Sustainable Process DevelopmentChemical Engineers are today focusing their disciplines on the use of alternative feedstocks such as biomass and societal waste to produce chemicals and energy. Their ai ...
In the early part of the last century, a parallel concept called Unit Processes was used to classify reactive processes. Thus oxidations, reductions, alkylations, etc. formed separate unit processes a ...
The answer, provided by Arthur D. Little to the President of MIT, was to emphasize the approach chemical engineers took to the design and analysis of processes rather than a process or a product. The ...
For the other established branches of engineering, there were ready associations in the mind of the common man: Mechanical Engineering meant machines, Electrical Engineering meant circuitry, and Civil ...
Early programmes simply married industrial chemistry with mechanical engineering. For the profession to be born, proponents needed to clearly define their activity as something more than a mishmash of ...
Industrial Chemistry was being practiced in the mid 1800s, but it was not until the 1880s that the engineering elements required to control chemical processes were being recognized as a distinct profe ...
The Industrial Revolution led to an unprecedented escalation in demand, both with regard to quantity and quality, for bulk chemicals such as sulfuric acid and soda ash. This meant two things: one, the ...
Chemical engineering as a discipline that was developed out of those practicing "industrial chemistry" in the late 19th century. Before the Industrial Revolution (18th century), industrial chemicals a ...
