Special Study: Chemical Engineering

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This Nuffield Advanced Chemistry Special Study enabled students to see something of the scope of the field of chemical engineering, and to appreciate its dependence upon chemical principles The objectives were to show:
• that chemical engineers are concerned with the economic production of chemicals.
• that chemical engineering is the application of the principles of mathematics, physics, and chemistry to the production of chemical substances.
• some of the work in which the chemical engineer becomes involved.
• factors which are often unimportant on a laboratory scale may become very important on a large scale.
• the importance of the chemical industry to the national economy.

Contents of this book:
Chapter 1: What is chemical engineering?
Chapter 2: Working on the large scale
Chapter 3: Development of a process
Chapter 4: Unit operations
Chapter 5: Fluid flow
Chapter 6: Energy conversion
Chapter 7: The chemical industry
Chapter 8: Experimental investigations - an introductory series
Chapter 9: Experimental investigations - an extension series

URL: http://stem.org.uk/rx3bs

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