Chemical industry
The chemical industry changes raw materials (oil, natural gas, air, water, metals, and minerals) into more than 70,000 different products. Some chemical companies produce plastics as well as chemicals. Most chemical products are not sold to the public, but are used to produce other things.
The chemical industry employs many people including chemical engineers, chemists and laboratory technicians.
The chemical industry really started with the Industrial Revolution. The first big factory was built in Prestonpans, Scotland, in 1749, to make sulfuric acid.[1]
Chemical Industry Media
Oil refinery in Louisiana - an example of chemical industry
Charles Tennant's St. Rollox Chemical Works in 1831, then the biggest chemical enterprise in the world.
Ernest Solvay, patented an improved industrial method for the manufacture of soda ash.
The factories of the German firm BASF, in 1866.
New polypropylene plant PP3 in the Slovnaft oil refinery (Bratislava, Slovakia)
This is a process diagram of a turbine generator. Engineers working to produce a sustainable process for use in the chemical industry need to know how to design a sustainable process in which the system can withstand or manipulate process-halting conditions such as heat, friction, pressure, emissions, and contaminants.
A double effect distillation plant.
References
- ↑ "Sulfuric acid: Pumping up the volume". pubsapp.acs.org. Retrieved 2023-05-14.