DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A UNIT

OPERATION AND A UNIT

PROCESS
By: Crystal Alamar
Chemical engineering is that branch
of engineering concerned with the
development and application of
manufacturing processes in which
chemical or certain physical changes
of materials are involved.
In an inexact but expressive manner we may
define chemical engineering in its modern sense
by the following equation:
Chemical engineering = unit processes + unit operations
(chemical changes) (physical changes)
 The unit process is a very useful concept for
technical chemical change and has been
described1 as the commercialization of a
chemical reaction under such conditions as to
be economically profitable.

 The unit operation is a physical change

connected with the industrial handling of
chemicals or allied materials; it frequently is tied
in with the unit process as when heat flows into
an endothermic chemical reaction or out of an
exothermic reaction.
TYPES OF UNIT OPERATION INVOLVE IN A
CHEMICAL PROCESS INDUSTRIES
Types of Unit Operation involve in a chemical process
industries

FIVE CLASSES
■ Fluid Flow Processes
■ Heat Transfer Processes
■ Mass Transfer Processes
■ Thermodynamic Processes
■ Mechanical Processes
Types of Unit Operation involve in a
chemical process industries

MORE THAN ONE CLASS

■ Combination
■ Separation
■ Reaction