


The other 75 units are presented in five thematic groups:

  1. Industrial processes
  2. Materials and applications
  3. Basic chemicals
  4. Polymers
  5. Metals

In this section several of the processes covered are concerned with the manufacture of some of the fundamental basic chemicals, known as petrochemicals. These include units on distillation and the processes following the distillation of oil into fractions, for example cracking and reforming. Other units include a review of the role of catalysts in the chemical industry.

Overhanging everything that the modern chemical industry does is its effect on the environment, in terms of energy and material use and the waste it produces. Thus other units are devoted to recycling and Green chemistry.

In this section on processes, there are units on: