Chemical Engineering Volume 1

[Ariano Waiker]

Theoretical Foundations of Chemical Engineering is a peer-reviewed journal encompassing all aspects of theoretical and applied research in chemical engineering.

• Encompasses transport phenomena, surface phenomena, and processes of mixture separation.
• Explores theory and methods of chemical reactor design, combined processes, and multifunctional reactors.
• Includes hydromechanics, thermal, diffusion, and chemical processes and apparatus, membrane processes, and reactors.
• Focuses on information modeling and analysis, energy- and resource-saving processes, and environmentally clean processes and technologies.
• Welcomes manuscripts in English from all countries.

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Protein engineering is a powerful tool to create new proteins with useful functions and behaviors, but it is slow, laborious and requires specialized knowledge, limiting its broad application. Here, the authors present a system that combines AI and experimental automation to autonomously engineer proteins without human intervention.

The design of CO2 electrolyzers is complicated by coupled transport and reaction phenomena. Here the authors develop a continuum model incorporating physical phenomena across multiple scales to predict the activity and selectivity of CO2 electrolysis, along with the loss of CO2 due to crossover in membrane electrode assemblies.

Robust decarbonization strategies for the petrochemical industry are hampered by many sources of uncertainty in greenhouse gas emissions estimates. Here the authors quantify and prioritize uncertainty sources, finding that the most significant factor is the lack of detailed data about specific production processes used in chemical facilities.

Switching between liquid capture and release is important in handling various liquids. Here the authors present connected polyhedral frames that form a network of units that capture or release liquid that is readily switchable locally, dynamically and reversibly, thus functioning as a versatile fluidic processor.

The characterization of light irradiation for intensified flow reactors extends beyond the determination of photon fluxes, requiring the precise determination of optical path lengths. Here the authors introduce a systematic workflow that integrates radiometry, ray-tracing simulations and actinometry to obtain these system parameters.

Controllable and reversible transmembrane transport is a fundamental challenge in building synthetic cells. Here, interfacial energy-mediated bulk transport across artificial cell membranes is developed to mimic a rudimentary form of endocytosis- and exocytosis-like behaviors, facilitating the shuttling of biomolecules such as enzyme substrates, ions and nucleic acids.

Biomolecular condensates can contain multiple phases. The number of droplets of each phase and their location give the condensate a certain architecture. Here the authors present a method to create a range of transient architectures in biomolecular condensates, making the architecture or interfacial area controllable design variables in experiments.

Engineering synthetic cells faces the challenge of transferring biomolecules, such as nucleic acids and proteins, through simple lipid bilayers. Now, a study reveals how energy-dissipating oil droplets can create reconfigurable passageways shuttling biomolecules across liposomal compartments.

Emulsions underpin a wide range of important natural phenomena and many technological applications. However, it remains challenging to create emulsion droplets with specific internal structures. Now, a method has been developed to create macromolecular emulsions with custom architectures by applying non-equilibrium thermodynamic principles to condensate formation.

A structurally robust nanoporous carbon adsorbent that integrates a molecular-selective skin and an internal gas reservoir enables the adsorptive separation of propylene and propane. The surface sieving skin endows the adsorbent with competitive selectivity and the internal reservoir leads to a high propylene capacity, together facilitating the production of high-purity propylene.

Jason Hallett, professor of sustainable chemical technology at Imperial College London, talks to Nature Chemical Engineering about technology translation for spinout companies and the use of ionic liquids in sustainable chemical process design.

Through the use of computational models and machine learning, engineers can expedite the collection of data necessary to ultimately inform strategies in biomaterials design, cellular reprogramming and tissue engineering. With the abundance of information accessible through the use of these tools, DeForest provides perspective as to how engineers can use it to manipulate changes at the molecular level and scale up to tissue-level function.

The article highlights the synergy between chemical engineering, biomaterials science and cell biology to create accurate tissue models. Because light can penetrate native tissue to some degree, using light can give engineers dynamic control over cell signaling in living organisms. This approach could eliminate the need for animal testing, a method that comes with ethical and practical drawbacks.

DeForest concludes the article by stating that chemical engineers thrive in their ability to draw upon drafted blueprints in creating high-value products from lower-value starting materials. In the case of biology, this can look like creating functional tissue or accurate disease models from polymers or adult cells, when applying standard unit operation-based principles.

CET began in 2002 as a vehicle for publication of high-quality papers in chemical engineering, connected with leading international conferences.
In 2014, CET opened a new era as an internationally-recognised journal.

This volume, Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Volume 5: Research Methodologies in Modern Chemistry and Applied Science, is designed to fulfill the requirements of scientists and engineers who wish to be able to carry out experimental research in chemistry and applied science using modern methods. Each chapter describes the principle of the respective method, as well as the detailed procedures of experiments with examples of actual applications. Thus, readers will be able to apply the concepts as described in the book to their own experiments.

This book traces the progress made in this field and its sub-fields and also highlight some of the key theories and their applications and will be a valuable resource for chemical engineers in Materials Science and others.

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