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The OSU library maintains an unrestricted collection of FRI progress reports, plant tests, topical reports, consultants’ reports and annual reports that were issued during the period 1954 – 1970. FRI has also produced a number of unrestricted instructional films and videos, which are listed on its
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FRI has tested various types of fractionation trays and packings (both generic and proprietary designs), with the objective of developing correlations for predicting tray efficiencies and pressure drops. This information is needed to design fractionators, absorbers and strippers. It has also tested
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Initially, fifteen companies signed agreements with FRI and grew to 37 by the first stockholder meeting in
November 1952. Membership continued to grow to a peak of 94 companies in 1995. Membership declined thereafter to 67 in 2008, primarily due to mergers. At first, nearly all members were U. S.
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devices such as trays, packings and other column internals. Its objective is to facilitate the design of more economical distillation, absorption and stripping systems. Before the formation of FRI, such research was performed on a small scale by universities or private companies. The latter
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Each member company is entitled to put one representative on the board of directors. The Board then elects an executive committee that directs the detailed business through the
President and the Secretary of the company. The president is elected by the board of directors.
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FRI is a non-profit organization formed by petroleum, chemical and engineering companies to perform plant-scale research in distillation. It began in 1952, spearheaded by Dr. Karl
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performance of other column internals such as liquid distributors. It periodically reports its findings to the member companies.
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