Subject areas in chemical engineering edit
Heat and mass transfer,
Fluid movement in pipes and channels
Prime movers and other fluid transfer equipment, solids transfer
Fluid transfer and equipment
Fluid movement in fixed beds
Mathematical methods in chem engineering (Bessel functions, Successive approximation, probability functions, etc)
Plant instrumentation Intensive properties/Extensive properties, Bulk properties, Sampling of fluids and solids
Plant instrumentation Sensors, Actuators, Control pumps, In-line analizers, Autoblenders
Plant design principles: Basis of calculations, design constraints, safety factors
Plant maintenance; Planned preventive maintenance and Turnover
Hazards evaluation and operational safety (plant and personnel)
Plant operational factors Throughput, Yield
Operation at extreme conditions Very high pressure, Very high or very low temperatures
Equipment safety Compatibility with reactants/intermediates/products/operating conditions Chemical attack Corrosion Physical attack:Erosion Cavitation
Plant location principles, Environmental safety, Effluents
Size analysis of powders
Unit operations
- Distillation/Rectification/Evaporation
- Extraction/Leaching
- Absorption
- Humidification
- Direct contact condensation/cooling
- Filtration
- Adsorption
- Size separation Elutriation
- Size separation Tabling
- Magnetic separation
- Electrostatic precipitation
- Sedimentation (discussed in the settling article. Sedimentation in Wikipedia is about geology. There is also a Sedimentation (water treatment) article.)
- Electrophoretic separation
- Electrostatic deposition of metals Plating, Alumina processing to Aluminium
- Electrolysis Chlorine & soda manufacture
- Catalysis, Homogeneous/heterogeneous, catayst types, operation cycles,catalyst poisons
- Flotation
- Anaerobic fermentation of organic matter to methane
- Aerobic fermentation of sugars
- Fluidisation