Lobo, Walter E., Papers Walter E. Lobo Papers, 1929-1955 Ms.1985.014

Walter E. Lobo Papers, 1929-1955 Ms.1985.014


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Business Number: 540-231-6308
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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.

Administrative Information

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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'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).

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/ ).

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • Lobo, Walter E. (Walter Eder), 1905-1995

Container List

Papers
1939-1966, n.d.
  • box-folder 2 folder: 1
    Enriched Air by S. Ya. Gersh
    1939
  • box-folder 2 folder: 2
    Guide to Refinery Operating Costs
    1966
  • box-folder 2 folder: 3
    Large Scale Production of Oxygen
    1947
  • box-folder 3 folder: 1
    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
Microfilm
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 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
    1971
  • box 1
    Proceedings of Gas - Dottie Gould
  • box 1
    Est. 9823/1/1-13
    1945-1948
  • box 1
    Est. 1029/2/13-31
  • box 1
    Job 5740/3/31-44
    1945-1949
  • box 1
    Job 6500/4/44-52
    1946-1951
  • box 1
    Job 6720/5/53-60
    1947-1949
  • box 1
    Job 8855/6/61-69
    1949
  • box 1
    Est. 1024/7/69-75
    1947-1948
  • box 1
    Est. 1024-1/8/76-97
    1947-1948
  • box 1
    Est. 9961/9/98-121
    1946-1948
  • box 1
    Job 7141/10/121-135
    1948-1949
  • box 1
    Job 7141/11/135-139
    1948-1949
  • box 1
    Job 7141/12/140-165
    1946-1948
  • box 1
    Job 7141/13/157a-189a
    1948
  • box 1
    Job 7141/14/159a-162a
    1948-1949
  • box 1
    Est. 9485/15/163a-173
    1940-1941
  • box 1
    Est. 9585-4/16/173-187
    1940-1941
  • box 1
    Est. 9564/17/187-217
    1941
  • box 1
    A-2-901/18/217-254
    1926-1949
  • box 1
    A-4-8/19/255-264
    1935-1945
  • box 1
    A-4-108/20/264-288
    1943-1947
  • box 1
    A-4-131/21/289-326
    1931-1949
  • box 1
    A-7-905/22/326-339
    1930-1951
  • box 1
    A-8-103/23/339-350
    1922-1953
  • box 1
    A-10-9/24/350-368
    1940-1951
  • box 1
    A-10-10/25/365-404
    1938-1953
  • box 1
    B-2-4/26/405-411
    1930-1953
  • box 1
    B-2-8/27/411-424
    1936-1952
  • box 1
    B-6-9/28/424-436
    1932-1953
  • box 1
    B-6-17/29/436-446
    1937-1947
  • box 1
    B-6-21/30/446-462
    1941-1953
  • box 1
    B-6-36/31/463-484
    1932-1940
  • box 1
    C-1-3/32/484-509
    1929-1936
  • box 1
    D-1-11/33/510-534
    1930-1950
  • box 1
    D-4-6/34/535-526
    1936-1953
  • box 1
    D-5-1/35/557-597
    1929-1947
  • box 1
    E-6-1/36/598-629
    1929-1938
  • box 1
    E-7-108/37/530-565
    1932-1945
  • box 1
    E-8-104/38/666-692
    1937-1945
  • box 1
    E-9-6/39/693-697
    1939-1941
  • box 1
    E-9-7/40/698-705
    1933-1948
  • box 1
    E-9-11/41/706-731
    1937-1948
  • box 1
    E-11-10/42/731-746
    1938-1944
  • box 1
    E-12-10/43/718-757
    1938-1948
  • box 1
    E-12-13/44/758-765
    1939-1945
  • box 1
    E-12-21/45/766-777
    1945-1948
  • box 1
    E-12-31/46/777-789
    1938-1952
  • box 1
    E-12-114/47/789-804
    1939-1952
  • box 1
    E-12-213/48/804-819
    1939-1953
  • box 1
    E-12-403/49/819-832
    1941-1946
  • box 1
    E-12-908/50/832-841
    1949-1951
  • box 1
    E-12-910/51/841-847
    1949-1953
  • box 1
    E-13-1/52/848-861
    1937-1947
  • box 1
    E-15-1/53/861-868
    1944-1946
  • box 1
    E-15-2/54/868-878
    1943-1948
  • box 1
    E-15-3/55/789-888
    1937-1950
  • box 1
    E-15-8/56/889-895
    1929-1950
  • box 1
    Job 900/57/896-902
  • box 1
    Job 900/58/903-910
    1948
  • box 1
    Job 900/59/911-917
    1945-1953
  • box 1
    Job 900/60/918-943
    1932-1952
  • box 1
    F-2-3/61/944-963
    1930-1953
  • box 1
    G-1-2/62/964-984
    1930-1953
  • box 1
    G-2-8/63/985-1010
    1939-1950
  • box 1
    G-5-4/64/1010-1034
    1929-1953
  • box 1
    G-10-1/65/1035-1055
    1929-1951
  • box 1
    H-2-2/66/1056-1084
    1940-1952
  • box 1
    K-2-4/67/1085-1105
    1937-1951
  • box 1
    K-5-3/68/1106-1124
    1934-1952
  • box 1
    L-3-3/69/1125-1142
    1929-1953
  • box 1
    L-5-1/70/1143-1154
    1935-1945
  • box 1
    L-5-10/71/1155-1170
    1928-1948
  • box 1
    N-2-1/72/1170-1199
    1929-1953
  • box 1
    T-1-1/73/1199-1213
    1937-1953
  • box 1
    T-2-10/74/1214-1221
    1934-1950
  • box 1
    U-5-2/75/1222-1239
    1940-1953
  • box 1
    V-1-1/76/1239-1272
    1935-1952
  • box 1
    W-1-12/77/1273-1287
    1929-1933
  • box 1
    X-1-12/78/1289-1307
    1929-1939
  • box 1
    X-1-32/79/1308-1323
    1926-1939
  • box 1
    X-1-46/80/1323-1345
    1927-1948
  • box 1
    X-2-18/81/1346-1353
    1930-1949
  • box 1
    X-3-2/82/1354-1360
    1930-1937
  • box 1
    X-3-10/83/1369-1371
    1938-1939
  • box 1
    X-3-16/84A/1373-1385
    1945
  • box 1
    Y-1-1/84B/1386-1391
  • box 1
    Y-101/84C/1392
  • box 1
    Y-101/84/1450-1457
    1931-1945
  • box 1
    Y-103/85/1458-1466
    1931-1945
  • box 1
    Y-111/86/1466-1475
    1933-1945
  • box 1
    Y-402/87/1476-1485
  • box 1
    Y-704/88/1485-1503
  • box 1
    Y-903/89/1504-1517
    1945-1952
  • box 1
    Y-916/90/1517-1523
    1952