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1、(完整版)化学工程与工艺专业英语课文翻译 (2)Unit 1 Chemical Industry化学工业Before reading the text below, try to answer following question:1. When did the modern chemical industry start?2. Can you give a definition for the chemical industry?3. What are the contribution which the chemical industry has made to meet and sati
2、sfy our needs?4. Is the chemical industry capital or laborintensive? Why?1.Origins of the Chemical Industry Although the use of chemicals dates back to the ancient civilizations, the evolution of what we know as the modern chemical industry started much more recently。 It may be considered to have be
3、gun during the Industrial Revolution, about 1800, and developed to provide chemicals roe use by other industries. Examples are alkali for soapmaking, bleaching powder for cotton, and silica and sodium carbonate for glassmaking。 It will be noted that these are all inorganic chemicals。 The organic che
4、micals industry started in the 1860s with the exploitation of William Henry Perkins discovery if the first synthetic dyestuffmauve。 At the start of the twentieth century the emphasis on research on the applied aspects of chemistry in Germany had paid off handsomely, and by 1914 had resulted in the G
5、erman chemical industry having 75 of the world market in chemicals。 This was based on the discovery of new dyestuffs plus the development of both the contact process for sulphuric acid and the Haber process for ammonia. The later required a major technological breakthrough that of being able to carr
6、y out chemical reactions under conditions of very high pressure for the first time。 The experience gained with this was to stand Germany in good stead, particularly with the rapidly increased demand for nitrogen-based compounds (ammonium salts for fertilizers and nitric acid for explosives manufactu
7、re) with the outbreak of world warin 1914. This initiated profound changes which continued during the interwar years (19181939)。1 化学工业的起源尽管化学品的使用可以追溯到古代文明时代,我们所谓的现代化学工业的发展却是非常近代(才开始的)。可以认为它起源于工业革命其间,大约在1800年,并发展成为为其它工业部门提供化学原料的产业。比如制肥皂所用的碱,棉布生产所用的漂白粉,玻璃制造业所用的硅及Na2CO3。 我们会注意到所有这些都是无机物。有机化学工业的开始是在十九世纪
8、六十年代以William Henry Perkin 发现第一种合成染料苯胺紫并加以开发利用为标志的。20世纪初,德国花费大量资金用于实用化学方面的重点研究,到1914年,德国的化学工业在世界化学产品市场上占有75%的份额。这要归因于新染料的发现以及硫酸的接触法生产和氨的哈伯生产工艺的发展。而后者需要较大的技术突破使得化学反应第一次可以在非常高的压力条件下进行。这方面所取得的成绩对德国很有帮助.特别是由于1914年第一次世界大仗的爆发,对以氮为基础的化合物的需求飞速增长。这种深刻的改变一直持续到战后(1918-1939)。date bake to/from: 回溯到dated: 过时的,陈旧的s
9、tand sb. in good stead: 对。.很有帮助Since 1940 the chemical industry has grown at a remarkable rate, although this has slowed significantly in recent years。 The lions share of this growth has been in the organic chemicals sector due to the development and growth of the petrochemicals area since 1950s。 Th
10、e explosives growth in petrochemicals in the 1960s and 1970s was largely due to the enormous increase in demand for synthetic polymers such as polyethylene, polypropylene, nylon, polyesters and epoxy resins.1940年以来,化学工业一直以引人注目的速度飞速发展。尽管这种发展的速度近年来已大大减慢。化学工业的发展由于1950年以来石油化学领域的研究和开发大部分在有机化学方面取得.石油化工在60
11、年代和70年代的迅猛发展主要是由于人们对于合成高聚物如聚乙烯、聚丙烯、尼龙、聚脂和环氧树脂的需求巨大增加。The chemical industry today is a very diverse sector of manufacturing industry, within which it plays a central role. It makes thousands of different chemicals which the general public only usually encounter as end or consumer products. These prod
12、ucts are purchased because they have the required properties which make them suitable for some particular application, e。g。 a non-stick coating for pans or a weedkiller. Thus chemicals are ultimately sold for the effects that they produce。 今天的化学工业已经是制造业中有着许多分支的部门,并且在制造业中起着核心的作用。它生产了数千种不同的化学产品,而人们通常只
13、接触到终端产品或消费品。这些产品被购买是因为他们具有某些性质适合(人们)的一些特别的用途,例如,用于盆的不粘涂层或一种杀虫剂。这些化学产品归根到底是由于它们能产生的作用而被购买的.2。 Definition of the Chemical IndustryAt the turn of the century there would have been little difficulty in defining what constituted the chemical industry since only a very limited range of products was manufa
14、ctured and these were clearly chemicals, e。g。, alkali, sulphuric acid。 At present, however, many intermediates to products produced, from raw materials like crude oil through (in some cases) many intermediates to products which may be used directly as consumer goods, or readily converted into them.
15、The difficulty cones in deciding at which point in this sequence the particular operation ceases to be part of the chemical industrys sphere of activities。 To consider a specific example to illustrate this dilemma, emulsion paints may contain poly (vinyl chloride) / poly (vinyl acetate)。 Clearly, sy
16、nthesis of vinyl chloride (or acetate) and its polymerization are chemical activities。 However, if formulation and mixing of the paint, including the polymer, is carried out by a branch of the multinational chemical company which manufactured the ingredients, is this still part of the chemical indus
17、try of does it mow belong in the decorating industry?2 化学工业的定义在本世纪初,要定义什么是化学工业是不太困难的,因为那时所生产的化学品是很有限的,而且是非常清楚的化学品,例如,烧碱,硫酸。然而现在有数千种化学产品被生产,从一些原料物质像用于制备许多的半成品的石油,到可以直接作为消费品或很容易转化为消费品的商品。困难在于如何决定在一些特殊的生产过程中哪一个环节不再属于化学工业的活动范畴。举一个特殊的例子来描述一下这种困境。乳剂漆含有聚氯乙烯/聚醋酸乙烯。显然,氯乙烯(或醋酸乙烯)的合成以及聚合是化学活动.然而,如果这种漆,包括高聚物,它的
18、配制和混合是由一家制造配料的跨国化学公司完成的话,那它仍然是属于化学工业呢还是应当归属于装饰工业中去呢?It is therefore apparent that, because of its diversity of operations and close links in many areas with other industries, there is no simple definition of the chemical industry. Instead each official body which collects and publishes statistics on
19、 manufacturing industry will have its definition as to which operations are classified as the chemical industry。 It is important to bear this in mind when comparing statistical information which is derived from several sources。 因此,很明显,由于化学工业经营的种类很多并在很多领域与其它工业有密切的联系,所以不能对它下一个简单的定义.相反的每一个收集和出版制造工业统计数据
20、的官方机构都会对如何届定哪一类操作为化学工业有自己的定义.当比较来自不同途径的统计资料时,记住这点是很重要的.3。 The Need for Chemical IndustryThe chemical industry is concerned with converting raw materials, such as crude oil, firstly into chemical intermediates and then into a tremendous variety of other chemicals。 These are then used to produce consu
21、mer products, which make our lives more comfortable or, in some cases such as pharmaceutical produces, help to maintain our well-being or even life itself。 At each stage of these operations value is added to the produce and provided this added exceeds the raw material plus processing costs then a pr
22、ofit will be made on the operation. It is the aim of chemical industry to achieve this.3 对化学工业的需要化学工业涉及到原材料的转化,如石油 首先转化为化学中间体,然后转化为数量众多的其它化学产品.这些产品再被用来生产消费品,这些消费品可以使我们的生活更为舒适或者作药物维持人类的健康或生命。在生产过程的每一个阶段,都有价值加到产品上面,只要这些附加的价值超过原材料和加工成本之和,这个加工就产生了利润.而这正是化学工业要达到的目的。It may seem strange in textbook this on
23、e to pose the question “do we need a chemical industry?” However trying to answer this question will provide() an indication of the range of the chemical industrys activities, () its influence on our lives in everyday terms, and () how great is societys need for a chemical industry. Our approach in
24、answering the question will be to consider the industrys contribution to meeting and satisfying our major needs。 What are these? Clearly food (and drink) and health are paramount. Other which we shall consider in their turn are clothing and (briefly) shelter, leisure and transport。在这样的一本教科书中提出:“我们需要
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