What is Chemical Engineering?
- Putting lab-developed processes into practical applications for the synthesis of products
- Designing a process to produce a given product through all the stages from intake of raw materials to output of finished product
- Understanding how processes work, particularly in relation to how products (fluids or solids) are moved, mixed and separated and how heat is transferred.
- When production process is running, be responsible for:
- Improving the efficiency and safety of the process.
- Evaluating and improving plant operations for performance and product quality.
- Making production processes more environmental friendly by for example, reducing process waste or energy consumption.
- Minimizing costs and maximizing productivity.
- Buying the required equipment and commissioning its installation and operation.
- Operating processes and systems to combine, transport, separate, handle, recycle, and store chemicals and their by-products for a very wide range of process industry:
- Pharmaceuticals and healthcare
- Perfumes and cosmetics
- Soaps, detergents and oils
- Synthetic fibers, polymers
- Microelectronics and advanced materials
- Gas and petrol refining
- Paints, adhesives, varnishes, lacquers, pigments, inks
- Plastics, synthetic resins, composites
- Rubber and rubber products
- Catalysts
- Fertilizers and other agricultural chemicals
- Pollution control and environmental health and safety industries
- Development of new sources of energy
