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Research quality
It is difficult to judge the strategy of the unit, since it is mainly doing methodology-
oriented research. VLE (Vapour-Liquid Environment) is ongoing work and is 
providing original experimental data that are needed in applications of chemical 

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engineering. The other application fields investigated look more opportunity-driven 
(involving a lot of industrial contacts) than strategically thought out, even if the team 
takes care to conduct mainly methodological research.
The time spent on completing PhD theses used to be rather long, but has in recent 
years been reduced to satisfactory length.
The quality of the research is good. The publication output is at an appropriate 
level, and the articles are published in good chemical engineering journals.