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Jacobs–Dorr An alternative name for the *Dorr-Oliver process for making phosphoric acid, adopted
after the technology was acquired by the Jacobs Company in 1974. Twenty-seven plants were operating
in 1989.
Gard, D.R., in Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing and Design, McKetta, J.J. and Cunningham, W.A., Eds., Marcel
Dekker, New York, 1990, 35, 455.
James An early process for making mixed oxygenated organic compounds by the catalytic oxidation of petro-
leum fractions. The products were aldehydes, alcohols, and carboxylic acids. Developed by J.H. James at the
Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, PA.
James, J.H., Chem. Metall. Eng ...