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Repository
Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech
Identification
Ms.1985.014
Title
Walter E. Lobo Papers 1929-1955
Quantity
2.2 Cubic Feet, 3 boxes
Creator
Lobo, Walter E. (Walter Eder), 1905-1995
Language
The materials in the collection are in English.
Abstract
Walter E. Lobo (1905-1995) was a chemical engineer, mostly for M. W. Kellogg Company catering to petroleum and chemical industries
which performed contract research and development. The collection mainly consists of Lobo's microfilmed files (99 reels) dealing
with chemical-, petroleum-, and energy-related topics (including laboratory and field reports). In addition, there are several
documents, including a typescripts of reports and indexes of the microfilm.
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Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Existence and Location of Copies
The paper index to the microfilm, which contains additional information about the contents of individual reels has been digitized
and is available online as a text-searchable PDF . The container list below contains microfilm reel titles, job numbers, reel numbers, and sheet numbers, depending on how
it was labeled. The PDF includes more detatiled titles and descriptions.
Source of Acquisition
The Walter E. Lobo Papers were donated to Special Collections in 1985.
Processing Information
Some inital processing and description of the collection was completed in 1985. Additional description was completed in November
2018.
Walter E. Lobo was born in 1905 in New York. The bulk of his career was spend as a senior chemical engineer for M. W. Kellogg
Company in their Jersey City, New Jersey, branch. The company was an architect-engineering company catering to petroleum and
chemical industries which performed contract research and development for Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, Standard of Indiana,
Texaco, Cities Service, and others. Lobo died in 1995 in Fairfield, Connecticut.
The Walter E. Lobo Papers mainly consist of Lobo's microfilmed files (99 reels) dealing with natural gas and oil; thermodynamics;
thermal and catalytic cracking; catalytic polymerization; hydrocracking; hydrocarbon synthesis; heat transfer; furnaces; distillation;
and other petroleum and energy-related topics (including laboratory reports from Jersey City and field reports on equipment
startup). In addition, there are several folders of textual documents, including a typescript catalog and index of the microfilm,
a typescript translation of S.Y. Gersch'sĀ Enriched Air (originally published in Moscow in 1939), several typescript reports
on German petroleum production (1945-1947), and indexes to the Technical Advisory Committee of the Petroleum Industry War
Council Technical Oil Mission microfilm reels (1947).
This collection is organized into two series: papers and microfilm. Boxes 2 and 3 contain the indexes and typescripts. Box
1 contains the collection of microfilm.
The German Chemical Industry: A Bibliography of the Chemical Metallurgical and Process Industries
box-folder 3 folder: 2
Index to Microfilmed Files
Existence and Location of Copies
The paper index to the microfilm, which contains additional information about the contents of individual reels, also exists
as as text-searchable PDF . The content list below contains of microfilm reel titles, job numbers, reel numbers, and sheet numbers, depending on how
it was labeled. The PDF includes more detatiled titles and descriptions.
box-folder 3 folder: 3
List of Process Management's Translations of I. G. Reports
The paper index to the microfilm, which contains additional information about the contents of individual reels, also exists
as as text-searchable PDF . The content list below contains of microfilm reel titles, job numbers, reel numbers, and sheet numbers, depending on how
it was labeled. The PDF includes more detatiled titles and descriptions.
box 1
Glass Bath Heater Operations
box 1
Sarofim
box 1
Radiation Heat Temps [?] in Cylindrical formation [?]
box 1
Silber Thesis
box 1
Gautreaux Thesis
box 1
Radiactive Transport on a cylindrical test furnace