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本書是為完成大學英語基礎學習的化學工程與工藝及相關專業學生精心編寫的一本專業英語教材，旨在架起基礎英語與專業領域之間的橋樑，全面培養學生的專業英語應用能力。全書分為四個有機聯繫的部分：
第一部分「化學工業概述」從宏觀視角切入，概述化學工業的全貌，包括其研發活動、化學工程師的典型職責以及化學品的來源，為學生構建完整的行業認知框架。
第二部分「化學工藝概述」深入介紹了幾類至關重要的基礎化學品的生產工藝，如氯鹼、氨與尿素、石油加工及聚合物等，使學生熟悉特定領域的核心技術辭彙與工藝描述。
第三部分「化學工程概述」作為全書核心，系統闡述了化學工程的基礎學科，包括熱力學、傳遞現象、反應工程及各類單元操作，著力培養學生理解和表達化工過程和原理的能力。
第四部分「21世紀化學工程前沿」聚焦21世紀化工學科的新範式與現代發展，涵蓋了現代聚合物科學、碳捕集與封存、人工智慧在化工中的應用以及生物系統的傳遞現象等，拓寬學生的國際視野，緊跟科技發展潮流。
本書各單元配有核心辭彙解釋及閱讀理解的針對性練習。通過系統學習，學生不僅能掌握大量專業術語，了解化學工程與工藝專業的知識結構，更能了解化工學科的研究前沿，全面提升閱讀技術文獻、撰寫專業報告及進行國際學術交流的能力。 本書適用於高等院校化學工程與工藝專業的專業英語課程，也可作為相關領域科研人員和技術工程師提升專業英語水平的自學參考書。
目錄
PART 1 CHEMICAL PROCESS INDUSTRY
Unit 1 Chemical Industry
Reading Material 1: Evolution of Chemical Industry
Unit 2 Research and Development
Reading Material 2: The Anatomy of a Chemical Manufacturing Process
Unit 3 Typical Activities of Chemical Engineers
Reading Material 3: Excel in Your Engineering
Unit 4 Sources of Chemicals
Reading Material 4: Organic Chemicals from Oil, Natural Gas and Coal
PART2 CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGIES
Unit 5 Basic Chemicals
Reading Material 5: Major Sectors of the Chemical Industry
Unit 6 Chlor-Alkali and Related Processes
Reading Material 6: Sulphuric Acid
Unit 7 Ammonia, Nitric Acid and Urea
Reading Material 7: Haber-Bosch Process
Unit 8 Petroleum Processing
Reading Material 8: Coal-Conversion Processes
Unit 9 Polymers
Reading Material 9: Polymerization Techniques
PART 3 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Unit 10 What Is Chemical Engineering?
Reading Material 10: Curriculum of Chemical Engineering
Unit 11 Chemical and Process Thermodynamics
Reading Material 11: Heat Transfer
Unit 12 What Do We Mean by Transport Phenomena?
Reading Material 12: Fluid-Flow Phenomena
Unit 13 Unit Operations in Chemical Engineering
Reading Material 13:
Unit 14 Distillation
Reading Material 14: Plate Columns and Packed Columns
Unit 15 Solvent Extraction, Leaching and Adsorption
Reading Material 15: Ion Exchange
Unit 16 Evaporation, Crystallization, and Drying
Reading Material 16: Separation Processes
Unit 17 Chemical Reaction Engineering
Reading Material 17: Reactor Technology
PART 4 FRONTIERS OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING IN 21st CENTURY
Unit 18 Paradigm Shift in Chemical Engineering
Reading Material 18: Molecular Structure and Property: Product Engineering
Reading Material 19: An Overview of Process Intensification
Unit 19 Frontiers in Polymer Science
Reading Material 20: Machine Learning, Emerging Trends in Polymer Science
Reading Material 21: Upcycling Commodity Polymers
Unit 20 Scaling Direct Air Carbon Capture
Reading Material 22: A Roadmap for Achieving Scalable, Safe, and Low-Cost Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage
Reading Material 23: Priority Initiatives for Gigaton Deployment of Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage
Unit 21 AI for Chemical Engineering
Reading Material 24: Data-Driven Molecular Design and Simulation in Modern Chemical Engineering
Reading Material 25: Combining Theory and Experiment in Electrocatalysis: Insights into Materials Design
Unit 22 Transport Phenomena in Biological Systems
Reading Material 26: Drug Delivery Systems
Reading Material 27: Transport in Biological Systems: Some Unique Aspects
APPENDIXES
Appendix 1 化學化工常用構詞
Appendix 2 常見有機基因
Appendix 3 有機化合物命名法
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