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Definition of Chemical engineering
1. Noun. The branch of engineering that is concerned with the design and construction and operation of the plants and machinery used in industrial chemical processes.
2. Noun. The activity of applying chemistry to the solution of practical problems.
Definition of Chemical engineering
1. Noun. The branch of engineering that deals with the design, construction and operation of industrial process plants, and the physical, chemical and biological processes to create substances or energy in a useful and economic form. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chemical Engineering
Literary usage of Chemical engineering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"The recently developing interest in reaction analysis has served to reorient
chemical engineering research toward the reaction itself and increasingly to ..."
2. Engineering Education: Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Society by American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education (U.S.). Meeting (1902)
"chemical engineering may be regarded as the economical performance of chemical
... In one sense chemical engineering is the oldest branch of human activity; ..."
3. Catalogue by Tufts University, East Tennessee university (1903)
"chemical engineering The course in chemical engineering covers a period of four
years, and leads to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Chemical ..."
4. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"5 Professor of chemical engineering, Ordnance School of Application, Aberdeen
Proving Ground, Maryland. 1 Received March, 1920. Published by permission of ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"We, however, will emphasize more particularly the twin fields of industrial
chemistry and chemical engineering, because in the nature of things this field ..."
6. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1917)
"It may also be possible to use this as a means of quenching steel that is to be
hardened only on the surface. INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY AND chemical engineering ..."
7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"It would have been better had they been called chemical engineers, for this might
have induced the study of chemical engineering in the colleges many years ..."
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