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Process Engineering
Process engineering is an interdisciplinary science, which combines other specialist areas such as biology, chemistry, physics and mechanical engineering and includes the conversion of materials. Process engineering thus defines technical processes in which products are created from educts by the use of chemical-physical or biological processes.
The educts of a processing process can themselves be the product of previous processing, and the product can be further processed. Such interlinking is referred to as a production composite.
Process engineering seeks to optimise the processes with the given framework conditions. In contrast with other natural sciences, however, process engineering does not seek to reveal a new relationship, but rather to make a known relationship technical usable.
Process engineering is broken down into many sub-disciplines which are listed below by way of example:
- bioprocess engineering
- chemical engineering
- chemical process engineering
- interface process engineering
- mechanical process engineering
- textile process engineering
- thermal process engineering
- environmental technology
