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Research and education
The research field is at the borderline of the scope of this chemistry evaluation, since 
the research done by this team clearly belongs to mainstream chemical engineering, 
not to the field of chemistry.
In educating engineers in the field of process industries, a good education in 
chemical engineering is a necessity. Such an education has to be based on a research 
team in the field of chemical engineering. This relatively small chemical engineering 
unit fills this position, and thus provides an important educational activity.
The research topics tackled are quite diverse, even if the methodology underlying 
the many different research directions is quite coherent. The subjects range from the 
measurement and modelling of thermodynamic vapour-liquid equilibria to the 
fundamental investigation of trickle-bed reactors, gas-liquid stirred tank reactors, 
adsorption processes, microdistillation, chlorine dioxide bleaching of pulp, and the 
modelling of pulping.