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Subject areas in chemical engineering
Heat and mass transfer, Fluid movement in pipes and channels

Prime movers and other fluid transfer equipment, solids transfer

Fluid transfer and equipment

Fluid movement in fixed beds

Mathematical methods in chem engineering (Bessel functions, Successive approximation, probability functions, etc)

Plant instrumentation Intensive properties/Extensive properties, Bulk properties, Sampling of fluids and solids

Plant instrumentation Sensors, Actuators, Control pumps, In-line analizers, Autoblenders

Plant design principles: Basis of calculations, design constraints, safety factors

Plant maintenance; Planned preventive maintenance and Turnover

Hazards evaluation and operational safety (plant and personnel)

Plant operational factors Throughput, Yield

Operation at extreme conditions Very high pressure, Very high or very low temperatures

Equipment safety Compatibility with reactants/intermediates/products/operating conditions Chemical attack Corrosion Physical attack:Erosion Cavitation

Plant location principles, Environmental safety, Effluents

Size analysis of powders

Unit operations
 * Distillation/Rectification/Evaporation
 * Extraction/Leaching
 * Absorption
 * Humidification
 * Direct contact condensation/cooling
 * Filtration
 * Adsorption
 * Size separation Elutriation
 * Size separation Tabling
 * Magnetic separation
 * Electrostatic precipitation
 * Sedimentation (discussed in the settling article. Sedimentation in Wikipedia is about geology.  There is also a Sedimentation (water treatment) article.)
 * Electrophoretic separation
 * Electrostatic deposition of metals Plating, Alumina processing to Aluminium
 * Electrolysis Chlorine & soda manufacture
 * Catalysis, Homogeneous/heterogeneous, catayst types, operation cycles,catalyst poisons
 * Flotation
 * Anaerobic fermentation of organic matter to methane
 * Aerobic fermentation of sugars
 * Fluidisation