Chemical Engineering

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Chemical Engineering

Chemical Engineering (pronunciation: /ˈkɛmɪkəl ɛndʒɪˈnɪərɪŋ/) is a branch of Engineering that applies physical sciences (e.g., Chemistry and Physics), life sciences (e.g., Biology, Microbiology, and Biochemistry), together with applied mathematics and economics to produce, transform, transport, and properly use chemicals, materials and energy.

Etymology

The term "Chemical Engineering" is believed to have been first used in 1888 by George E. Davis, a British consultant in Manchester, in a series of twelve lectures given at the Manchester Technical School.

Related Terms

  • Process Design: The design of processes for desired physical and/or chemical transformation of materials. Process design is central to chemical engineering.
  • Biochemical Engineering: A branch of chemical engineering that deals with the design and construction of unit processes that involve biological organisms or molecules.
  • Thermodynamics: A physical science that deals with energy and its interconversion with matter. It is a fundamental concept in chemical engineering.
  • Transport Phenomena: A term used in chemical engineering to describe the study of how heat, mass, and momentum move through and between different mediums.
  • Unit Operations: The basic physical operations of chemical engineering in a chemical process plant, that is, distillation, fluid transportation, heat and mass transfer, evaporation, extraction, drying, crystallization, filtration, mixing, size separation, crushing and grinding, and similar operations.
  • Chemical Process Modeling: A process modeling is a mathematical representation of chemical, physical, biological, and transport processes that occur in a unit operation or a sequence of unit operations in chemical engineering.
  • Chemical Plant: An industrial process plant that manufactures (or otherwise processes) chemicals, usually on a large scale.
  • Chemical Technologist: A professional who applies chemical engineering principles to the practical applications of chemistry.

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