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What is process engineering?
Process engineering focuses on designing, optimizing, and troubleshooting continuous or batch manufacturing flows — ensuring plants run safely, efficiently, and within quality specs.
Exam tip: keep SI units consistent end-to-end, write the governing relation symbolically before substituting, and sanity-check magnitude and sign.
Understand the concept
Process engineers develop PFDs and P&IDs, size pumps and valves, model heat integration, and support commissioning. They work closely with operations during shutdowns and debottlenecking projects.
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