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Call for papers/Topics
Full Articles/ Reviews/ Shorts Papers/ Abstracts are welcomed in the following research fields:
Part 1: Independent Core Topics & Subtopics
1. Chemical Engineering
Focuses on converting raw materials into valuable chemical products safely, efficiently, and at scale.
Thermodynamics & Transport Phenomena: Chemical thermodynamics, phase equilibria, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and mass transfer.
Reaction Engineering & Kinetics: Chemical kinetics, homogeneous/heterogeneous catalysis, reactor design (batch, CSTR, PFR), and surface science.
Separation Processes: Distillation, liquid-liquid extraction, crystallization, membrane separations, and absorption/adsorption.
Process Systems Engineering: Process design and synthesis, process control, optimization, process safety, and techno-economic analysis (TEA).
Materials Science & Polymer Engineering: Macromolecular chemistry, soft matter, nanomaterials, surface functionalization, and rheology.
2. Biological Engineering (Bioprocess & Biomolecular Engineering)
Applies engineering principles to biological organisms, systems, and molecular processes.
Bioprocess & Bioreactor Engineering: Fermentation technology, upstream/downstream bioprocessing, cell culture engineering, scale-up dynamics, and cell separation/purification.
Metabolic Engineering & Synthetic Biology: Pathway optimization, gene editing, metabolic flux analysis, genetic circuit design, and strain engineering.
Biomolecular Engineering: Protein engineering, enzyme kinetics, directed evolution, macromolecular interactions, and bioinformatics.
Biomedical & Tissue Engineering: Biomaterials, drug delivery systems, regenerative medicine, tissue scaffolds, cellular biomechanics, and microfluidic "organs-on-a-chip."
3. Environmental Engineering
Focuses on assessing, mitigating, and reversing anthropogenic impacts on air, water, soil, and public health.
Water & Wastewater Treatment: Physicochemical treatment, biological wastewater treatment, advanced oxidation processes, desalination, and stormwater management.
Air Pollution Control: Particulate and gaseous emission control, atmospheric chemistry, dispersion modeling, greenhouse gas mitigation, and indoor air quality.
Solid & Hazardous Waste Management: Landfill design, hazardous waste stabilization, waste minimization, sludge treatment, and contaminated site remediation.
Environmental Fluid Mechanics & Hydrology: Contaminant transport in groundwater, surface water modeling, soil dynamics, and atmospheric boundary layers.
Eco-Risk Assessment & Environmental Health: Environmental toxicology, fate and transport modeling, exposure assessment, and environmental epidemiology.
Part 2: Interrelated Topics & Cross-Disciplinary Fields
Where these three traditional pillars intersect, some of the most active modern research and industrial fields emerge.
Intersecting Chemical & Biological Engineering (Biochemical Engineering)
Leveraging chemical principles to process biological substances or using biological catalysts for chemical synthesis.
Biocatalysis & Green Synthesis: Replacing heavy-metal catalysts with enzymes for industrial fine chemical synthesis.
Bioplastics & Renewable Polymers: Manufacturing biodegradable polymers (like PLA or PHA) via bacterial fermentation.
Pharmaceutical & Biopharmaceutical Production: Scale-up manufacturing of monoclonal antibodies, vaccines, cellular therapies, and small-molecule drugs.
Biosensors & Bio-instrumentation: Integrating chemical sensing surfaces with biological recognition elements for diagnostics.
Intersecting Chemical & Environmental Engineering (Green Chemical Engineering)
Preventing pollution at the source through chemical innovation and novel processing methods.
Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage (CCUS): Direct air capture (DAC), solvent-based amine scrubbing, catalytic conversion of $\text{CO}_2$ to fuels/chemicals, and mineral carbonation.
Circular Economy & Waste Valorization: Chemical recycling of plastics, electronic waste (e-waste) hydrometallurgy, and industrial ecology (symbiosis).
Green Solvents & Reaction Media: Supercritical fluid processing, ionic liquids, deep eutectic solvents, and solvent-free reactions.
Sustainable Energy Technologies: Fuel cell engineering, advanced battery chemistry, green hydrogen production (electrolysis), and solar thermal chemical processes.
Intersecting Biological & Environmental Engineering (Environmental Biotechnology)
Using biological systems and living organisms to monitor, remediate, or restore environmental ecosystems.
Bioremediation & Phytoremediation: Biostimulation and bioaugmentation of contaminated soils/groundwater using microbes or plants to degrade heavy metals, hydrocarbons, or PFAS.
Bioenergy & Biofuels: Production of bio-methane via anaerobic digestion, cellulosics-to-ethanol pathways, and microalgal cultivation for aviation bio-jet fuel.
Microbial Ecology of Treatment Systems: Microbiome dynamics in activated sludge, biofilters, membrane bioreactors (MBR), and constructed wetlands.
Environmental DNA (eDNA) & Bio-monitoring: Genomic techniques to track biodiversity, invasive species, or pathogen persistence in natural ecosystems.
The Triadic Nexus: Chemical + Biological + Environmental Engineering
Integrated systems that draw simultaneously from all three domains.
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) & Sustainable System Design: Quantifying cradle-to-grave environmental impacts of biological and chemical production processes.
Water-Energy-Food-Environment Nexus: Engineering closed-loop agriculture, nutrient recovery (phosphorus and nitrogen from wastewater), and sustainable fertilizer synthesis.
Synthetic Biology for Planetary Health: Engineered microbes designed specifically to consume environmental microplastics, capture atmospheric carbon, or sense pollution in real time.