Description: Chemical Engineering is that discipline centrally concerned with the economic, safe, environmentally acceptable manufacture of materials of all types - solid, liquid, or gas. These can be made by chemical or biochemical means. Stemming from the oil and gas industries, we now have a discipline with methods of broad applicability. Why has chemical engineering come to restrict itself to the design and operation of processes? The future of practice lies in the design of products, just as much as with the design of processes. Many levels - perhaps as many as 12 - may be needed ranging from the setting of the structure of a process to the chemistry taking place on a surface. But the processes and products must be coupled together in a sequence that starts with extraction from the earth and ends with a return to the environment. This sequence and its relationship to the environment are now the focus. Is our teaching correct for this new vision? Is the profession brave enough, using the principles established over the last 50 years, to extend significantly its scope? This book, based on Professor Bridgwater's inaugural lecture, is concerned with the future shape of chemical engineering and how teaching, research and practice should be linked. It is, thus, of most interest to those concerned with the future shape of the chemical and processing industries or with the development of new processes and products in academia, government or industry.

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