Person
Broadhead, Charles Frederick (1882 - 1962)
- Born
- 18 May 1882
Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England - Died
- 8 October 1962
Kew, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Chemical engineer and Business executive
Summary
Charles Broadhead, of the Metropolitan Gas Company in Melbourne, succeeded in constructing a complete gasification plant around the 1930s. Such plants attempted to maximise the yield of gas by combining the action of vertical retorts with that of water gas plants which extracted the last vestiges of gas from coke. He achieved an international reputation for his work on this process, and in 1937 was awarded the gold medal by the Institute of Gas Engineers in London for a paper on "The Consolidation of Gas", in which this process was described.
Details
Educated University College, Nottingham.
Chronology
- 1908 - 1912
- Career position - Engineer and manager, Middleton (Lancashire) Corporation Gasworks
- 1912 - 1925
- Career position - Chief engineer, Brisbane Gas Company
- 1919
- Career event - Foundation Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1925 - 1941
- Career position - Chief engineer, Metropolitan Gas Company, Melbourne.
- 1933 - 1934
- Career event - President, The Australian Gas Institute
- 1937
- Award - Gold Medal, for paper 'The Consolidation of Gas', Institute of Gas Engineers (London)
- 1939
- Award - Kernot Memorial Medal, for distinguished engineering achievement in Australia. Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne
- 1941 -
- Career position - Managing Director, Colonial Gas Association Ltd
- 1962
- Life event - Cremated, Memorialised, Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Victoria
Related entries
Published resources
Resources
- 'Broadhead, Charles Frederick (18820518-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1477072. Details
See also
- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_b.html. Details
Rosanne Walker; Ken McInnes
Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 31 August 2023
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