Friedrich Engelhardt
Friedrich Karl Engelhardt (born May 6, 1913 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ; † March 30, 1994 in Hamburg ) was a German chemist who gave the Kölbel-Engelhardt synthesis its name.
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After graduating from the municipal high school in Mülheim an der Ruhr and a three-year internship at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Coal Research, today's Max Planck Institute for Coal Research , Friedrich Engelhardt began studying chemistry in Cologne in 1936, which he took with him in Leipzig in 1943 graduated with a diploma. He then took up a position in the research department of Rheinpreußen AG in Homberg, where he worked on the synthesis of gasoline as an employee of Herbert Kölbel . Together with Kölbel, whom he knew from his time at the Mülheim Coal Research Institute, he developed the Kölbel-Engelhardt synthesis in 1951, a further development of the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis . This process, which uses iron instead of cobalt as a catalyst and water vapor instead of hydrogen, reduced the production costs of synthetic gasoline and represented a decisive advance in the development of synthetic petroleum products.
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- Mülheim morning post of October 2, 1951
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| SURNAME | Engelhardt, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Engelhardt, Friedrich Karl (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist and co-editor of the Kölbel-Engelhardt synthesis |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mülheim an der Ruhr |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 1994 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |