Chemical process

The rest of the article will cover the engineering type of chemical processes.

These amounts can be scaled up or down to suit the desired capacity or operation of a particular chemical plant built for such a process.

Chemical processes like distillation and crystallization go back to alchemy in Alexandria, Egypt.

In addition to chemical plants for producing chemicals, chemical processes with similar technology and equipment are also used in oil refining and other refineries, natural gas processing, polymer and pharmaceutical manufacturing, food processing, and water and wastewater treatment.

Together with unit operations it forms the main principle of the varied chemical industries.