PART 1 CHEMICAL PROCESS INDUSTRY 1
Unit 1 Chemical Industry 1
Reading Material 1: Evolution of Chemical Industry 8
Unit 2 Research and Development 15
Reading Material 2: The Anatomy of a Chemical Manufacturing Process 22
Unit 3 Typical Activities of Chemical Engineers 25
Reading Material 3: Excel in Your Engineering 32
Unit 4 Sources of Chemicals 37
Reading Material 4: Organic Chemicals from Oil, Natural Gas and Coal 45

PART 2 CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGIES 52
Unit 5 Basic Chemicals 52
Reading Material 5: Major Sectors of the Chemical Industry 56
Unit 6 Chlor-Alkali and Related Processes 60
Reading Material 6: Sulphuric Acid 66
Unit 7 Ammonia, Nitric Acid and Urea 70
Reading Material 7: Haber- Bosch Process 77
Unit 8 Petroleum Processing 81
Reading Material 8: Coal- Conversion Processes 88
Unit 9 Polymers 94
Reading Material 9: Polymerization Techniques 100

PART 3 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 105
Unit 10 What Is Chemical Engineering? 105
Reading Material 10: Curriculum of Chemical Engineering 112
Unit 11 Chemical and Process Thermodynamics 117
Reading Material 11: Heat Transfer 123
Unit 12 What Do We Mean by Transport Phenomena? 127
Reading Material 12: Fluid- Flow Phenomena 131
Unit 13 Unit Operations in Chemical Engineering 135
Reading Material 13: 139
Unit 14 Distillation 145
Reading Material 14: Plate Columns and Packed Columns 151
Unit 15 Solvent Extraction, Leaching and Adsorption 156
Reading Material 15: Ion Exchange 162
Unit 16 Evaporation, Crystallization, and Drying 167
Reading Material 16: Separation Processes 173
Unit 17 Chemical Reaction Engineering 177
Reading Material 17: Reactor Technology 182

PART 4 FRONTIERS OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING IN 21st CENTURY 189
Unit 18 Paradigm Shift in Chemical Engineering 189
Reading Material 18: Molecular Structure and Property: Product Engineering 189
Reading Material 19: An Overview of Process Intensification 193
Unit 19 Frontiers in Polymer Science 199
Reading Material 20: Machine Learning, Emerging Trends in Polymer Science 199
Reading Material 21: Upcycling Commodity Polymers 204
Unit 20 Scaling Direct Air Carbon Capture 210
Reading Material 22: A Roadmap for Achieving Scalable, Safe, and Low- Cost Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage 210
Reading Material 23: Priority Initiatives for Gigaton Deployment of Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage 217
Unit 21 AI for Chemical Engineering 221
Reading Material 24: Data- Driven Molecular Design and Simulation in Modern Chemical Engineering 221
Reading Material 25: Combining Theory and Experiment in Electrocatalysis: Insights into Materials Design 226
Unit 22 Transport Phenomena in Biological Systems 232
Reading Material 26: Drug Delivery Systems 232
Reading Material 27: Transport in Biological Systems: Some Unique Aspects 237

APPENDIXES 243
Appendix 1 化学化工常用构词 243
Appendix 2 常见有机基因 245
Appendix 3 有机化合物命名法 246