Trends in chemical engineering
The past few years have seen a tremendous change of approaches to chemical engineering. For a very long time unit operations used to be the organising criterion and most of research could be summarised under a respective headline representing and introduced in one of the respective divisions. Some years ago, shortly but steadily interdisciplinary approaches became more and more popular. Co-operations of teams each of them representing a certain discipline and contributing their special scientific background became more popular – a fact that is reflected by the increasing number of authors of most published scientific papers.
Today, as a result of the development, completely new topics are arising: micro reaction technology, process intensification, green chemistry, change of raw materials with an emphasis on renewables.
The journal Chemical Engineering and Technology, from Wiley-VCH, is a platform for the exchange of knowledge has accepted this request. It combines papers which reflect different aspects of such topics and publishes them within topical issues.
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