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Introduction to Chemical Engineering | Lecture 1
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Professor Channing Robertson of the Stanford University Chemical Engineering Department gives an introductory lecture, outline, and background for the course. Introduction to Chemical Engineering (E20) is an introductory course offered by the Stanford University Engineering Department. It provides a basic overview of the chemical engineering field today and delves into the applications of chemical engineering. Stanford Chemical Engineering Department: cheme.stanford.edu Stanford University: www.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com
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What is Chemical Engineering
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One of the oldest departments of Newark College of Engineering, the Otto H. York Department of Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering awarded its first three baccalaureate degrees in 1923. Master's degrees were added after World War II, as returning veterans swelled the college's enrollment as well as the engineering workforce. The doctoral degree program was added in the late 50s, and the first PhD was awarded in 1964. An MS in Pharmaceutical Engineering program was established in 2004. From its earliest days, the department incorporated real-world work experience into the curriculum through cooperative education with area companies. The department's faculty has also developed research partnerships with industry and government. Chemical engineering alumni hold leading positions in business, law, research and academe. Today the department has an enrollment of 132 undergraduates majoring in chemical engineering, and more than 50 pursuing graduate studies. Last year, NJIT awarded 20 bachelor's degrees in chemical engineering, 13 master's degrees, and three PhDs. Chemical engineering currently enrolls the largest percentage of female students of any department in Newark College of Engineering -- 41 percent of the department's students are women. In 2002, the department was renamed to honor Otto H. York, chemical engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist, who is a long-time benefactor of the university. York has pledged $1 million to the department to establish <b>...</b>
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Chemical Engineer
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A typical day in the life of a young chemical engineer at Unilever.
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Challenges in Chemical Engineering - University of Michigan College of Engineering
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Chemical engineers work on a variety of significant issues and challenges, including energy, health related projects and nano technology. This video takes a look at just one area of research taking place at the University of Michigan's Chemical Engineering department. For more information, go to engin.umich.edu or http
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CollegeGrad.com - Career Videos, Chemical Engineers. From the foods we eat to our clothes furniture and automobiles, chemicals play a large role in our lives. Chemical Egnineers convert scientific discoveries into marketable products.
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Watch how Sylvie uses chemical engineering to make everyday foods healthier.
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Chemical Engineering: A New Era
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Tufts University video submission for 2008 AIChE contest. Special thanks to the production team: Yung Fung, Fred Huang, Peter O'Regan, Rayna Trietsch, and Sterling Wall. Narration: Fred Huang Score Composition: Yung Fung *Additional DNA molecular footage provided by Wright Center for Science Education.
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Chemical Engineering
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Interviews with students at the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham. For more information about Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham, go to www.birmingham.ac.uk
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As seen on www.QuietAgent.com , Anonymously evaluating every job, every day for you. Design chemical plant equipment and devise processes for manufacturing chemicals and products, such as gasoline, synthetic rubber, plastics, detergents, cement, paper, and pulp, by applying principles and technology of chemistry, physics, and engineering.
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Introduction to Chemical Engineering
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Chemical Engineering at Columbia SEAS is more than just chemistry, it has a flexible curriculum that includes genomic engineering, pharmaceuticals, chemistry, the environment and space, among others. Watch professors in the video at right share their insights and some of the career opportunities. Chemical Engineering on SEAS TV tv.seas.columbia.edu
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The Future of Chemical Engineering
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The video starts in a depressing scenario of the world and progresses to an upbeat view of the future
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A dangerous accident requires the skills of a very special type of engineer. escapepodfilms.com http facebook.com
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Introduction to Chemical Engineering | Lecture 2
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The head TA for Introduction to Chemical Engineering (E20) fills in for Professor Channing Robertson and discusses the modern oil refinery, focusing upon the process and mechanisms behind refining crude oil. Introduction to Chemical Engineering (E20) is an introductory course offered by the Stanford University Engineering Department. It provides a basic overview of the chemical engineering field today and delves into the applications of chemical engineering. Stanford Chemical Engineering Department: cheme.stanford.edu Stanford University: www.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com
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Introduction to Chemical Engineering | Lecture 3
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Professor Channing Robertson of the Stanford University Chemical Engineering Department discusses units, comparing the different methods and systems of measuring different variables. Introduction to Chemical Engineering (E20) is an introductory course offered by the Stanford University Engineering Department. It provides a basic overview of the chemical engineering field today and delves into the applications of chemical engineering. Stanford Chemical Engineering Department: cheme.stanford.edu Stanford University: www.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com
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Introduction to Chemical Engineering | Lecture 4
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Professor Channing Robertson of the Stanford University Chemical Engineering Department discusses balancing equations and the conservation of mass in relation to process design. Introduction to Chemical Engineering (E20) is an introductory course offered by the Stanford University Engineering Department. It provides a basic overview of the chemical engineering field today and delves into the applications of chemical engineering. Stanford Chemical Engineering Department: cheme.stanford.edu Stanford University: www.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com
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Meet the Majors: Chemical Engineering (Petroleum)
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Meet David, a chemical engineering student at the University of Southern California, with a degree emphasis in Petroleum Engineering. David tells us about classes, clubs, internships, and more, all related to his major.
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Texas A&M; University at Qatar, Chemical Engineering Program
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Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University at Qatar, to promote the Chemical Engineering Program at Texas A&M University at Qatar.
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Chemical Engineering World News
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Why do so many students choose Chemical Engineering as a major?
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Chemical Engineering
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Chemical Engineers turn new advances in chemistry, materials science, and biology into large scale practical realities in the everyday world. They are in the forefront in many areas of current technology, including genetic engineering, the development of artificial organs, the creation of alternate sources of power, protection of the environment, and the development of superconducting materials. Chemical Engineers ensure the efficient operation of industrial plants and create new Chemical processes in a continual effort to get the most from our limited supply of natural resources. To find out more about majoring in Chemical Engineering at UD, check out: www.udel.edu Edited by: Laura Schultz '13
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Introduction to Chemical Engineering | Lecture 5
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Professor Channing Robertson of the Stanford University Chemical Engineering Department discusses the design and function of an apheresis machine. Introduction to Chemical Engineering (E20) is an introductory course offered by the Stanford University Engineering Department. It provides a basic overview of the chemical engineering field today and delves into the applications of chemical engineering. Stanford Chemical Engineering Department: cheme.stanford.edu Stanford University: www.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com
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Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science (e.g., chemistry and physics), and life sciences (e.g., biology, microbiology and biochemistry) with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms. In addition, modern chemical engineers are also concerned with pioneering valuable new materials and related techniques – which are often essential to related fields such as nanotechnology, fuel cells and biomedical engineering.[1] Within chemical engineering, two broad subgroups include 1) design, manufacture, and operation of plants and machinery in industrial chemical and related processes ("chemical process engineers"); and 2) development of new or adapted substances for products ranging from foods and beverages to cosmetics to cleaners to pharmaceutical ingredients, among many other products ("chemical product engineers").
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Etymology[link]
A 1996 British Journal for the History of Science article cites James F. Donnelly for mentioning a 1839 reference to chemical engineering in relation to the production of sulfuric acid.[2] In the same paper however, George E. Davis, an English consultant, was credited for having coined the term.[3] The History of Science in United States: An Encyclopedia puts this at around 1880.[4] "Chemical engineering", describing the use of mechanical equipment in the chemical industry, became common vocabulary in England after 1850.[5] By 1910, the profession, "chemical engineer", was already in common use in Britain and the United States.[6]
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Main article: History of chemical engineering
Chemical engineering emerged upon the development of unit operations, a fundamental concept of the discipline. Most authors agree that Davis invented unit operations if not substantially developed it.[7] He gave a series of lectures on unit operations at the Manchester Technical School (University of Manchester today) in 1887, considered to be one of the earliest such about chemical engineering.[8] Three years before Davis' lectures, Henry Edward Armstrong taught a degree course in chemical engineering at the City and Guilds of London Institute. Armstrong's course "failed simply because its graduates ... were not especially attractive to employers." Employers of the time would have rather hired chemists and mechanical engineers.[4] Courses in chemical engineering offered by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States, Owen's College in Manchester, England and University College London suffered under similar circumstances.[9]
Starting from 1888,[10] Lewis M. Norton taught at MIT the first chemical engineering course in the United States. Norton's course was contemporaneous and essentially similar with Armstrong's course. Both courses, however, simply merged chemistry and engineering subjects. "Its practitioners had difficulty convincing engineers that they were engineers and chemists that they were not simply chemists."[4] Unit operations was introduced into the course by William Hultz Walker in 1905.[11] By the early 1920s, unit operations became an important aspect of chemical engineering at MIT and other US universities, as well as at Imperial College London.[12] The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), established in 1908, played a key role in making chemical engineering considered an independent science, and unit operations central to chemical engineering. For instance, it defined chemical engineering to be a "science of itself, the basis of which is ... unit operations" in a 1922 report; and with which principle, it had published a list of academic institutions which offered "satisfactory" chemical engineering courses.[13] Meanwhile, promoting chemical engineering as a distinct science in Britain lead to the establishment of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) in 1922.[14] IChemE likewise helped make unit operations considered essential to the discipline.[15]
New concepts and innovations[link]
By the 1940s, it became clear that unit operations alone was insufficient in developing chemical reactors. While the predominance of unit operations in chemical engineering courses in Britain and the United States continued until the 1960s, transport phenomena started to experience greater focus.[16] Along with other novel concepts, such process systems engineering (PSE), a "second paradigm" was defined.[17][18] Transport phenomena gave an analytical approach to chemical engineering[19] while PSE focused on its synthetic elements, such as control system and process design.[20] Developments in chemical engineering before and after World War II were mainly incited by the petrochemical industry,[21] however, advances in other fields were made as well. Advancements in biochemical engineering in the 1940s, for example, found application in the pharmaceutical industry, and allowed for the mass production of various antibiotics, including penicillin and streptomycin.[22] Meanwhile, progress in polymer science in the 1950s paved way for the "age of plastics".[23]
Lag and environmental awareness[link]
The years after the 1950s are viewed{[by whom?] to have lacked major chemical innovations.[24] Additional uncertainty was presented by declining prices of energy and raw materials between 1950 and 1973. Concerns regarding the safety and environmental impact of large-scale chemical manufacturing facilities were also raised during this period. Silent Spring, published in 1962, alerted its readers to the harmful effects of DDT, a potent insecticide[citation needed]. The 1974 Flixborough disaster in the United Kingdom resulted in 28 deaths, as well as damage to a chemical plant and three nearby villages[citation needed]. The 1984 Bhopal disaster in India resulted in almost 4,000 deaths[citation needed]. These incidents, along with other incidents, affected the reputation of the trade as industrial safety and environmental protection were given more focus.[25] In response, the IChemE required safety to be part of every degree course that it accredited after 1982. By the 1970s, legislation and monitoring agencies were instituted in various countries, such as France, Germany, and the United States.[26]
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Advancements in computer science found applications designing and managing plants, simplifying calculations and drawings that previously had to be done manually. The completion of the Human Genome Project is also seen as a major development, not only advancing chemical engineering but genetic engineering and genomics as well.[27] Chemical engineering principles were used to produce DNA sequences in large quantities.[28] While the application of chemical engineering principles to these fields only began in the 1990s, Rice University researchers see this as a trend towards biotechnology.[29]
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Chemical engineering involves the application of several principles. Key concepts are presented below.
Chemical reaction engineering[link]
Main article: Chemical reaction engineering
Chemical reactions engineering involves managing plant processes and conditions to ensure optimal plant operation. Chemical reaction engineers construct models for reactor analysis and design using laboratory data and physical parameters, such as chemical thermodynamics, to solve problems and predict reactor performance.[30]
Plant design[link]
Chemical engineering design concerns the creation of plans and specification, and income projection of plants. Chemical engineers generate designs according to the clients needs. Design is limited by a number of factors, including funding, government regulations and safety standards. These constraints dictate a plant's choice of process, materials and equipment.[31]
Process design[link]
Main article: Process design
A unit operation is a physical step in an individual chemical engineering process. Unit operations (such as crystallization, drying and evaporation) are used to prepare reactants, purifying and separating its products, recycling unspent reactants, and controlling energy transfer in reactors.[32] On the other hand, a unit process is the chemical equivalent of a unit operation. Along with unit operations, unit processes constitute a process operation. Unit processes (such as nitration and oxidation) involve the conversion of material by biochemical, thermochemical and other means. Chemical engineers responsible for these are called process engineers.[33]
Transport phenomena[link]
Main article: Transport phenomena
Transport phenomena occur frequently in industrial problems. These include fluid dynamics, heat transfer and mass transfer, which mainly concern momentum transfer, energy transfer and transport of chemical species respectively. Basic equations for describing the three transport phenomena in the macroscopic, microscopic and molecular levels are very similar. Thus, understanding transport phenomena requires thorough understanding of mathematics.[34]
Applications and practice[link]
Chemical engineers "develop economic ways of using materials and energy"[36] as opposed to chemists who are more interested in the basic composition of materials and synthesizing products from such. Chemical engineers use chemistry and engineering to turn raw materials into usable products, such as medicine, petrochemicals and plastics. They are also involved in waste management and research. Both applied and research facets make extensive use of computers.[35]
A chemical engineer may be involved in industry or university research where he or she is tasked in designing and performing experiments to create new and better ways of production, controlling pollution, conserving resources and making these processes safer. He/she may be involved in designing and constructing plants as a project engineer. In this field, the chemical engineer uses his/her knowledge in selecting plant equipment and the optimum method of production to minimize costs and increase profitability. After its construction, he/she may help in upgrading its equipment. He/she may also be involved in its daily operations. [37]
Related fields and topics[link]
Today, the field of chemical engineering is a diverse one, covering areas from biotechnology and nanotechnology to mineral processing.
See also[link]
Main article: Outline of chemical engineering
References[link]
- ^ From Petroleum to Penicillin. The First Hundred Years of Modern Chemical Engineering: 1859–1959. – Burnett, J. N.
- ^ Cohen 1996, p. 172.
- ^ Cohen 1996, p. 174.
- ^ a b c Reynolds 2001, p. 176.
- ^ Cohen 1996, p. 186.
- ^ Perkins 2003, p. 20.
- ^ Cohen 1996, pp. 172–173.
- ^ Cohen 1996, p. 175.
- ^ Cohen 1996, p. 178.
- ^ Cohen 1996, p. 180.
- ^ Cohen 1996, p. 183.
- ^ Cohen 1996, p. 184.
- ^ Cohen 1996, p. 187.
- ^ Cohen 1996, p. 189.
- ^ Cohen 1996, p. 190.
- ^ Cohen 1996, p. 185.
- ^ Ogawa 2007, p. 2.
- ^ Perkins 2003, p. 29.
- ^ Perkins 2003, p. 30.
- ^ Perkins 2003, p. 31.
- ^ Reynolds 2001, p. 177.
- ^ Perkins 2003, pp. 32–33.
- ^ Kim 2002, p. 7S.
- ^ Perkins 2003, p. 34.
- ^ Kim 2002, p. 8S.
- ^ Perkins 2003, p. 35.
- ^ Kim 2002, p. 9S.
- ^ American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2003a.
- ^ Rice University.
- ^ Carberry 2001, pp. 1–2.
- ^ Towler & Sinnott 2008, pp. 2–3.
- ^ McCabe, Smith & Hariott 1993, p. 4.
- ^ Silla 2003, pp. 8–9.
- ^ Bird, Stewart & Lightfoot 2002, pp. 1–2.
- ^ a b Garner 2003, pp. 47–48.
- ^ American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2003, Article III.
- ^ Garner 2003, pp. 49–50.
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- Carberry, James J., Chemical and Catalytic Reaction Engineering, McGraw-Hill Chemical Engineering Series, Canada: General Publishing Company, ISBN 0-486-41736-0, LCC TP155.7.C37 2001, LCCN 2001-17315, http://books.google.com/books?id=arJLaKa4yDQC .
- Cohen, Clive (June 1996), "The Early History of Chemical Engineering: A Reassessment", The British Journal for the History of Science (Cambridge University Press) 29 (2), JSTOR 4027832, http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~che/links/The%20early%20history%20of%20chemical%20engineering-%20a%20reassessment.pdf .
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