Category: Basic Principles
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Types of Jobs Chemical Engineers Perform
Chemical engineers perform a wide range of jobs. Moreover, during your career, you are likely to have a number of different types of jobs. Following are the general types of jobs that chemical engineers perform:
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Ethics
Engineering ethics is a collection of moral principles applied in engineering practice. Put simply, engineering ethics is the rules of fair play that engineers operate under while serving the public, their employer, the client, and the profession. Engineering offers great potential for contributing to the public good, but at the same time, it can cause…
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Sustainability
A sustainable product is a product that meets the current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs while protecting human health and the needs of society. Chemical engineers are ideally suited to evaluate the sustainability of a wide range of products and technologies, and therefore, we present an overview of sustainability and green…
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Introduction
Chemical engineers deal with processes that convert raw materials into useful products. Many times, these processes involve reactions followed by purification of the products, such as chemical reactions followed by concentration of the products, biological reactions followed by systems that recover and purify the products, or reactions and recovery of products on a nanometer scale.…