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为应对原油涨价和全球变暖带来的危机,化学制品和能源工业正在新世纪中发生改变。随之而来的是大量工程上的挑战和投资机遇。预计在阴阳极材料以及车载蓄电池中的聚合电解液、风轮上的高性能聚合陶瓷合成材料、高效燃料的航空器、更轻巧和安全汽车等方面,将有快速的变革和发展。通过油砂、煤以及可能的油页岩液化来产生运输燃料,以及通过基因工程等方法利用植物光合作用生产高性能可生物降解聚合物和高附加值环保化学品,这些将为特有的工艺技术提供机遇。通过增加南半球海洋铁离子含量,加强其对二氧化碳吸收,从而缓解温室效应的可行性研究也正在开展。化学工程师由于在大宗运输、流体、混合物和成本计算等数学建模处理方面所拥有的得天独厚的优势,所以他们有可能同海洋研究者和海洋生物学家联手共同开发研究这一重要课题。
In response to rising crude prices and the crisis caused by global warming, chemicals and energy industries are changing in the new century. What followed was a host of engineering challenges and investment opportunities. It is expected that there will be rapid changes and developments in the cathode and anode materials, as well as the polyelectrolytes in automotive batteries, high-performance polymeric ceramic composites on wind wheels, efficient fuel aircraft, lighter and safer cars. Production of transportation fuels by liquefaction of oil sands, coal, and possibly oil shale, and the use of plant photosynthesis for the production of high performance biodegradable polymers and high value added environmentally friendly chemicals through methods such as genetic engineering will be unique process technologies Provide opportunities. Feasibility studies to mitigate the greenhouse effect by increasing the marine iron ion content in the southern hemisphere and enhancing its absorption of carbon dioxide are also under way. Because of their unique advantages in mathematical modeling such as bulk transportation, fluids, mixtures and costing, chemical engineers are likely to work jointly with oceanographers and marine biologists to develop this important topic.