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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.

Biographical Note

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.

Scope and Content

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's 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).

Please note: the index to the microfilm has been digitized and is available with full text searching.

Arrangement

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.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Chemical engineering
• Science and Technology

Rights Statement for Archival Description

The guide to the Owen Wister Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).