Papers of Denis Henry Desty FRS, inventor Papers and correspondence of scientist and inventor Denis Desty. The collection covers Desty's career at BP, where he worked primarily on gas chromatography and combustion science. It includes lecture notes and slides as well as working papers on gas flaring, matrix burners, and the VIKOMA oil spill cleanup system which Desty invented. Some of the later records relate to Desty's consultancy work for various companies. In addition to paper records, the collection contains a significant amount of film material. 1960s-1990s