The History of Chemical Engineering: Crash Course Engineering #5
Today we'll cover the fourth and final of our core disciplines of engineering: chemical engineering. We'll talk about its history and evolution going from soda ash ...
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Our world is made up of matter. And one way that we study matter is with chemistry. How we use that knowledge leads us to chemical engineering. Chemical engineering is one of the broadest of the engineering fields, focused not only on chemicals – which make up everything – but also on developing and designing plants and processes for manufacturing chemicals. Now, let’s imagine we’ve come up with an amazing new product that we have to create through a chemical process. It could be some new kind of personal water purifier, or makeup that lasts as long as you want it to, or a revolutionary clothing material. Whatever it is, we’re going to have to go through some steps before we all get rich. Once we’ve designed our product, we’ll need to create a facility where we can make...
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Our world is made up of matter. And one way that we study matter is with chemistry. How we use that knowledge leads us to chemical engineering. Chemical engineering is one of the broadest of the engineering fields, focused not only on chemicals – which make up everything – but also on developing and designing plants and processes for manufacturing chemicals. Now, let’s imagine we’ve come up with an amazing new product that we have to create through a chemical process. It could be some new kind of personal water purifier, or makeup that lasts as long as you want it to, or a revolutionary clothing material. Whatever it is, we’re going to have to go through some steps before we all get rich. Once we’ve designed our product, we’ll need to create a facility where we can make...
