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Vivian Fitzgeorge Estcourt
Vivian Fitzgeorge Estcourt
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He was one of many Stanford University engineering graduates who have attained distinction. In 1963 he was macle an honorary life member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers "for distinguished engineering leadership in plant design, operation, organization, anc} management of modern electric power generating facilities." Three years later the Franklin Institute awarcled him the Newcomen GoIc!
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As manager he was in charge of a system of more than four million kilowatts produced by thermal power plants burning gas, oil, delayed coke, fluid coke, sulfonated tar, pitch, and acid sludge, and including the very early Vallecitos and Humboldt Bay nuclear stations, the Geysers geothermal plant, ant! a city business area steam heating plant.
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The extremely important committee work that he spearheaded consisted of collecting and analyzing power plant steam generator anct turbine generator equipment availability statistics as reported by nearly all the companies that were members of the Edison Electric Institute.
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reporting of electrical fly ash characteristics to permit the proper sizing of precipitators, and he formed and chaired an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers committee to address this matter. In the field of sulfur dioxide emission control, he combined the spray dryer and baghouse concepts and was a driving force in the clevelopment and application of this dry sulfur dioxide control system, an approach that is now widely accepted.
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He would sometimes surprise associates at the convention social gatherings by dancing very ably with their wives behavior that seemed completely out of character for the man associates thought him to be: that is, someone possessing solely technical interests. Some of his personal character traits are revealer} by the statements of several individuals who worked closely with him.
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162 MEMORIAL TRIBUTES live his life as he wished, little affected by others, always investigating something, with the accomplishment of his objectives as his reward. He has left an enduring written record of many technical contributions to the utility industry in which he spent a long and very active professional life.
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