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process engineering

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noun

  1. the branch of engineering concerned with industrial processes, esp continuous ones, such as the production of petrochemicals

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Additionally, findings may have significant implications for industrial process engineering.

From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2024

One command center, with 16 screens, is known as Claire's Corner because it was designed by process engineering manager Claire Yarmak.

From Reuters • May 1, 2023

The bride’s father is a founder and the president of Integrated Flow Solutions, an industrial process engineering company in Houston.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2019

Guarino: When we have a new product, process engineering is key.

From Slate • Aug. 9, 2017

Efforts to increase productivity but reduce input and cost through process engineering and the use of transgenic methods, and classical breeding aimed at developing domesticated algal crop strains, will benefit both strategies.

From Nature • Aug. 15, 2012