{{pl|Industrial cooling tower}}
*{{pl|Injector}}
*{{pl|Inorganic chemistry}}
*{{pl|Large-scale trickle filters}}
*{{pl|Liquid viscosity blending}}
*{{pl|Joule-Thomson effect}}
*{{pl|McCabe-Thiele method}}
*{{pl|Molar volume}}
*{{pl|Mole fraction}}
*{{pl|Packed bed}}
*{{pl|Partial pressure}}
*{{pl|Parts-per notation}}
*{{pl|Piping (engineering)}}
*{{pl|Pound (mass)}}
*{{pl|Pressure}}
*{{pl|Process design}}
*{{pl|Process flow diagram}}
*{{pl|Process Safety Management (United States)}}
*{{pl|Reboiler}}
*{{pl|Reference conditions of gas temperature and pressure}}
*{{pl|Refineries}}
*{{pl|Reflux (distillation)}}
*{{pl|Relative volatility}}
*{{pl|Relief valve}}
*{{pl|Souders-Brown equation}}
*{{pl|Specific heat ratio}}
*{{pl|Standard Cubic Feet Per Minute}}
*{{pl|Steam}}
*{{pl|Steam generator}}
*{{pl|Surface condenser}}
*{{pl|Theoretical plate}}
*{{pl|Tonne}}
*{{pl|U.S. customary units}}
*{{pl|Vapor-compression refrigeration}}
*{{pl|Vapor pressure}}
*{{pl|Venturi tube}}
*{{pl|Volatility (chemistry)}}
*{{pl|Warren K. Lewis}}
*{{pl|Water dew point}}
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*Books:
*'''Petroleum Refining and gas processing (29)'''
**''Aqueous Wastes from Petroleum and Petrochemical Plant'', John Wiley and Sons, 1967
*{{pl|Acid gas}}
**''Fundamentals of Stack Gas Dispersion'', self-published, 1979 (Ist Edition), 2005 (4th Edition)
*{{pl|Amine gas treating}}
*Major consulting reports:
*{{pl|API gravity}}
**''Process and environmental technology for producing SNG and liquid fuels'' EPA/2-75-011, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, May 1975
*{{pl|API oil-water separator}}
**''Comparative economics of advanced regenerable flue gas desulfurization processes'', EPRI CS-1381, Electric Power Research Institute, March 1980
*{{pl|Asphalt (petroleum)}}
*Articles in peer-reviewed journal, conferences and other technical publications (partial list)
*{{pl|Catalytic reforming}}
**"Algebraic solution of McCabe-Thiele diagram", ''Chemical Engineering Progress'', May 1951
*{{pl|Claus process}}
**"Naphthenates from spent caustic", ''Petroleum Processing'', May 1952
*{{pl|Crude oil desalter}}
**"Cooling tower control variables", ''Petroleum Processing'', October 1952
*{{pl|Delayed coking}}
**"First postwar butadiene plant", ''Petroleum Refiner'', June 1957
*{{pl|Dissolved air flotation}}
**"Design of sour water strippers", Seventh World Petroleum Congress, Mexico, April 1967
*{{pl|Flare stack}}
**"Performance of surface-aerated basins",'' WATER-1970, Chemical Engineering Progress Symposium Series 107'', Volume 67, 1971
*{{pl|Fluid catalytic cracking}}
**"Wastewater treatment processes", Instituto de Ingenieros Quimicos, Puerto Rico, July 1971
*{{pl|Gasoline}}
**"Wastewater treatment", ''Hydrocarbon Processing'', December 1971
*{{pl|Glycol dehydration}}
**"NOx emissions  from  fuel  combustion", ''Oil and Gas Journal'', February 26, 1973
*{{pl|Hydrocracking}}
**"Clean energy via coal gasification", 18th Annual New Mexico Water Conference, Las Cruces, New Mexico April 1973
*{{pl|Hydrodesulfurization}}
**"Coal gasification and the Phenolsolvan process", American Chemical Society 168th National Meeting, Atlantic City, September 1974
*{{pl|Merox}}
**"Coping with SO2", ''Chemical Engineering'', October 21, 1974
*{{pl|Natural gas}}
**"Environmental factors in producing supplemental fuels", ''Hydrocarbon Processing'', October 1975
*{{pl|Natural gas condensate}}
**"Sulfur emissions control for a coal gasification plant", EPA Conference on Environmental Aspects of Solid Fuel Conversion, Florida, December 1975
*{{pl|Natural gas processing}}
**"Options for SO2 reduction", U.S. EPA Symposium on Flue Gas Desulfurization, Florida, November 1977 (co-authored with A.V. Slack)
*{{pl|Petrochemicals}}
**"A data base of dioxin and furan emissions from municipal refuse incinerators", ''Atmospheric Environment'', January 1987
*{{pl|Petroleum crude oil}}
**"Dioxin, furan, particulate and trace metal emissions from municipal refuse incinerators", American Flame Research Committee International Symposium on Incineration  of Hazardous, Municipal and Other Wastes, Palm Springs, California, November 1987
*{{pl|Petroleum naphtha}}
**"Error propagation in stack gas dispersion models", ''The National Environmental Journal'', January and February, 1996
*{{pl|Petroleum refining processes}}
**"Calculating flow rates for accidental gas releases", ''Environmental Technology'', January and February, 1997
*{{pl|Reid vapor pressure}}
*{{pl|Sour gas}}
*{{pl|Tetraethyl lead}}
*{{pl|Upstream, midstream and downstream (petroleum industry)}}
*{{pl|Vacuum distillation}}
*{{pl|Visbreaking}}


*'''Books (7)'''
'''''Citizendium articles:'''''
*{{pl|Aqueous Wastes from Petroleum and Petrochemical Plants}}
*Articles which I created and for which I was the major contributor:
*{{pl|Distillation Design}}
**'''A total of 183 articles  of which 28 achieved Approved status. See [[User:Milton Beychok/Articles|Articles]] for complete, detailed list.'''
*{{pl|Fundamentals of Stack Gas Dispersion}}
*Articles to which I significantly contributed or edited:
*{{pl|Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook}}
**'''A total of 35 various engineering, chemistry, physics and other technical articles of which 3 achieved Approved status. See [[User:Milton Beychok/Articles|Articles]] for complete, detailed list.'''
*{{pl|Transport Phenomena}}
*{{pl|Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering}}
*{{pl|Workbook of Atmospheric Dispersion Estimates}}


*'''Other articles (11)'''
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*{{pl|American National Standards Institute}}
*{{pl|ASTM International}}
*{{pl|de Laval nozzle}}
*{{pl|International Bureau of Weights and Measures}}
*{{pl|International Organization for Standardization}}
*{{pl|International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry}}
*{{pl|Kilowatt hour}}
*{{pl|Laws of conservation}}
*[[Help:Index/Formatting/References]]
*[[Help:Index/Communication/Talk/Archiving]]
*[[Help:Index/Formatting/Links/External]]
{{col-break}}
*'''Air pollution dispersion / Environmental / Atmospheric science articles (40)'''
*{{pl|Accidental release source terms}}
*{{pl|ADMS atmospheric dispersion modeling system}}
*{{pl|AERMOD air pollution dispersion model}}
*{{pl|Air}}
*{{pl|Air pollutant concentrations}}
*{{pl|Air pollution emissions}}
*{{pl|Air pollution dispersion modeling}}
*{{pl|Air pollution dispersion terminology}}
*{{pl|Air Quality Index}}
*{{pl|Air Quality Modeling Group}}
*{{pl|Air Resources Laboratory}}
*{{pl|AP 42 Compilation of Air Pollutant Emission Factors}}
*{{pl|Atmospheric lapse rate}}
*{{pl|Atmospheric pressure}}
*{{pl|Built environment}}
*{{pl|California Air Resources Board}}
*{{pl|California Environmental Protection Agency}}
*{{pl|Clean Air Act (U.S.)}}
*{{pl|CALPUFF air pollution dispersion model}}
*{{pl|Earth's atmosphere}}
*{{pl|European Environment Agency}}
*{{pl|Finnish Meteorological Institute}}
*{{pl|Meteorology}}
*{{pl|Met Office}}
*{{pl|National Ambient Air Quality Standards}}
*{{pl|National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center}}
*{{pl|National Center for Atmospheric Research}}
*{{pl|National Environmental Research Institute of Denmark}}
*{{pl|Natural environment}}
*{{pl|Netherlands National Institute for Public Health and the Environment}}
*{{pl|Norwegian Institute for Air Research}}
*{{pl|Pollutant}}
*{{pl|Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute}}
*{{pl|Smog}}
*{{pl|South Coast Air Quality Management District}}
*{{pl|Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute}}
*{{pl|UK Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling Liaison Committee}}
*{{pl|UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs}}
*{{pl|UK Environment Agency}}
*{{pl|U.S. Environmental Protection Agency}}
{{col-end}}
 
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{{pl|Merox|Example article2}} [[Image:Approval button.png|13px]] (Nominated for reapproval)
 
== Articles to which I have contributed or edited significantly ==
 
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*'''Articles to which I have contributed or edited significantly (34)'''
*{{pl|Asphalt (paving)}}
*{{pl|Carbon capture and storage}}
*{{pl|Chemical elements}}
*{{pl|Coal}}
*{{pl|Coal mining}}
*{{pl|Combined gas law}}
*{{pl|Combustion}}
*{{pl|Density (chemistry)}}
*{{pl|Energy (science)}}
*{{pl|Environmental chemistry}}
*{{pl|Fluid dynamics}}
*{{pl|Friction (science)}}
*{{pl|Gas}}
*{{pl|Gold}}
*{{pl|Haber process}}
*{{pl|Hydrocarbons}}
*{{pl|Ideal gas law}}
{{col-break}}
*'''Articles to which I have contributed or edited significantly (cont'd)
*{{pl|Laws of thermodynamics}}
*{{pl|Logarithm}}
*{{pl|National Institute of Standards and Technology}}
*{{pl|National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration}}
*{{pl|Nitrogen cycle}}
*{{pl|Outer space}}
*{{pl|Perpetual motion machine}}
*{{pl|pH}}
*{{pl|Pump}}
*{{pl|Reactionless propulsion}}
*{{pl|Renewable energy}}
*{{pl|Rocket engine}}
*{{pl|Square kilometre}}
*{{pl|Sulfur}}
*{{pl|Thermodynamics}}
*{{pl|Wind}}
*{{pl|Water}}
{{col-end}} 
 
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Milton Beychok died in February 2015

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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 part of my career (about 30 years) working in and 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.

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

My functional roles in Citizendium

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.

Biography

Academic credentials:

  • B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1946.

Work and other experience:

  • 1943 - 1946: Between my junior and senior years at Texas A&M, served in the 100th Infantry Division in France and Germany. Held ranks of 2nd Lieutenant and 1st Lieutenant. Discharged as a Captain after war ended.
  • 1946 - 1948: Worked in chemical engineering research at the Shell Oil Refinery in the Houston, Texas area.
  • 1949 - 1953: Worked as chief chemist and as chemical engineer at the Rothschild Oil Refinery in the Los Angeles, California area.
  • 1954 - 1975: Worked as chemical process design engineer for Fluor Engineers and Constructors in Los Angeles, California and in London, England.
  • 1976 - 1999: Worked in my own practice as an independent consulting engineer.

Distinctinctions, honors and awards:

  • 1970, "Technical Achievement Award", Southern California section, American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE)
  • 1973 -1975, Served an appointment on the California Regional Water Quality Control Board
  • 1974 - 1975, Served on AIChE Speakers Bureau Tour
  • 1976, Keynote speaker, "Open Forum on Management of Petroleum Refinery Wastewaters", jointly sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, American Petroleum Institute and the National Petroleum Refiners Association, at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma
  • 1976, "Environmental Division Award", the national American Institute of Chemical Engineers
  • 1978-1980, Chairman, Petroleum Committee, Air Pollution Control Association, now the Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA)
  • 1978 - 1980, Director of Environmental Division, national American Institute of Chemical Engineers
  • Elected as a Fellow of the national American Institute of Chemical Engineers (Don't remember the date)
  • Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers (Don't remember the date)

Publications:

  • Books:
    • Aqueous Wastes from Petroleum and Petrochemical Plant, John Wiley and Sons, 1967
    • Fundamentals of Stack Gas Dispersion, self-published, 1979 (Ist Edition), 2005 (4th Edition)
  • Major consulting reports:
    • Process and environmental technology for producing SNG and liquid fuels EPA/2-75-011, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, May 1975
    • Comparative economics of advanced regenerable flue gas desulfurization processes, EPRI CS-1381, Electric Power Research Institute, March 1980
  • Articles in peer-reviewed journal, conferences and other technical publications (partial list)
    • "Algebraic solution of McCabe-Thiele diagram", Chemical Engineering Progress, May 1951
    • "Naphthenates from spent caustic", Petroleum Processing, May 1952
    • "Cooling tower control variables", Petroleum Processing, October 1952
    • "First postwar butadiene plant", Petroleum Refiner, June 1957
    • "Design of sour water strippers", Seventh World Petroleum Congress, Mexico, April 1967
    • "Performance of surface-aerated basins", WATER-1970, Chemical Engineering Progress Symposium Series 107, Volume 67, 1971
    • "Wastewater treatment processes", Instituto de Ingenieros Quimicos, Puerto Rico, July 1971
    • "Wastewater treatment", Hydrocarbon Processing, December 1971
    • "NOx emissions from fuel combustion", Oil and Gas Journal, February 26, 1973
    • "Clean energy via coal gasification", 18th Annual New Mexico Water Conference, Las Cruces, New Mexico April 1973
    • "Coal gasification and the Phenolsolvan process", American Chemical Society 168th National Meeting, Atlantic City, September 1974
    • "Coping with SO2", Chemical Engineering, October 21, 1974
    • "Environmental factors in producing supplemental fuels", Hydrocarbon Processing, October 1975
    • "Sulfur emissions control for a coal gasification plant", EPA Conference on Environmental Aspects of Solid Fuel Conversion, Florida, December 1975
    • "Options for SO2 reduction", U.S. EPA Symposium on Flue Gas Desulfurization, Florida, November 1977 (co-authored with A.V. Slack)
    • "A data base of dioxin and furan emissions from municipal refuse incinerators", Atmospheric Environment, January 1987
    • "Dioxin, furan, particulate and trace metal emissions from municipal refuse incinerators", American Flame Research Committee International Symposium on Incineration of Hazardous, Municipal and Other Wastes, Palm Springs, California, November 1987
    • "Error propagation in stack gas dispersion models", The National Environmental Journal, January and February, 1996
    • "Calculating flow rates for accidental gas releases", Environmental Technology, January and February, 1997

Citizendium articles:

  • Articles which I created and for which I was the major contributor:
    • A total of 183 articles of which 28 achieved Approved status. See Articles for complete, detailed list.
  • Articles to which I significantly contributed or edited:
    • A total of 35 various engineering, chemistry, physics and other technical articles of which 3 achieved Approved status. See Articles for complete, detailed list.