Chemical engineering research and design

Chemical engineering research and design (ChERD) specialises in research with practical significance, extending the boundaries of traditional chemical engineering. ChERD brings together current techniques and new design ideas on all aspects of experimentation, development, and theory. We also publish special issues throughout the year, dedicated to key themes and conferences.

The journal is available in print and online format, and is reference-linked via CrossRef.

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Aims and scope

ChERD aims to be the principal international journal for publication of high quality, original papers in chemical engineering.

Papers showing how research results can be used in chemical engineering design, and accounts of experimental or theoretical research work bringing new perspectives to established principles, highlighting unsolved problems or indicating directions for future research, are particularly welcome. Contributions that deal with new developments in plant or processes and that can be given quantitative expression are encouraged. The journal is especially interested in papers that extend the boundaries of traditional chemical engineering.

The journal publishes regular special issues focusing on specific topics, and issues dedicated to selected papers from major conferences.

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Core topic areas

Distillation and absorption

• Hydrodynamics, heat and mass transfer in separation equipment
• Physical properties and thermodynamic models/methods
• Process design, operation and intensification
• Process equipment characterisation
• Process modelling, simulation and optimisation

Fluid flow

• All aspects of fluid flow in chemical and/or process vessels

Heat and mass transfer

• Mechanisms of heat and mass transfer
• Multicomponent mass transfer
• Simulation of heat and mass transfer processes
• Simultaneous heat and mass transfer

Materials processing and product development

• Fundamental properties of interest to processing of materials
• Injection moulding of materials
• In-line measurement and control of material processes
• Morphological development processes
• Pre-processing, shaping, multi-layering and finishing of final product form
• Product design based on chemical engineering tools
• Structure-function relationships in products and relevant systems
• Tailoring chemical products and materials for end-use applications

Oil and natural gas production

• Economics of upstream oil and gas development
• Facilities
• Oil and gas transport
• Well and reservoir oil, gas and water flow behaviour
• Well treatments and fracturing

Particle technology

• Crystallisation and precipitation
• Design of particulate systems and processes
• Formation and synthesis of particulates
• Kinetics of particulate processes
• Measurement and characterisation of particulate systems
• Processing, handling and storage of powders and dispersions
• Product formulation and rheology

Pharmaceutical engineering 

• Design, modelling, operation and control of pharmaceutical (bio)reactors, unit operators and process systems used in the production of (bio)pharmaceuticals.
• Application of process analytical technology in pharmaceutical product and process design and characterisation.
• Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic modelling
• Design, characterisation and modelling of drug delivery systems.

Process systems engineering

• Information modelling and analysis
• Process design and integration
• Process modelling, simulation and optimization
• Process operations and control
• Techno-economic analysis

Reaction engineering

• Catalysis engineering
• Process intensification
• Reaction kinetics
• Reactive flows
• Reactor development, modelling and scale-up

Separation processes

• Adsorption science and technology
• Green processes
• Intensification and integration of separation processes
• Molecular separation: membranes, chromatography
• Phase separation: clarification, flocculation, microfiltration
• Reactive separation processes: hybrid and novel separation techniques
• Separation by phase change

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Dispatch dates

Recently mailed issues 

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Special issue schedule

ChERD regularly publishes special issues, featuring papers on topics identified as being topical, emerging and fast-moving.

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Editorial board

Honorary editor:

Professor John Perkins
MASDAR Institute of Science and Technology, UAE
Email: jperkins@mist.ac.ae

Executive editor:

Professor Stephen Richardson
Imperial College London, UK
Email: s.m.richardson@imperial.ac.uk

Editor-in-chief:

Dr Eva Sørensen
University College London, UK
Email: e.sorensen@ucl.ac.uk

Distillation and absorption

Professor Nikolai Kulov
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Email: kulov@igic.ras.ru

Professor Ryszard Pohorecki
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Email: pohorecki@ichip.pw.edu.pl

Fluid Flow

Professor Barry Azzopardi
University of Nottingham, UK
Email: Barry.Azzopardi@nottingham.ac.uk

Professor Jiri Drahoš
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
Email: drahos@icpf.cas.cz

Professor J. B. Joshi
University of Mumbai, India
Email: jbj@udct.org

Professor Paul Mavros
Aristotle University, Greece
Email: pmavros@chem.auth.gr

Professor Catherine Xuereb
ENSIACET, Toulouse, France
Email: catherine.xuereb@ensiacet.fr

Heat and Mass Transfer

Professor Xiao Dong Chen
Monash University, Australia
Email: dong.chen@eng.monash.edu.au

Professor Krishna Nigam
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Email: nigamkdp@gmail.com

Professor Zdzislaw Pakowski
Technical University of Lódz, Poland
Email: pakowski@wipos.p.lodz.pl

Dr Zhifa Sun
University of Otago, New Zealand
Email: zhifa@physics.otago.ac.nz

Materials processing and product development

Professor Kim Dam-Johansen
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Email: kdj@kt.dtu.dk

Professor Críspulo Gallegos
Universidad de Huelva, Spain
Email: cgallego@uhu.es

Dr Kieran Looney
DuPont Teijin Films UK Ltd, UK
Email: Kieran.Looney@GBR.dupont.com

Dr Geoff Moggridge
University of Cambridge, UK
Email: GDM14@cus.cam.ac.uk

Oil and natural gas production

Dr Arne Fredheim
Statoil, Norway
Email: aof@statoil.com

Professor Geoff Maitland
Inperial College London, UK
Email: g.maitland@imperial.ac.uk

Professor Bahman Tohidi
Heriot-Watt University, UK
Email: bahman.tohidi@pet.hw.ac.uk

Particle technology

Professor John Dodds
École des Mines d'Albi, France
Email: dodds@enstimac.fr

Professor Mojtaba Ghadiri
University of Leeds, UK
Email: m.ghadiri@leeds.ac.uk

Professor Pierre Guigon
Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France
Email: pierre.guigon@utc.fr

Professor Alan Jones
University College London, UK
Email: a.jones@ucl.ac.uk

Professor Massimo Poletto
University of Salerno, Italy
Email: mpoletto@unisa.it

Professor Richard Williams
University of Leeds, UK
Email: r.a.williams@leeds.ac.uk

Pharmaceutical engineering

Dr Zoltan Nagy
Loughborough University, UK
Email: z.k.nagy@lboro.ac.uk

Professor Ka Ming Ng
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Email: kekmng@ust.ht

Dr Lanry Yung Lin Yue
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Email: cheyly@nus.edu.sg

Process systems engineering

Professor Giancarlo Baldi
Politechnico di Torino, Italy
Email: gbaldi@athena.polito.it

Professor Michael Doherty
University of California, USA
Email: mfd@engineering.ucsb.edu

Professor Zdravko Kravanja
University of Maribor, Slovenia
Email: zdravko.kravanja@uni-mb.si

Professor Julian Morris
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Email: julian.morris@ncl.ac.uk

Professor Michael Piovoso
Penn State University, USA
Email: mjp5@psu.edu

Professor Nilay Shah
Imperial College London, UK
Email: n.shah@ic.ac.uk

Professor Günter Wozny
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Email: Guenter.Wozny@TU-Berlin.de

Reaction engineering

Professor Asterios Gavriilidis
University College London, UK
Email: a.gavriilidis@ucl.ac.uk

Professor Mooson Kwauk
Academia Sinica, People's Republic of China
Email: mooson@home.ipe.ac.cn

Dr François Lapicque
CNRS-ENSIC, Nancy, France
Email: lapicque@ensic.inpl-nancy.fr

Professor Thierry Meyer
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Email: thierry.meyer@epfl.ch

Separation processes

Professor José Coca
University of Oviedo, Spain
Email: jcp@uniovi.es

Professor Alan Hatton
Massachussetts Institute of Technology, USA
Email: tahatton@pet.hw.ac.uk

Professor Andrew Livingston
Imperial College London, UK
Email: a.livingston@imperial.ac.uk

Dr Masaru Nakaiwa
National Institute of Advanced Insutrial Science and Technology, Japan,
Email: nakaiwa-m@aist.go.jp

Professor Marianne Nyström
Lappeenranta University, Finland
Email: marianne.nystrom@lut.fi

Professor Geoff Stevens
University of Melbourne, Australia
Email: gstevens@unimelb.edu.au

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• International readership
• Peer review policy ensures high standards
• Respected editors drawn from academia and industry worldwide
• Rapid publication guaranteed
• Wide dissemination via CrossRef's online community
• Authors receive individual attention, from submission to publication
• Quality reproduction
• No page charges
• Online version available to subscribers
• Authors receive a pdf of the published version of their paper
• Published papers qualify for nomination for IChemE's publications awards

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Referees play an essential role in maintaining the high quality of material published in IChemE's journals.

Further information

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Medals for best publication

IChemE's annual medals and awards programme recognises excellence in chemical engineering practice and outstanding contributions to the Institution or the wider community.

The medals awarded in the publications area are:

• Senior Moulton Medal - for the best paper published by IChemE
• Junior Moulton Medal - for the best paper authored by an IChemE member aged under 31 at the time of submission
• Hanson Medal - for the best article published in tce
• Hutchison Medal - for the most catalytic or thought-provoking paper published by IChemE
• Brennan Medal - for the best book published by IChemE

Medal winners are recommended by the Publications Medals Board.

Information on the full range of awards made by IChemE, and lists of winners, can be found on the medals home page.

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Abstracting

ChERD is indexed and abstracted in:

• ANTE-Abstracts in New Technologies and Engineering (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
• Chemical Abstracts (Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS))
• Current Contents Search (ISI - Thomson Scientific)
• Engineering Information Database (including Compendex and Paperchem) (Elsevier)
• Engineering Information Database EnCompass LIT (Elsevier)
• GEO Abstracts (including Fluidex)(Elsevier)
• INSPEC (INSPEC - IEE)
• PASCAL (INIST-CNRS)
• SciSearch (ISI - Thomson Scientific)

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Journal archive

The online journal archive is fully searchable by volume and author, and by keyword across the full text of every article.

The archive covers the following years:

Chemical engineering research and design 1923 – 1996
Process safety and environmental protection 1990 – 1996
Food and bioproducts processing 1991 – 1996

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