Concepts of Chemical Engineering 4 Chemists

Concepts of Chemical

Engineering 4 Chemists

Stefaan J.R. Simons

Department of Chemical Engineering,

University College London, London, UK

ISBN-13: 978-0-85404-951-6

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r The Royal Society of Chemistry 2007

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Preface

This book is meant as a handbook and resource guide for chemists

(and other scientists) who either nd themselves working alongside

chemical engineers or who are undertaking chemical engineering-type

projects and who wish to communicate with their colleagues and

understand chemical engineering principles. The book has arisen out

of the short course, Concepts of Chemical Engineering for Chemists,

held annually at UCL since 1999 and the forerunner to the Royal

Society of Chemistry’s ‘‘4 Chemists’’ series of professional training

courses, of which it is now part. It can be used as accompanying

material for the course, or as a stand-alone reference book. The course

itself is designed to provide basic information on the main aspects of

chemical engineering in a relatively simple, but practical, manner.

Hence, while this book tries to emulate this, it also includes worked

examples, plus extensive reference lists and bibliographies in order that

the reader can research elsewhere for more detail and for aspects that are

not covered in the book.

This book aims to give chemists an insight into the world of chemical

engineering, outlining the basic concepts and explaining the terminology

of, and systems approach to, process design. It can be said that chemists

create new molecules and compounds and chemical engineers manufac-

ture these into useful products on a commercial scale, but, of course, the

two disciplines do not work in isolation; chemistry and chemical engi-

neering are intertwined. One only has to look at the history of chemical

engineering and its origins in chemistry (or, more correctly, applied

chemistry) to appreciate the close relationship between the two and their

shared foundation in molecular behaviour. The reader is referred to

Darton et al.’s collection of visionary essays on chemical engineering’s

role in society 1 and the Whitesides report, ‘‘Beyond the Molecular

Frontier’’, 2 which reect on the importance of chemists and chemical

engineering working effectively together to tackle the enormous chal-

lenges facing the world today.

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