中国化工行业的展望.pdf

Perspective Chemical Engineering in China: Past, Present and Future Yong Jin and Yi Cheng Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P.R. China DOI 10.1002/aic.12570 Published online February 3, 2011 in Wiley Online Library (). Keywords: chemical engineering, chemical industry, education, clean coal conversion, low-carbon technology Introduction opment in chemical engineering between China and the devel- oped countries. As one of the backbone industries that sup- The modern chemical industry experienced its genesis in ported the rapid growth of Chinese economy, the chemical the 19th century, and rapid development in the 20th, thereby industry in China and its related education and research activ- achieving significant impact on the progress of human civili- ities, for historical reasons underwent fast development only zation. The Solvay process in 1870s marked a milestone in in the past 30 years, compared to a century-long progress in the deployment of continuous processes with integrated the developed countries. At present, China has excellent plant-wide considerations, while the commercialization of opportunities for closing the gap with the rest of the world, the ammonia synthesis process in the 1920s marked the first but also faces immense sustainability challenges in terms of science-based landmark