Call for papers/Topics

Full Articles/ Reviews/ Shorts Papers/ Abstracts are welcomed in the following research fields:

Foundational & Independent Topics

These topics represent the core engineering principles, physical laws, and foundational mechanisms unique to each individual discipline.

1. Chemical Engineering Fundamentals

The study of transforming raw materials into valuable chemical products on an industrial scale.

• Transport Phenomena: Momentum transport (fluid mechanics), energy transport (heat transfer), and mass transport (diffusion and convective mass transfer).

• Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics: Phase equilibria, chemical reaction equilibria, equations of state, and thermodynamic cycles.

• Chemical Reaction Engineering: Kinetics of chemical reactions, design of ideal reactors (batch, CSTR, PFR), and catalyst deactivation.

• Separation Processes: Unit operations including distillation, liquid-liquid extraction, absorption, adsorption, and membrane separation.

• Process Dynamics and Control: Feedback and feedforward control loops, tuning of PID controllers, and chemical process simulation.

2. Biological Engineering Core

The application of engineering principles to biological systems, organisms, and cellular processes.

• Bioprocess and Fermentation Technology: Kinetics of microbial growth, bioreactor design, scale-up strategies, and sterilization processes.

• Downstream Processing: Separation and purification of biomolecules via centrifugation, filtration, chromatography, and lyophilization.

• Enzyme Engineering and Biocatalysis: Enzyme kinetics (Michaelis-Menten mechanics), immobilization techniques, and industrial applications of biocatalysts.

• Cellular and Tissue Engineering: Biomaterials selection, scaffold design, cellular mechanotransduction, and stem cell differentiation.

• Metabolic Engineering: Pathway modification, flux balance analysis, and the synthesis of value-added products in genetically engineered hosts.

3. Environmental Engineering Principles

The engineering discipline dedicated to protecting human health and ecosystems from environmental degradation.

• Water and Wastewater Treatment: Physical, chemical, and biological unit processes including sedimentation, coagulation, activated sludge, and anaerobic digestion.

• Air Pollution Control: Designing systems for particulate matter removal (cyclones, electrostatic precipitators) and gaseous pollutant control (scrubbers, biofiltration).

• Solid and Hazardous Waste Management: Landfill design, leachate management, incineration, and the handling, treatment, and disposal of toxic industrial waste.

• Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering: Surface water hydrology, groundwater flow modeling, contaminant transport in porous media, and stormwater management.

• Environmental Chemistry and Microbiology: Chemical kinetics in natural waters, pollutant biodegradation pathways, and microbial ecology in engineered systems.

Interrelated & Integrated Topics

These fields represent the major overlapping areas where the three disciplines converge to solve complex industrial, sustainability, and healthcare challenges.

1. Biochemical and Biomedical Production

The direct intersection where chemical engineering principles are applied to biological systems for industrial manufacturing.

• Pharmaceutical and Vaccine Manufacturing: Scaled-up production of small-molecule drugs, monoclonal antibodies, and mRNA vaccines using chemical unit operations.

• Synthetic Biology and Metabolic Flux Analysis: Using chemical engineering mass balances to model and optimize genetic pathways in living factories.

• Bioplastics and Biomaterials Synthesis: Engineering biodegradable polymers (like PLA and PHA) through a combination of chemical polymerization and biological fermentation.

2. Environmental Biotechnology and Bioremediation

The convergence of biological and environmental engineering to clean up pollutants using living organisms.

• In-Situ and Ex-Situ Bioremediation: Utilizing specialized microbes or plants (phytoremediation) to degrade hazardous chemical spills in soil and groundwater.

• Bioenergy and Biofuels Production: Converting biological waste into energy carriers via anaerobic digestion (biogas) or chemical transesterification (biodiesel).

• Industrial Wastewater Bioprocesses: Using structured microbial communities, such as membrane bioreactors (MBRs), to extract heavy metals and organic compounds from industrial effluent.

3. Green Chemical Engineering and Sustainable Design

The integration of chemical engineering with environmental protection to minimize waste at the source.

• The 12 Principles of Green Chemistry in Engineering: Designing chemical processes that reduce toxicity, maximize atom economy, and utilize renewable feedstocks.

• Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): Quantifying the cradle-to-grave environmental footprint of chemical manufacturing processes and materials.

• Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS): Developing chemical absorption, adsorption, and biological systems to capture and repurpose carbon dioxide emissions.

4. Circular Economy and Industrial Ecology

The ultimate convergence of all three fields, modeling industrial manufacturing loops after natural, zero-waste ecosystems.

• Waste-to-Wealth Technologies: Upcycling municipal and industrial waste streams into chemical feedstocks, fertilizers, and building materials.

• Industrial Symbiosis: Designing industrial parks where the waste or byproduct of a chemical plant serves as the raw material or energy source for a biological or environmental facility.

• Sustainable Resource Recovery: Advanced chemical and biological extraction techniques to recover rare earth elements and nutrients (like phosphorus and nitrogen) from wastewater and electronic waste