Emilian Bratu

Emilian Bratu and Costin Nenițescu were two senior professors of the Faculty of Industrial Chemistry. The two scholars were good friends who have been deeply respected in the course of their life. Both of them, having German education, have early intuited the necessity of introducing in Romania the Chemical Engineering discipline for higher polytechnic education, starting from the favorable external prospects related to the development of the chemical industry based on national raw material reserves. They fought together to assert chemistry in Polytechnics, and largely thanks to their effort, in 1938 the "Industrial Chemistry" name for Polytechnics faculty was introduced.

Thus, in 1940–1950, Nenițescu supported Bratu's effort for establishing and consolidating of the Department of Processes and Apparatus in Bucharest, which later became the Department of Chemical Engineering, being the first such chair in the country and among the first in Europe. On the other hand, in the early 1950s, Bratu accepted the request of Nenițescu to give a lecture on the progress of chemical engineering, especially in the field of application of chemical similarity in the chemical reactions. The lecture was given to the teaching staff and research collaborators in the field of Organic Chemistry. On the whole, the lecture was a rousing interest.

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• Chemical Engineering Department
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