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This is a listing of articles under the purview of the Engineering Workgroup that have been designated as particularly relevant to the Chemical Engineering Subgroup.

•  Accidental release source terms: The mathematical equations that estimate the rate at which accidental releases of air pollutants into the atmosphere may occur at industrial facilities. ^[e]
•  Air pollutant concentrations: Methods for conversion of air pollutant concentrations. ^[e]
•  Air pollution dispersion modeling: Describes the basic mathematical simulation (i.e., modeling) of how buoyant air pollutants disperse in the atmosphere. ^[e]
•  Air pollution dispersion terminology: Describes and explains the words and technical terms that have a special meaning to workers in the field of air pollution dispersion modeling. ^[e]
•  Air Quality Modeling Group: A group within the U.S. EPA's Office of Air and Radiation that provides leadership and direction on the use of air quality models and air pollution dispersion models. ^[e]
•  Air Resources Laboratory: A group within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that develops climate models, air quality models and models for dispersion, transformation and removal of atmospheric pollutants. ^[e]
•  Amine gas treating: A process using aqueous solutions of amines to remove hydrogen sulphide (H₂S) and carbon dioxide (CO₂) from gases ^[e]
•  Ammonia production: The processes for the manufacture of hydrogen (H₂) and ammonia (NH₃₎. ^[e]
•  AP 42 Compilation of Air Pollutant Emission Factors: Description and discussion of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's publication AP 42 Compilation of Air Pollutant Emission Factors. ^[e]
•  API oil-water separator: A device for removing oil from industrial wastewaters. ^[e]
•  Aqueous Wastes from Petroleum and Petrochemical Plants: A book about the composition and treatment of the wastewater streams produced in the hydrocarbon processing industries (i.e., petroleum refineries, petrochemical plants and natural gas processing plants). ^[e]
•  Bar (unit): A unit of pressure measurement (symbol: bar) defined as 100,000 Pascals. ^[e]
•  Catalytic reforming: A catalytic chemical process that converts petroleum naphthas into high-octane gasoline components. ^[e]
•  Chemical engineering: a branch of engineering that uses chemistry, biology, physics, and math to solve problems involving fuel, drugs, food, and many other products ^[e]
•  Compressibility factor (gases): A thermodynamic property for modifying the ideal gas law to account for behavior of real gases. ^[e]
•  Delayed coking: A petroleum refining process that converts heavy residual oils into petroleum coke and other byproducts. ^[e]
•  Dissolved air flotation: A device for separating and removing suspended oil or solids from wastewaters. ^[e]
•  Distillation Design: A chemical engineering book that completely covers the design of industrial distillation columns. ^[e]
•  Environmental engineering: A field of engineering devoted to remediation of all forms of pollution. ^[e]
• United States Environmental Protection Agency: Add brief definition or description
•  Fenske equation: An equation for calculating the minimum number of theoretical plates needed to separate a binary feed stream by a fractionation column operated at total reflux (i.e., meaning that no overhead product is being withdrawn from the column). ^[e]
•  Flue gas desulfurization: The technology for removing sulfur dioxide from the flue gases resulting from the combustion of coal or fuel oil in power plant steam generators or other large combustion sources. ^[e]
•  Flue gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion: Discussion and listing of the comparative amounts of flue gas (exhaust gas) generated by the combustion of coal, fuel oil and natural gas. ^[e]
•  Flue gas stack: A vertical pipe, channel or chimney (also referred to as a smokestack) through which combustion product gases (flue gases) are exhausted to the atmosphere. Includes the draft (draught) effect of hot gases flowing through tall stacks (chimneys). ^[e]
•  Fluid catalytic cracking: A petroleum refining process that cracks the large hydrocarbon molecules in the portion of the petroleum crude oil boiling above 340 °C into lower boiling, more valuable high octane gasoline and olefinic gases. ^[e]
•  Fundamentals of Stack Gas Dispersion: The fourth edition of a book, first published in 1979, about the basic fundamentals of the dispersion modeling of continuous, buoyant air pollution plumes. ^[e]
•  Gas: One of the major states of matter (i.e., gas, liquid, solid and plasma). ^[e]
•  Henry's law: The relationship between the amount of gas dissolved in a liquid and the partial pressure of that gas above the liquid. ^[e]
•  Hydrocarbon dew point: The temperature (at a given pressure) at which the hydrocarbon components of any hydrocarbon-rich gas mixture (such as natural gas) will start to condense out of the gaseous phase. ^[e]
•  Hydrodesulfurization: A catalytic chemical process used in petroleum refining to remove sulphur compounds from intermediate and refined end-products. ^[e]
•  Ideal gas law: Relates pressure, volume and temperature for hypothetical gases of atoms or molecules with negligible intermolecular forces. ^[e]
•  Industrial cooling tower: Heat rejection systems used primarily to provide circulating cooling water in large industrial facilities. ^[e]
•  Joule-Thomson effect: Add brief definition or description
•  Large-scale trickle filters: Add brief definition or description
•  McCabe-Thiele method: Add brief definition or description
•  Merox: Add brief definition or description
•  Molar gas constant: Add brief definition or description
•  Molecular mass: Add brief definition or description
•  Mole (unit): Add brief definition or description
•  Natural gas processing: Add brief definition or description
•  Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook: Add brief definition or description
•  Petroleum naphtha: Add brief definition or description
•  Petroleum refining processes: Add brief definition or description
•  Reference conditions of gas temperature and pressure: Add brief definition or description
•  Relative volatility: Add brief definition or description
•  Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute: Add brief definition or description
•  Souders-Brown equation: Add brief definition or description
•  Surface condenser: Add brief definition or description
•  Temperature: Add brief definition or description
•  Transport Phenomena: Add brief definition or description
•  Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering: Add brief definition or description
•  Vacuum distillation: Add brief definition or description
•  Vapor-compression refrigeration: Add brief definition or description
•  Workbook of Atmospheric Dispersion Estimates: Add brief definition or description

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