CEABA-VtB: Coverage
CEABA-VtB focuses on advances in chemical engineering and biotechnology that are industrially important.
Below are listed the main topics covered by CEABA-VtB. See also the more detailed list of subjects covered by the constituent current awareness bulletins:
CEABA-VtB topics
The broad main topics covered in CEABA-VtB are:
- Chemical and process engineering
- Production processes and process development
- Measurement and process control
- Equipment and plant
- Materials technology and testing, corrosion
- Mathematical methods and modelling
- Environmental protection and safety
- Bioprocess engineering and process development
- Fermentation, enzymology and biotransformation
- Information technology
- Utilities and services
- Economics and management
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Process and Chemical Engineering and its equivalent in German, Verfahrenstechnische Berichte, cover industrially applicable publications in chemical and process engineering:
- Process Design and Cost Engineering
New processes, plant construction
- Process Operation, Loss Prevention, and Optimisation
Process enhancements, pollution control, legislation
- Reaction Kinetics and Thermodynamics
Includes model reactions and reaction parameters, catalytic reactions
- Physicochemical Properties
Phase equilibria, critical properties
- Heat Transfer
Heat exchangers, drying
- Flow
Single and multi-phase flow phenomena, including viscosity
- Diffusional Operations (Separations)
Separation processes such as chromatography, distillation, extraction, ion-exchange, non-mechanical scrubbing, membranes, etc
- Diffusional Operations (Contacts and Reactions)
Operations involving chemical reaction, contacting, mixing, and solution
- Mechanical Operations
Size increase and reduction, filtration, screening, settling, mechanical scrubbing, bulk solid handling etc.
- Safety in Process and Chemical Engineering
Plant accidents, hazards, and precautions (not environmental studies)
- Corrosion and Corrosion Prevention
Corrosion kinetics and mechanisms, methods to prevent corrosion
- Reactors, Plant Equipment, and Techniques
Equipment notes without fundamental studies or specific applications, fouling, pumps, valves, compressors, piping
- Control and Process Instrumentation
Measuring and control devices and strategies, applications thereof, process data management, sampling
- Computers and their Application
Plant design software, process simulation, mathematical modelling, computer networks, information and communication technology
- Analysis and Testing of Materials
Methods and devices for material testing, e.g. for determining hardness, elasticity, temperature resistance, creep strength
- Energy Generation, Distribution and Use
Utilities for energy conversion and distribution of power, including sustainable power generation
- Civil Engineering and Building
Building and insulation materials, properties and application thereof, including pavement, etc.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Production of electronic devices, electrochemistry, sensor materials and other materials used in electronics
- Mechanical Engineering
Joining technology, plant equipment maintenance, surface technology
- Treatment and Recycling
Processes for the treatment of any kind of waste (gas, liquid, or solid). Environmental issues in general (e.g. greenhouse effect, pollution by substances or processes)
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Material Science
New materials, e.g. nanomaterials, high temperature materials, conducting polymers, and their properties
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Mathematical modelling, computer simulation and laboratory scale measurements useful for the design of chemical engineering processes
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