Talk:Chemical engineering
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[edit] Petrochemical Industry
As a chemical engineering major, I find it odd that this article does not mention chemical engineers in the petrochemical industry, especially since it has been a historic source of employment for ChE's. shoy 01:56, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Drug design
Should the article "Drug design" be linked ?
[edit] Difference between chemical engineering and chemistry
[edit] The example
What is the small, indented text in the midst of the article? If it is excerpted from some source, that should be indicated. Otherwise, it should be made normal size and indentation. - Centrx 00:24, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- I rewrote the article a long time ago as the english previously used was fairly poor. I added the illustration to explain a common misconception of what Chem Eng is actually about. Someone later must have thought it ancillary to the main flow of the article -- Journeyman 06:14, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- I think the text is too long, convoluted and vague to be of any use. I would like to see an example of a real scale up, and none of this "maybe". --Vuo 15:12, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
- Perhaps someone could write about the Haber-Bosch process mentioned? Journeyman 03:57, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
- I think the text is too long, convoluted and vague to be of any use. I would like to see an example of a real scale up, and none of this "maybe". --Vuo 15:12, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Quality vs Quantity
In the section discussing the differences between chem eng and chem, it should mention simply that chemistry is concerned with quality while chem eng focuses on quantity.
- Sorry, I disagree with this statement. We, Chem Eng. are also concern about quality. There is not point on optimizing a process to get the most (quantity) out of it if we do not at least keep a minimum level of quality. --Ozzyprv 04:04, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
- I concur with Ozzyprv. Chemical engineers focus production, purity and price. For example, whey protein (WPC) at 20%(w/w) purity sells for a lot less than 90%(w/w) but each has a market. Thus, one company will choose to make lots of 20% WPC for a low price, while another will choose to make smaller amounts of 90% WPC for a higher price. The distinction between quality and quantity is too simplistic. Journeyman 03:56, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Difference between chemical engineering and process engineering
I don't understand the distinction drawn in the article between process engineering in particular, and chemical engineering in general. My understanding is that chemical engineering is about the design, development, operation and maintenance of value adding processes. From what I recall of my first-year lectures about the history of Chem Eng, the term Process Engineering was proposed because chemical engineers were branching out from the traditional (often petrochemical) industries into food, pharmacology, materials and other processing industries. The term process engineering is used/prefered because the emphasis of chemical engineering has never been purely the chemistry, but the process. Thus, the terms chemical engineering and process engineering are co-extensive/synonymous.
The paragraph under Modern chemical engineering attempts to draw a distinction between chemical engineering and process engineering, however all I think it does is explain that chemical engineers work in a diverse range of industries - not that they are no longer engaged in the "design, development, operation and maintenance of value adding processes". Journeyman 03:45, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Vandalism
Someone has added childish statements and vandalised the begining of the article. Can someone here clean that up or report it? Also, someone has put "bob saget" in one of the sections.
[edit] Chemical and Bio Engineering WikiProject tag
Khetankhare, I note that you added the subject WikiProject tag. Before urging others to join, the first thing you should do is to create a User page and a Discussion page so that people can communicate with you. As for the coverage of chemical engineering, the only way it will greatly improve is by attracting graduate engineers with at least 5-6 years of real world experience. The coverage will not be improved if the only participants are university students with no real world experience. I apologise for being so blunt but that is the reality of the situation. - mbeychok 19:45, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
