IChemE journals

"To foster and develop the advancement of chemical engineering in all its branches" is the charter of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, which represents over 35,000 members worldwide.

To this end, IChemE publishes four peer-reviewed journals: Chemical Engineering Research and Design, Process Safety and Environmental Processing, Food and Bioproducts Processing and Education for Chemical Engineers.

The journals, which are also the official journals of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE), were first published as the Transactions of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in1923. Since then, they have seen continuous expansion, and today they represent well over 2,500 pages each year, of the latest research across the full spectrum of chemical engineering.

This collection of articles presents some of the best papers published in 2012 or 2013 across the four journals and selected by the editors, both for the importance of the research and the quality of the presentation.

We hope you will enjoy this flavour of the research published across the four journals.

List of Articles

Design guidelines for granular particles in a conical centrifugal filter
Chemical Engineering Research and Design, Volume 91, Issue 2, February 2013, Pages 348-360
A.F.M. Bizard, D.D. Symons, N.A. Fleck, G.C. Grimwood

The structured heat integrated distillation column
Chemical Engineering Research and Design, Volume 90, Issue 4, April 2012, Pages 458-470
O.S.L. Bruinsma, T. Krikken, J. Cot, M. Sarić, S.A. Tromp, Ž. Olujić, A.I. Stankiewicz

Good practice groundwork: Managing initial meetings with higher degree research students
Education for Chemical Engineers, Volume 7, Issue 4, December 2012, Pages e196-e202
Nicky Eshtiaghi, Shanthi Robertson, Georgia Warren-Myers

Process control: Domains, disciplines and cognitive difficulties
Education for Chemical Engineers, Volume 7, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages e1-e6
Saidas M. Ranade, Hector Salazar, Luis Andres Rodriguez

Surface heat and mass transfer coefficients for multiphase porous media transport models with rapid evaporation
Food and Bioproducts Processing, Volume 90, Issue 3, July 2012, Pages 475-490
Amit Halder, Ashim K. Datta

Microencapsulation of lycopene by spray drying: Characterization, stability and application of microcapsules
Food and Bioproducts Processing, Volume 90, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 37-42
Glaucia Aguiar Rocha, Carmen Sílvia Fávaro-Trindade, Carlos Raimundo Ferreira Grosso

Multi-objective optimization using MS Excel with an application to design of a falling-film evaporator system
Food and Bioproducts Processing, Volume 90, Issue 2, April 2012, Pages 123-134
S. Sharma, G.P. Rangaiah, K.S. Cheah

Production of bioethanol from waste money bills – A new cellulosic material for biofuels
Food and Bioproducts Processing, Volume 91, Issue 1, January 2013, Pages 60-65
Md. Mominul Islam Sheikh, Chul-Hwan Kim, Ji-Young Lee, Sung-Ho Kim, Gyeong-Chul Kim, Ji-Young Lee, Sung-Woong Shim, Jae-Won Kim

High-level techno-economic assessment of negative emissions technologies
Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Volume 90, Issue 6, November 2012, Pages 501-510
Niall McGlashan, Nilay Shah, Ben Caldecott, Mark Workman

Glycerine from biodiesel: The perfect diesel fuel
Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Volume 90, Issue 3, May 2012, Pages 180-188
John McNeil, Paul Day, Felix Sirovski

Anatomy of a domino accident: Roots, triggers and lessons learnt
Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Volume 90, Issue 5, September 2012, Pages 424-429
Bahman Abdolhamidzadeh, Che Rosmani Che Hassan, Mahar Diana Hamid, Sajjad FarrokhMehr, Naser Badri, Davood Rashtchian

Inherently safer reactors: Improved efficiency of 3-picoline N-oxidation in the temperature range 110–125 °C
Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Volume 90, Issue 5, September 2012, Pages 404-410
Alba Pineda-Solano, Lina Saenz-Noval, Subramanya Nayak, Simon Waldram, Maria Papadaki, M. Sam Mannan

Analyzing system safety and risks under uncertainty using a bow-tie diagram: An innovative approach
Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Volume 91, Issues 1–2, January–March 2013, Pages 1-18
Refaul Ferdous, Faisal Khan, Rehan Sadiq, Paul Amyotte, Brian Veitch

The IChemE Journals editorial team is delighted to announce the winners of the IChemE Journals 2012 Best Reviewers Award.

In 2012, the IChemE journals received over 1700 manuscripts involving over 1500 reviews. Reviewers graciously offer their outstanding expertise and professional services to support the Journals to maintain their high quality of accepted papers.

Based on both the quality and quantity of the reviews, the final winners were evaluated and selected by the Editorial Team:

The Editorial Team would like to extend its thanks to everybody who has submitted or reviewed an article for one of the IChemE Journals.

The IChemE Journals Team

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Special Issues Featuring Papers From ECCE9
Scheduled Publication: February 2014
Deadline for Paper Submissions: 31 July 2013. Please click here for details

Chemical Engineering Research and Design
Guest Editors: Professor Nieck Bienes and Dr Eva Sorensen

Process Safety and Environmental Protection
Guest Editor: Dr Eddy de Rademaeker

Education for Chemical Engineers
Guest Editor: Dr Martin Pitt

EFCE 60th Anniversary Special Issues
Chemical Engineering Research and Design
Guest Editors: Rafiqul Gani and Eva Sorensen
Scheduled Publication: November 2013

In 2013 EFCE celebrate their 60th anniversary. In honour of this occasion Chemical Engineering Research and Design will be publishing a special issue focusing on specific themes that the EFCE has been active in.

Authors have been invited to highlight the state of the art on specific topic as well as a perspective on the future directions. They will also detail some of their own specific new research results on the topic. It is expected that the special issue will become a very useful reference point for the selected topics.

The issue will cover a broad range of topics to include CAPE/PSE, Crystallisation, Distillation and Absorption, Mixing, Multiphase Flow, Reaction Engineering, Separations, Sustainability, Thermodynamics, and Bio, with some of the key researchers in these areas across Europe providing papers.

Authors who have confirmed that they will be submitting a paper include Jiri Klemes, Stratos Pistikopolous, Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern, Zoltan Nagy, Andrzej Gorak, Sigurd Skogestad, Vincent Gerbaud, Kai Sundmacher, Jerzy Baldyga, Daniele Marchisio, Asterios Gavriilidis, Jaap Shouten, Tapoi Salmi, Enrico Drioli, Michael Narodoslawsky, Georgios Kontogeorgis, Ioannis G. Economou, Romain Privat and John Woodley.

Green Processes And Eco-Technologies
Chemical Engineering Research and Design
Guest Editors: Catherine Xuereb, Martine Poux and Cedric Briens
Scheduled Publication: March 2014

This issue will include papers on conversion technologies or intensified processes to make effective use of raw materials and energy as well as papers dealing with processes developed to address solar energy needs.

Safety Issues For Carbon Capture And Storage
Process Safety and Environmental Protection
Guest Editors: Jill Wilday and Mike Bilio
Scheduled Publication: November 2013

This issue will cover safety issues at any point in the CCS chain of capture, transportation, injection and storage.

Advances In Bioseparations For Food And Bioprocessing
Food and Bioproducts Processing
Guest Editors: Marcel Ottens and Conan Fee
Scheduled Publication: January 2014

This special issue will publish papers on innovative approaches in bioseparation design and operation in the biopharmaceutical, industrial biotechnology and food areas.

Read online at www.sciencedirect.com or order print copies at http://webshop.elsevier.com/specialcontent

Special Issue on the 3rd European Process intensification Conference
Chemical Engineering Research and Design, Volume 90, Issue 6 (2012)

Negative emissions technology
Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Volume 90, Issue 6 (2012)

Special Issue Celebrating Trevor Kletz's 90th Birthday
Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Volume 90, Issue 5 (2012)

Special Issue on Energy from Waste
Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Volume 90, Issue 3 (2012)