Petroleum Chemistry

Processing Technologies

Process engineering focuses around the design, operation, control, optimization and intensification of chemical, physical, and biological processes. Process engineering encompasses a huge scope of enterprises, such as agriculture, automotive, biotechnical, chemical, food, material development, mining, nuclear, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and software development. The application of systematic computer-based methods to process engineering is "process systems engineering".

Process engineering includes the usage of numerous tools and methods. Depending on the precise idea of the framework, processes need to be simulated and modeled using mathematics and computer science. Processes where phase change and phase equilibria are significant require significant in energy and efficiency. Conversely, processes that focus on the stream of material and energy as they approach equilibria are best analyzed using the disciplines of fluid mechanics and transport phenomena. Disciplines within the field of mechanics need to be applied in the presence of fluids or porous and scattered media. Materials engineering standards also need to be applied, when relevant.