ABSTRACT
Human scientific endeavor in the field of chemical engineering is witnessing drastic and dramatic challenges. Scientific vision, scientific cognizance, and deep scientific knowledge are all leading a long and effective way in the true emancipation of chemical process engineering, applied mathematics, and the world of engineering science. Energy sustainability and engineering science are today the two opposite sides of the visionary coin. Global water crisis, the depletion of fossil fuel resources, and the needs of energy sustainability are leading human civilization to a newer era of holistic sustainability. Technology and engineering today have few answers to the vicious problem of global water crisis and depletion of fossil fuel resources. Energy engineering, chemical process engineering, and environmental engineering science lie in the midst of deep scientific vision and scientific farsightedness. In this chapter, the author deeply targets the science of application of genetic algorithm in fluidization engineering and petroleum refining. Chemical process engineering is in the midst of immense scientific 236regeneration and vision. In this chapter, the author deeply comprehends the scientific success of the application of genetic algorithm in designing petroleum-refining units. The other avenues of research endeavor in this chapter are the vast scientific knowledge advancement in the field of fluidization and chemical process engineering. Fluidization engineering is the major pillar of scientific advancement and design of fluidized catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) in a petroleum refinery. The vision and the challenge of human scientific endeavor in petroleum engineering science and chemical engineering are immense and far-reaching. In this chapter, the author deeply elucidates on the need of evolutionary computation and genetic algorithm in designing petroleum-refining units. The scientific acuity and the scientific foresight of design of FCCU are deeply and lucidly explained in this chapter. The other visionary areas of research pursuit are the applications of composites in chemical engineering science. Composite science is in the state of newer scientific rejuvenation. This chapter also unfolds the vast scientific success, the scientific ingenuity, and the insight behind composite science.
