As chemical engineering is an engineering field which is changing day by day I want to have a rough idea about the most talked about topics in the recent past.
Dear Danuja Samaranayake . There are many research topics in chemical engineering,what field do you mean? Do you mean mass transfer , heat transfer, thermodynamics, unit operation, reactor design , fluid flow, selection material,............?
Yes, I agree with Khalid, there are interesting research in each field.
Jobs where Chemical Eng. degree would be useful include:
Chemical engineer
Energy engineer
Nuclear engineer
Petroleum engineer
Product/process development scientist
Analytical chemist
Energy manager
Environmental engineer
Manufacturing engineer
Materials engineer
Mining engineer
Production manager
Quality manager
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In case you select sustainable development (related to what I research now). and like to join a private company or a international research institute,
then, I would say, product lifecycle assessments (LCA) related research.
In case you want to do Environmental engineering related work with Chemical Engineering Degree, then, Membrane bioreactor related wastewater treatment or membrane process related water treatment would be interesting.
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The trending research topics in the field of Chemical Engineering field is heat exchangers, nano fluid heat transfer, bio mass and fuel cell technology.
My Research Gate colleagues have given good "broad" suggestions.
My "small" humble suggestion is to concentrate a research upon a single method of producing an important material trying to achieve optimization of the chemical unit process(es) involved and/or the physical unit operation(s) that are required.
Optimization has been & will remain a "hot" topic.
Danuja Samaranayke, you have selected a very good excellent topic. This is a multidisciplinary, emerging and there is a mojor scope of work in this field.