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The Wulff process is a chemical process to make acetylene and ethylene by cracking a hydrocarbon gas (for example, butane) with high-temperature steam in a regenerative furnace. The process is named after its inventor, Robert G. Wulff (1898-1984), who took out a patent on the process in 1931. Born in Torreon, Mexico where he lived until the age of 12, Robert Wulff studied physics and chemistry at the University of Texas, and later did graduate work in chemical engineering.

After leaving Wulff Process Co. in 1930s he did research on color motion picture processes, worked in California for Shell Oil, served in the Army Air Corps during WW II and worked for Tennessee Eastman and for Champion Paper. Robert G. Wulff suffered from health problems most of his life that he attributed to chemical fumes he breathed early in his career. .

In 1965, Union Carbide bought ail rights to the Wulff process for converting hydrocarbons to acetylene and ethylene from its owner, Wulff Process Co., Los Angeles, Calif..