What is Chemical Engineering? | Job Descriptions of a Chemical Engineer

Chemical Engineering:

Chemical Engineering is the branch of Engineering which uses the principles of various subjects like Chemistry, Applied Mathematics, Applied Physics, Economics and many other fields to make useful products. It is the oldest and broadest branch of Engineering as it uses the major principles of Chemistry which is also the oldest branch of Science.

Jobs Descriptions of a Chemical Engineer:

While choosing Chemical Engineering as a field, a question usually comes to mind that what do Chemical Engineers do? So, here is your answer, I hope after reading this article your mind will get rid of this question and you will know What a Chemical Engineer does.

1. Mostly the work of a chemical engineer is to design an equipment which is used in an industry for example if an industry requires a reactor then; what should be its dimensions? How long the reactor should be? What should be its shape? For how much time reactants should stay in the reactor? All these parameters are in the mind of a Chemical Engineer while designing a reactor or any other equipment.
2. Second major work of a Chemical Engineer is to operate the Industry. It is one of the major jobs of a Chemical Engineer. Handling the unit operations and unit processes in an industry is not an easy task, one should be technical and present mind to do this. So this job is done by a Chemical Engineer because who can be more suitable for this job. A professional Chemical Engineer knows all the data values and working functions of operators running in an industry, so when there will be a problem in the functioning of any equipment Chemical Engineer can smell it easily (I mean judge it) and solve it.
3. Discovering new processes and new types of equipment is one of the major jobs of a Chemical Engineer. New processes are discovered to lessen the cost of production of different products or to enhance their quality. Similarly, new and better types of equipment are designed for the Industries to increase the production rate and also to save time for the maximum production. Chemical Engineers do research in this field and try to make a most effective tool for the industrial Operation.
4. Environmental Pollution is one of the major problems nowadays. Traffic in every region of the world is increasing day by day causing air pollution to increase at a great ratio, Industrial smoke is polluting the air, Burning of different fuels for different purposes increasing pollution. That is not good for humankind but all these things are also necessary to be used because it is difficult to live without them as they are making our lives easy and comfortable. Now, what to do? So don't worry, It is not you to take worries because Chemical Engineers and Environmental Engineers are for this job. They are researching and developing new methods to reduce this pollution to the lowest rate as much as possible. They are making efforts to provide you a healthy and safe environment so you can use all these facilities without having any dangerous disease. Chemical Engineers are trying to make a fuel which expels the lowest amount of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and other dangerous gases.
5. It is Chemical Engineers job to find a fault or defect in a chemical process equipment. For example, if a distillation column is working in an oil refinery and it is not performing its work properly not separating two components which are its function then Chemical Engineer will figure out what is the problem and he will solve this problem including a mechanical engineer.
6. To minimize energy consumption, waste productions, and time consumption of a process a Chemical Engineer show his/her skills in the field.

So this was the brief introduction of jobs that a Chemical Engineers perform in the field. Hope that you got some idea what a Chemical Engineer do all the day.