what is a chemical engineer's job?

Question

how do chemical engineers work? do they test what they've created themselves? does this job require testing on animals?

Answer 1

in petrochemical plants they decide what type metal or plastic or piping considerations it takes for containers and pressure rating of mediums. they also have to know about interactions of chemicals and saftey related issues that have to be dealt with in the process conrtrol systems. Testing on animals? You must be thinking of chemical warfare or something else?

Answer 2

This one is a bit hard to answer. I am a chemical engineer - I have been in industry for 13 years now after getting my B.S. When I originally interviewed, companies who were hiring chemical engineers included:
- Merck & Roche & AstraZeneca (pharamaceuticals) - so you could make drugs for a living
- AMP (now Tyco Electronics) - you could be a process engineer on a manufacturing line - involving chemicals or plastics
- BP America - you could get into the petroleum industry
- DuPont & Hercules - make chemicals for a living
- I worked at Dana Corp - I was a materials engineer working in their Failure Analysis lab.
- I currently work in a technology industry specifically with cleaning chemicals (still process engineering).
- Did an internship with W.L. Gore - working with Gore-Tex fabrics, though others did things like filters and medical devices.
- A friend of mine went and worked for Texas Instruments - so again, a technology company - making semiconductors and such.
- Rohm & Haas (have they been bought out)? - chemicals
- Proctor & Gamble - making products you use everyday like detergents, make-up and shampoos.

So there are a lot of industries you could go into. For me, my path was as a process engineer. I work on manufacturing lines making sure the quality of the product is good, troubleshooting the line when there is a problem, making it faster or produce less scrap, etc. I also deal directly with Asia sites and have nightly conference calls because frankly, that's where volume manufacturing often is.

If you were a PhD chemical engineer, you'd probably be more into things like creating things (R&D). You'd prove feasibility and then someone else would probably take your idea and put it on the manufacturing floor. I like to say there needs to be thinkers and doers. I'm a doer and the PhD's are usually the thinkers.

As far as testing on animals, it depends on where you work! I've never worked with an animal in my life.

Answer 3

Tere used to be only steel, wood and a few other stuff. After plastic was found though, it came with infinetely many derivatives of it, each differring from one another in texture, melting point etc. Thanks to chemistry engineers we have billions of molecules; splenda, paints, dyes, plastics and everything Thank you CE's Thank You USA
But some cosmetics section of that industry might be testing them on animals.

Answer 4

chemical engineer job is an formulation and preparation ofchemical fluid.and measure and design the chemical preparation of samples

different types of preparation fluid