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To: Scotsman who wrote (21542)	11/18/1998 3:42:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

<<After the breakup they became Standard of Indiana, introduced it, increased gas production by 7 times because of it,and actually helped win WW11 because they could produce high octane gas. >> You mean, for high-compression engines like those in the military airplanes of the time?

To: Scotsman who wrote (21542)	11/19/1998 12:36:00 AM
From: Eugene Goodman	Respond to of 24154

One small comment. Thermal Cracking processes were used to produce gasoline from heavy oils and to increase the octane of gasoline in the '20s and '30s. The Houdry Process was the first catalytic process to be used to produce high octane gasoline from Atm. heavy and vacuum gas oils first started being used around '39 or '40. At the start of the second World War the government allowed the formation of JUIC in which Standard Oil of New Jersey [ the J ] UOP, a R & D company, SO Indiana and Kellog, an engineering company to pool all of their patents and conduct joint research. This resulted in the development of Fluid Catalytic Cracking process that produced AvGas toward the end of the war. Exxon, who have never been accused of modesty, in their PR on the process, claim most of the credit for the process, although they do say that MIT helped with some of the basic concepts. I,ve spoken to guys from Amoco and Kellog who tell a different story about the relative contributions within JUIC and others who worked on the process. The big boys write the history books. Gene