New IChemE journal
The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) launches a new journal, Digital Chemical Engineering, to provide a platform for publishing new interdisciplinary research across the domains of chemical engineering and digital sciences and technologies. The journal will be free to access and for the first year the author processing charge (APC) will be waived, highlighting a commitment to ensure maximum exposure for authors.
The emerging digital transformation in the chemical industry brings new challenges and opportunities and is fundamentally changing the way of future chemical engineering research, innovation, education and enterprise, according to IChemE. Published in partnership with Elsevier, the new journal seeks to extend the boundaries of traditional chemical engineering and welcomes papers at the interface between chemical engineering and digitalization-related disciplines.
In producing the journal, two editors-in-chief work together across the continents to provide a forum for researchers to disseminate results and exchange ideas. Professor Jin Xuan is the head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Loughborough University, UK and Professor Jinfeng Liu works in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada.
“Together with our authors, reviewers and editors, we are looking forward to developing this much needed new journal for the chemical engineering community,” says Xuan. “The digital transformation in the chemical engineering domain is offering immense opportunities for research, innovation and practice. We want Digital Chemical Engineering to become an inclusive platform to capture the emerging, exciting research during this great transformation.”
IChemE vice president Learned Society, Alexandra Meldrum says, “As a vibrant learned society, IChemE is keen to establish how digital technologies, as enabled by systems thinking, engineering and science, affect chemical engineering professionals. We are working to ensure members are aware of the impacts and prepared for change.”
Authors are encouraged to submit papers for review ahead of publication in the journal as well as for two special issues: Modelling, Control and Monitoring of Process Systems in the Era of Big Data and Machine Learning for Chemical Processes’
To view Digital Chemical Engineering, visit the journal’s homepage.