User:Mbeychok





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= Why am I leaving Wikipedia? =

'''Take a good look at this page. I believe it documents that fact that I have been a long time contributor of good articles related to my many years of engineering experience.'''

'''So why have I decided to leave Wikipedia? Because I have grown weary of the revisions made by inexperienced people who think they know a subject when they really don't know it. I am also weary of people who make revisions because they "know better than anyone else".'''

Goodbye to all the friends I did make here in the past two and a half years or so.

mbeychok (talk) 06:24, 23 July 2008 (UTC)


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 * style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | !! Happy Retirement mbeychok !! - We're really sorry to see you leave Wikipedia, but are also really glad you joined in the first place. Thanks for all the contributions you’ve made to making Wikipedia the best factual based resource on the internet.  For example, I will never be able to think of distillation as a small-scale process ever again!! Hopefully you will only remember the good times! In recognition of your contributions, please accept the Wikipedia Gold Watch of Retirement.  We hope to see you back here soon either as a visitor or back with the odd edit or two. Quantockgoblin (talk) 16:57, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
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About Me
I am Milton Beychok, a retired chemical engineer living in Newport Beach, California, USA. During my career spanning 50 years, I spent my first 30 years in designing petroleum refineries, petrochemical plants, natural gas treating plants and other industrial facilities. For the next 20 years, I was an individual consulting engineer in the environmental field ... impact studies, permitting, wastewater and air pollution emission studies. I am a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

I have published two engineering books and over 25 engineering articles in peer-reviewed journals as well as non-reviewed engineering trade magazines.

My website is at www.air-dispersion.com. I have my e-mail enabled. If you use it, make sure that "Wikipedia" is in the subject line. Otherwise, it may get deleted as spam. I first registered as a Wikipedia user in early January, 2006.

New articles I created (47)

 * Accidental Release Source Terms
 * ADMS 3
 * AERMOD
 * Air pollution dispersion terminology
 * Air Quality Modeling Group
 * Ammonia production
 * AP 42 Compilation of Air Pollutant Emission Factors
 * API oil-water separator
 * Aqueous Wastes from Petroleum and Petrochemical Plants
 * Atmospheric dispersion modeling
 * Atmospheric Studies Group
 * AUSTAL2000
 * Bibliography of atmospheric dispersion modeling
 * BTX (chemistry)
 * Centrifugal fan
 * Czech Hydrometeorological Institute
 * Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand
 * Compilation of atmospheric dispersion models
 * Confederation of European Environmental Engineering Societies
 * DISPERSION21
 * Distillation Design
 * Entrainment (engineering)
 * Expansion turbine or Turboexpander
 * Flue gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion
 * Flue gas stacks
 * Fluid catalytic cracking
 * Fundamentals Of Stack Gas Dispersion
 * Hydrocarbon dew point
 * MERCURE
 * National Environmental Research Institute of Denmark
 * National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center (NARAC)
 * NAME (dispersion model)
 * Natural gas processing
 * Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook
 * Relative volatility
 * Rocket engine nozzles
 * Souders-Brown equation
 * Surface condenser
 * TA Luft
 * Transport Phenomena
 * UK Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling Liason Committee
 * UK Dispersion Modelling Bureau
 * Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering
 * Units conversion by factor-label
 * Useful conversions and formulas for air dispersion modeling
 * Vapor-compression refrigeration
 * Vapor-liquid separator
 * Wastewater quality indicators

Articles I essentially re-wrote completely and expanded (30)

 * Acid gas and Sour gas
 * Amine gas treating
 * Boiling point
 * Catalytic reforming
 * Choked flow
 * Continuous distillation (in collaboration with User:Beetstra)
 * Control valves
 * Deaerator
 * Delayed coker and Coker unit
 * Dissolved air flotation
 * Fenske equation
 * Finnish Meteorological Institute
 * Flash evaporation
 * Flue gas
 * Fractionating column
 * Gas stoichiometry
 * Hydrodesulfurization
 * Injector or Ejector
 * KNMI (institute)
 * Merox
 * Natural gas condensate
 * Orifice plate
 * Partial pressure
 * Reboiler
 * Relief valve
 * Seasonal energy efficiency ratio
 * South Coast Air Quality Management District
 * Standard conditions for temperature and pressure
 * Theoretical plate

Articles I contributed to extensively (60)

 * Air preheater (extensive rewrite and two new images)
 * Air Quality Index (a significant amount of revision and expansion)
 * Air Resources Laboratory (a major expansion)
 * American Institute of Chemical Engineers (a major expansion)
 * Ammonia (complete rewrite of synthesis and production section)
 * Batch distillation (major re-wording, copy editing and complete revision of images)
 * California Air Resources Board (major expansion and copy editing)
 * CALPUFF and PUFF-PLUME (significant expansion)
 * Chimneys (complete revision of one section)
 * Combustion (major revision and expansion)
 * Cooling tower (complete revision, re-organization and expansion)
 * DEFRA and Royal Meteorological Society (added new sections to each of these)
 * Distillation and Fractional distillation (significant revisions and expansions)
 * Downstream (oil industry) and Upstream (oil industry) (extensive expansion and re-organization)
 * Emission (completely reformatted and extensive expansion)
 * Environmental engineering (extensive re-write and expansion and merged "Environmental engineer" into this article}
 * European Environment Agency (a major expansion)
 * Feedwater heater (significant copy editing, adding references and new image)
 * Flue gas desulfurization (almost complete revision)
 * Fossil fuel power plant (a significant revision and some expansion)
 * Gas compressor (extensive editing and re-formatting)
 * Gas flare (a significant amount of revision and expansion)
 * Heating value (Extensive re-formatting, and some removal of material that was not needed and/or not explained)
 * Help:Footnotes (major new new section)
 * Henry's law (significant revision)
 * HVAC (major revisions and some expansion)
 * Hydrogenation (a significant expansion and some revisions)
 * Incineration (a major revision and expansion)
 * Industrial water treatment (a significant revision and expansion)
 * Legionella (a significant re-organization and re-write)
 * Legionellosis (a complete re-write and re-organization)
 * McCabe-Thiele method (major expansion and addition of sections)
 * Met Office (a significant expansion)
 * Natural resource (extensive formatting, Wikifying and adding additional section headers, adding references and external/internal links)
 * Netherlands National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (major expansion and re-formatting)
 * Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU) (major re-write and expansion)
 * Piping (significant expansion)
 * Process design (major rewrite/revision and re-formatting)
 * Process Flow diagram (major rewrite/revision and re-formatting)
 * Process Safety Management (major revision and expansion of this science stub)
 * Reflux (a complete re-arrangement and expansion)
 * Refrigeration (significant revision, expansion and Wikifying)
 * Refinery (extensive revision and expansion)
 * Rotating biological contactor (extensive expansion and editing)
 * Savannah River Site (extensive editing, consolidation and shortening)
 * SCFM (extensive re-format and re-write as well as expansion)
 * Selective catalytic reduction (extensive copy editing and Wikifying)
 * SMHI (major, extensive expansion)
 * Stack effect (a significant revision)
 * Syngas (significant revision and expansion)
 * Template:Pressure Units (a significant amount of revision)
 * Vacuum distillation (extensive re-formatting and expansion)
 * Vapor pressure (extensive re-write, reformatting and expansion)
 * Visbreaker (extensive re-formatting, sourcing, Wikifying and copy editing)
 * Wastewater (significant revision and expansion)
 * Water cooling (significant revision and expansion)