As I wrote to "Time Travel," my name is cited in somewhere of a review article of International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering vol.(2004). I read the abstract of the review article and thought it was very difficult for me to understand the article because I had not thought about such problems for a long time.
At the same time, I wanted to read the text of the article. But my old computer was not able to download the full text of the article. Recently I got a new computer and downloaded the full text. The article is a general review of many reviews about the multiphase chemical reactor and is 74 pages as the A4 size I looked for my name right away with my own eyes but could not find it. Next I got the word processor to read it and to search my name. The word processor found my name at once in following Table.
Article
Setup
Fluid/solid system
Operating conditions
name1 and name2
(1980)Column:
> Dc: 0.152m
> Hc:4.5 m> Air/water/
>Glass beads:
- dp: 214-893 mm
- rp: 2745 kg/m3>Ug: 0.013-0.052 m/s
>UL: 0.0041-0.045 m/s***** ***** ***** ***** *****
***** ***** ***** *****
***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** name3 et al. (1992)
Column:
- Use data of name4 and
My name(1969), Farkas and
Leblond (1969), Kato and et al.
(1972),
Tsutsumi and et al. (1987)> Air/water
> Dowex particles
> Glass beads
> Sand particles
> Alumina
> Coal
- dp: 17-700 mm
- rp: 1300-2580 kg/m3> Ug: ? m/s
> UL: 0 m/sname5 et al. (1996)
Column:
> Dc: 0.10 m
> Hc: 1 m
> Distributor:
- Porous tubes
- Packed-bed
- Perforated plate> Air/water
> Glass beads
> PVC
> Binary mixture
- dp: 1000-5500 mm
- rp: 1320-2500 kg/m3> Ug: 0.01-0.11 m/s
> UL: 0.058-0.065 m/s
My paper is not directly cited. The general review article cited a review article which had cited my paper. The content of the review article was difficult for me as expected. But I found that the name of the author, who cited my paper, appeared repeatedly in the general review article. So I used the function of the word processor for searching the character string and chased the author's name.
As the result I understood vaguely the reason why my name appeared in the review. The author probably used my data for showing the validity of his model. I think my paper that was written about 40-year ago finished the role as a pioneer.
By the way I counted the number of the words used in the general review article by using the function of the word processor. The number was 31,209. I thought that it was natural that my eyes were not able to find one word, my name.
I think the performance of the word processor is wonderful. But I do not surprise because I continue to use the word processor from almost its beginning and to watch progress in its performances. But I am really surprised by the speed of the Internet system. The system found my name at once from almost infinitely many words on the world wide web. I cannot imagine even the outline of the mechanism. Until I met with my own case, I have used the search function of the Internet without intention. But now I know the enormous power of the Internet and feel a kind of fear.
uploaded November 1, 2009