Chemical engineering factory level

In a commodity chemical plant, chemical engineers have recognized for nearly a century how issues of chemistry and transport arise at length scales ranging from the factory level down to the molecular level. Such issues also pervade microelectronic fabrication as described in the following sections. 

Since 1995, the Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Department of the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain has been working on the application of membrane technology to the treatment of low and medium level radioactive liquid wastes. In this chapter, we describe two practical cases of radioactive liquid waste treatment using membrane processes the treatment of Cs-contaminated water generated after a radioactive incident in a stainless steel production factory, and the treatment of 1 liquid wastes from nuclear medicine services at hospitals. 

Borman, Stu. Protein Factory Reveals Its Secrets. Chemical if Engineering News 85 (February 19, 2007) 13-16. This is an accessible discussion of the structural biology of the ribosome at the atomic level. 

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