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2 What is Chemical Engineering?
2 What is Chemical Engineering?
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b The definition of the chemical processing industries (CPI) used in this table is the one used by Data Resources and Chemical Engineering in compiling their statistics on these industries.
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The first boom of employment of chemical engineers in the oil industry was on. During this period of intensive development of unit operations, other classical tools of chemical engineering analysis were introduced or were extensively developed.
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This training has enabled chemical engineers to become leading contributors to a number of interdisciplinary areas, including catalysis, colloid science and technology, combustion, electrochemical engineering, and polymer science and technology. A NEW PARADIGM FOR CHEMICAL ENGINEERING Over the next few years, a confluence of intellectual advances, technological challenges, and economic driving forces will shape a new model of what chemical engineering is and what chemical engineers do (Table 2.21.
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better approximations, and large computers to solve problems rigorously Practitioners have access to many sophisticated analytical instruments Practitioners have multiple career changes Academic research is mostly performed by single principalAcademic research is also performed by multidisciplinary investigators within chemical engineering departmentsgroups of principal investigators, sometimes in centers or other organizational environments Research and education focus on the mesoscale (equipment level) Research and education also include the microscale (molecular level)
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The focus of chemical engineering has always been industrial processes that change the physical state or chemical composition of materials. Chemical engineers engage in the synthesis, design, testing, scale-up, operation, control, and optimization of these processes.
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The position of chemical engineering as the engineering discipline with the strongest tie to the molecular sciences is an asset, since such sciences as chemistry, molecular biology, biomedicine, and solid-state physics are providing the seeds for tomorrow's technologies. Chemical engineering has a bright future as the "interracial discipline" that will bridge science and engineering in the multidisciplinary environments where these new technologies will be brought into being.
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