{"title":"Issue Highlights","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/cjce.25333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cjce.25333","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9400,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering","volume":"103 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144551219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Issue Highlights","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/cjce.25331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cjce.25331","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9400,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering","volume":"103 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144190912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Human flaws and logical tools in engineering","authors":"André C. R. Martins","doi":"10.1002/cjce.25764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cjce.25764","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper explores the limitations of human cognition, especially in engineering research, emphasizing the need for mathematical models and methods to guide decision-making and theory validation. While human cognition excels in certain tasks, it is prone to biases that can distort our understanding. Applications of complex systems to engineering are often approximations of reality rather than exact truths. The concept of emergence is examined to illustrate how macroscopic behaviours in systems may not be easily reducible to their microscopic components, highlighting the importance of both reductionist and holistic approaches. The trade-offs between simple and complex models in solving real-world problems are discussed in the context of the limitations of models in capturing the full complexity of the real systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":9400,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering","volume":"103 8","pages":"3512-3520"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/cjce.25764","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144551284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conversations in Chemical Engineering","authors":"João B. P. Soares","doi":"10.1002/cjce.25766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cjce.25766","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9400,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering","volume":"103 8","pages":"3510-3511"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144551283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"2025 winner of the Lectureship Award","authors":"Cao Thang Dinh","doi":"10.1002/cjce.25765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cjce.25765","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9400,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering","volume":"103 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144551282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"2025 winner of the Best Graduate Student Paper Award","authors":"Masoud Haeri Nejad","doi":"10.1002/cjce.25753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cjce.25753","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9400,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering","volume":"103 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144551199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Issue Highlights","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/cjce.25329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cjce.25329","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9400,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering","volume":"103 6","pages":"2439"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143919795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preface: Special series on the pathways to a circular economy of plastics","authors":"Dimitrios Meimaroglou","doi":"10.1002/cjce.25729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cjce.25729","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9400,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering","volume":"103 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144191262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Viviane de Oliveira Campos, Felipe Fernandes Barbosa, Ellen Kadja Lima de Morais, Dulce Maria Araújo Melo, Jildimara de Jesus Santana, Gregory S. Patience
{"title":"Experimental methods in chemical engineering: Electron probe micro-analysis—EPMA","authors":"Viviane de Oliveira Campos, Felipe Fernandes Barbosa, Ellen Kadja Lima de Morais, Dulce Maria Araújo Melo, Jildimara de Jesus Santana, Gregory S. Patience","doi":"10.1002/cjce.25712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cjce.25712","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) is a non-destructive spectroscopic technique to map the chemical composition—quantitative elemental distribution and layer thickness—with a micro-scale resolution. An electron beam illuminates the surface of a sample and produces backscattered electrons (BSE), secondary electrons (SE), characteristic X-rays, and light known as cathodoluminescence (CL). Combining energy dispersive spectrometry with wavelength-dispersive spectrometry improves trace analysis and differentiates overlapping X-ray lines, but the detection threshold is not much better than 100 ppm (parts per million). Implementing Monte Carlo simulation with better electronics and software are ongoing research areas to improve the method's precision, sensitivity, and spatial resolution. To detect Li, Be, and B (<span></span><math>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>Z</mi>\u0000 <mo><</mo>\u0000 </mrow></math> 11) requires wavelength-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (WDS), or soft X-ray emission spectroscopy (SXES), or a combination of BSE/EDS method. Researchers in metallurgy & metallurgical engineering, mineralogy, geochemistry & geophysics, and mining & mineral processing apply the method most. Chemical engineering is ranked 21st among the 250 scientific categories that use the technique. It is also applied to reconstitute works of art and the antiquities. A bibliometric map identified four clusters of research and for each cluster the major nodes were: (1) geochemistry, (2) mechanical properties, microstructure, and alloys, (3) Fe, Cu, and Cr, and (4) phase equilibria.</p>","PeriodicalId":9400,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering","volume":"103 7","pages":"3000-3011"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/cjce.25712","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144191140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biorecycling of polylactide: From enzymatic depolymerization to biotransformation of released products","authors":"Alaric Catard, Isabelle Chevalot, Sandrine Hoppe","doi":"10.1002/cjce.25717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cjce.25717","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Polylactic acid (PLA) is a polymer that can replace several petroleum-based polymers due to its properties and bio-sourced nature. However, sustainable recycling processes of PLA avoiding the creation of waste and enabling it to be used as a raw material must be implemented. Enzymatic hydrolysis seems to be a promising way to recycle PLA. The different approaches that have led to the discovery of new PLA depolymerizing enzymes are reviewed here. Moreover, an overview of the various factors affecting enzymatic depolymerization of PLA have been done as well as the contribution of enzyme engineering in understanding the essential residues of these enzymes and improving their properties (e.g., thermostability and activity). Finally, enzymatic polymerization and biosynthesis of PLA from lactide or lactic acid have been reviewed to provide an overview of the various biotechnological approaches that could enable PLA to be completely recycled and remade.</p>","PeriodicalId":9400,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering","volume":"103 7","pages":"2969-2999"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144191139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}