The book is notable for being the first technical publication of a method for the rigorous tray-by-tray design of steam distillation towers for removing hydrogen sulfide from oil refinery wastewaters.
The design method was also presented at a World Petroleum Congress Meeting shortly after the book was published.
The book became a classic in its field and is available in major university, public and industrial libraries worldwide.
It is no longer in print, but photocopies can be obtained from the ProQuest Company's Books On Demand service.
[2] One of the book reviews is that of Dr. Nelson V. Nemerow, a Civil Engineering professor at Syracuse University in New York state, published in 1968 in the American Chemical Society's journal Environmental Science and Technology.