Chemical engineers affect the production of almost every article manufactured on an industrial scale.

Some typical tasks include:

 Ensuring compliance with health, safety, and environmental regulations

 Conducting research into improved manufacturing processes

 Designing and planning equipment layout

 Incorporating safety procedures for working with dangerous chemicals

 Monitoring and optimizing the performance of production processes

 Estimating production costs

Specifically, chemical engineers improve food processing techniques, and methods of producing
fertilizers, to increase the quantity and quality of available food.

They also construct the synthetic fibers that make our clothes more comfortable and water resistant;
they develop methods to mass-produce drugs, making them more affordable; and they create safer,
more efficient methods of refining petroleum products, making energy and chemical sources more
productive and cost effective.

Your daily activities will be extremely diverse and largely depend on the role and the sector in which you
work.