Stanislaw Pilat
Stanisław Pilat (born January 25, 1881 in Lemberg ; † July 3 or July 4, 1941 near Lemberg) was a Polish chemist ( petrochemicals ).
Life
Pilat was the son of the professor of administrative law in Lviv and rector of the University of Tadeusz Pilat . Pilat studied chemistry at the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg and the universities of Würzburg and Leipzig. In 1904 he received his doctorate in Leipzig. After that he went into the oil industry first in Boryslaw and in the refinery in Pardubice . In 1908/09 he was involved in the construction of an oil refinery in Ploieşti for the German company Vega. In 1909 he became director of the mineral oil factory in Drohobych . In addition, he worked as a technical consultant, for example in 1912 for a refinery in Mexico and developed new types of distillation equipment for refineries. In 1923 he became director of the Dabrowa oil company and in 1924 professor for petroleum technology at the Lemberg Polytechnic, but also headed the state-owned mineral oil company Polmin until 1926. He worked for the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Petroleum Engineering in Moscow. He continued his scientific work during the Soviet occupation of Lviv.
Stanisław Pilat was the victim of the Lviv professors' murders .
plant
Pilat analyzed the composition of crude oil, developed a method of producing soot from natural gas, which was also technically implemented in Romania, developed the Pilat process (removal of paraffin wax from oil by mixing with a second liquid, US patent from 1938) and looked for uses for refinery waste in the form of sulfonic acids (as cleaning agents and preservatives). He studied the properties of lubricants depending on the chemical structure and methods of increasing the octane number of gasoline and the production of synthetic gasoline from catalytic dehydrogenation of methane to olefins and subsequent polymerization.
honors and awards
In 1936 he received the Commander's Cross of the Order Polonia Restituta .
literature
- Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 345
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pilat, Stanislaw |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lviv |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 3, 1941 or July 4, 1941 |
| Place of death | near Lemberg |