About this guide
These pages were designed and written by Martin Peck, a post-graduate student at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Cambridge University. They are an entry in the Examplarchem internet based chemistry presentation competition, run by Chemsoc, the Royal Society of Chemistry's electronic network.
There are several guides to Chemical Engineering available on the internet, but few give actual details of what someone training to be a chemical engineer might learn. Furthermore, a little research indicated that friends studying chemistry had little idea of what chemical engineers do, other than “pipes”! The Chemsoc competition seemed a good opportunity to write something which might bridge this gap between chemists and chemical engineers.
Acknowledgements
Many thanks are owed to the following for their assistance: Brian Horrobin and Ben Earl of British Sugar, Catherine Aiken, Vanessa Blake, Sarah Forrest, Chris Harding, Dr Markus Kraft, Bruce Russell, Dr Andrew Somers and Dr Ian Wilson.
Technical information
These pages may be viewed in a range of browsers, including on text only displays, and conform to the HTML 4.01 specification. The content was written in XML and the web pages created by writing an XSL stylesheet.
The Java applet illustrating process control has been designed and written specifically for this guide. To run it your browser needs a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) installed - most browsers come with one, but if not, you can obtain one from http://java.sun.com. The applet has been tested on WindowsXP, and Windows98 with Internet Explorer version 6 (both Sun and Microsoft Java interpreters), Netscape version 6 and Netscape version 4.8. Although it has been written with the aim of remaining as portable as possible, it is conceivable that there may be a problem with it on your computer - please contact the author.
Martin Peck, October 2002
The background pictures
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