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Industry used to be king, now the customer is. In year 2000, to adapt the chemical engineering approach to the needs of process industries and meet market demands, the offer is technological. Being a key to survival in global markets, including needs and challenges, the evolution of chemical engineering is received and its ability to cope with the problems encountered by chemical and related process industries is appraised. It appears that the necessary progress will come via a multidisciplinary and time and length multiscale approach that will allow us to satisfy both the markets requirements for specific end-use properties and the environmental and social constraints of the industrial processes. This will be obtained with breakthroughs in molecular modeling, scientific instrumentation and powerful computational tools. This concerns four main objectives for engineers and researchers:- to increase productivity and selectivity through intelligent operation, intensification and multiscale control of processes;- to design novel equipment based on scientific principles and new methods of production;- to extend chemical engineering methodology to product-oriented engineering, i. e. manufacturing end-use properties: the triplet process-product-procedure ;- to implement multiscale application of computational chemical engineering modeling and simulation to real-life situations: from the molecule scale to the overall complex product scale. |
