The Chemical Engineering...

In around 1880 a guy named George E. Davis coined the termed "Chemical Engineering" though the first reference of using mechanical equipment for manufacture of chemicals is given to James F. Donnelly in around 1839. Chemical Engineering based on the building blocks of Unit Operations was taught at MIT; Owen's College, Manchester; University College; London...but failed to impress the employers. It was tough to tell and explain to employers that its graduates were not chemists, and were engineers. But later with works of IChemE, AIChE  the branch gradually picked up. By 1940 it became an essential field diversifying into various other concepts such as Transport Phenomenon.World War 2 saw the growth of Petroleum Sector while after that pharmaceutical Industry with Antibiotics gained importance, In 1950 it was the growth of Polymers and then Plastic took control. Then came the series of disasters like Chernobyl Disaster, Bhopal Gas Tragedy; These increased the safety...

That cream on your face, that pen in your hand, that paper you are writing on, that color on your walls, with cement in them, that coffee on your table, that milk in it,those cookies with it, that sugar in them, The clothes you are wearing, the scent you are using, the Air conditioner in your room, the fuel in your vehicle, the tires it has, the aluminium and plastic body it has, the computer you have. That beverage you have in night or during day time to refresh yourself, the medicine you have to overcome that hangover you had, the cleaner you use to clean your floor.The fertilizers you would have heard of, used by farmers to grow crops and trees providing us fruits and food. All the preservatives, All the chemicals, and useful product in your head, before your eyes that you can think of, that you can see and the plants from where it comes from, machines and processes it undergoes are all Chemical Engineering......

Its a wonderful world.....We are surrounded by innumerable things which make our life an enjoyable process. Chemical Engineering is all about manufacturing these things in the most sustainable and economical way possible. The beauty of this branch of Engineering lies in the fact, that in order to produce a single useful product, hell lot of people work in an interconnected network like a team, like a family.... On this blog we are going to pour ourselves into this wonderful world of Chemical Engineering, A world making our world..... - Amit Saini