Chemical Engineering combines physical sciences with engineering. As a disclipline, chemical engineering draws on the theories of mass and heat transfer, reaction kinetics, and thermodynamics as the basis for developing various unit operations. These unit operations, which include distillation, membrane separation, hydraulics, and catalysis, to name a few, are then applied to the design, operation and optimization of devices and plants for a wide variety of industrial processes.

Like chemical engineering, industrial chemistry involves the development and optimization of various industrial processes. But the focus of industrial chemistry is the fundamental chemistry of such processes.

Chemical Engineering/Industrial Chemistry

USP 5,457,246     USP 5,452,586     USP 5,296,624     USP 5,258,534    

Materials Science/Polymers

USP 6,313,219     USP 5,965,202     USP 5,787,747     USP 5,739,180    

Analytical

USP 6,570,158     USP 6,563,117     USP 5,938,932     USP 5,442,950
USP 5,405,513

US-2002-0182111-A1    

Laboratory Automation/Drug Delivery

USP 6,742,549     USP 6,733,252     USP 6,694,197     USP 6,644,364
USP 6,524,531     USP 6,444,033     USP 6,410,342     USP 6,394,306
USP 6,365,412     USP 6,116,297     USP 5,988,869

PCT WO 01/82013     PCT WO 01/82013