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What is Chemical Engineering?
Chemical Engineering is a broad discipline based on mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology that applies principles of chemical engineering science and process systems engineering for the development and commercialization of new products and processes. Chemical engineering science provides experimental and theoretical models for predicting the types of chemical reactions that occur in mixtures, the rates of reactions, the flow of mass, and the transfer of heat in materials. Process systems engineering provides methodologies for the systematic design, control and analysis of processes, as well as their economic evaluation, and safety and environmental assessment.
Chemical Engineering distinguishes itself from the other engineering disciplines in its focus on molecular phenomena and on process. Molecular phenomena are at the root of technologies including medical technology, energy production, combustion, microchip fabrication, bioprocessing, environmental remediation and innumerable others. All involve the controlled conversion of chemicals and molecules from one form into another by processes designed, developed, and optimized by Chemical Engineers. |
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