Chemical, Environmental, and Process Engineering

• Environmental engineering and sustainable development

• Process design and optimization

• Product innovation, development and economics

• Process intensification

• Nanotechnology

• New materials & structured products

• Intelligent polymers

• Green organic synthesis routes

• Process integration

• Environmental engineering & management

• Sustainable & clean technologies

• SCF as solvent substitutes

 
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Fundamentals

• Chemical engineering fundamentals

• Physical, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry

• Chemical engineering educational challenges and development

• Chemical reaction engineering

• Chemical engineering equipment design and process design

• Thermodynamics

• Catalysis & reaction engineering

• Particulate systems

• Rheology

• Multifase flows

• Interfacial & colloidal phenomena

• Transport phenomena in porous/granular media

• Membranes and membrane science

• Crystallization

• Distillation, absorption and extraction

• Ionic liquids/electrolyte solutions

 
Multi-scale and/or Multi-disciplinary Approaches

• Process system, instrumentation and control

• Product engineering and product development

• Product design & innovation

• Nanomanufacturing

• Controlled release of the active ingredient

• Energy & nuclear sciences

• Energy and environment

• CFD & chemical engineering

• Food engineering

• Nanomaterials

• Particle technology

• Mathematical modeling in chemical engineering

• Macromolecular Science and Engineering

• Advanced materials processing

 
Systematic Methods and Tools for Managing the Complexity

• Multiscale modeling

• Process synthesis & design

• Process control & operations

• Process Safety Management

• Supply chain management & business decision support

• Advances in computational & numerical methods

• Safety & risk management systems

• Systems biology

• Economics and Business Management

• Process Analytical Technology - PAT

• Software architecture, standards and interfaces

Integration of Life Sciences & Engineering

• Biochemical Engineering

• Biotechnology

• Product Engineering in the Bio Industries

• Self-organisation in the Bio-sciences and elsewhere

• Delivery of the final product

• Biotechnology applied to production of new and better quality food

• Physical chemistry and thermodynamics for life sciences and biotechnology

• Improvement of environmental remediation processes

• Food process technology and engineering

• The impact of bio-based polymeric materials

• Biochemical and bio-molecular engineering

• Bioengineering and biomedical engineering

• Biological and Medicinal Chemistry

• Energy and environment

• Forest product processing

• Milk product processing