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Applications of Chemical Engineering in Biology

Bent Sarup^{* *}Correspondence: Bent Sarup, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, Email:

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Description

The field of engineering known as "chemical engineering" focuses on methods for boosting production as well as the management and construction of chemical facilities. Chemical engineers design industrial processes that are affordable to turn raw materials into useable products. For the efficient use, production, design, transportation, and transformation of energy and materials, chemical engineering applies the principles of chemistry, physics, mathematics, biology, and economics. Chemical engineers can work on everything from large-scale industrial processes that transform chemicals, raw materials, live cells, microbes, and energy into useful forms and products to using nanotechnology and nanomaterial’s in the lab.

In addition to safety and hazard assessments, process design and analysis, modelling, control engineering, chemical reaction engineering, nuclear engineering, biological engineering, construction specifications, and operating instructions, chemical engineers are involved in numerous other angles of plant operation and design. Chemical engineering focuses on developing and producing products through chemical processes. This requires creating tools, frameworks, and norms for processing chemicals, combining, compounding, and refining basic materials. Chemical engineers design industrial processes that are affordable to turn raw materials into usable products.

Applications

Careers in chemical engineering frequently concentrate on specialized fields like crystals, polymers, or oil. The concepts of biology and engineering techniques are combined by biological and biomedical engineers to create new materials and products like prosthetics, tissue-engineered organs, biopharmaceuticals, and bioenergy. Living cells are structured, capable of selfreplication, self-adjustment, evolution, and receptive to external stimuli. An acceptable dynamic model is the only engineering alternative to coherently, consistently, and systematically Insilco portray the cell metabolism with the objective of investigating the cell response to various perturbations. Modeling metabolic cell responses and processes is not a new endeavor.

By applying engineering principles of systems design to biology, synthetic biology and system biology aim to produce predictable and robust biological systems with novel functions in a wide range of applications, such as the treatment of diseases, development of new biotechnological processes, creation of new cell-to-cell communicators, devices based on biosensors, et cetera. Some of these applications, such the one for modelling the regulation of gene expression, have been created.

Advanced lumping procedures and modularization techniques have been used to obtain reduced models by lumping species and/or reactions while maintaining the primary cell functions and the structural, functional, and temporal hierarchy. This is due to the nearly astronomical complexity of cellular processes. Chemical engineers "create efficient ways of utilizing resources, including energy." In a large-scale, industrial context, chemical engineers employ chemistry and engineering to transform raw materials into usable products, such as pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, and polymers. They are also engaged in research and waste management. Computers could be heavily used in both the applied and research aspects.

Chemical engineers may work in business or academic research, where they are tasked with planning and carrying out experiments using scaled-up chemical reactions to develop more effective and secure manufacturing, pollution-control, and resource-conservation techniques. As a project engineer, they might be involved in planning and building factories. As project engineers, chemical engineers utilize their expertise to choose the might be involved in planning and building factories. As project engineers, chemical engineers utilize their expertise to choose the best production techniques and plant machinery in order to save costs and maximize safety and profitability. Chemical engineering project managers may take on full-time or consultancy responsibilities in equipment upgrades, troubleshooting, and dayto- day operations following the building of a facility.