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>>8192364
>chemical kinetics
>chemical thermodynamics

yes, these are the most important.

how the fuck do you not consider that chemistry lol

I have a process engineering job for plant management of (arguably) the largest biofuel producer in the nation. My SME is water quality, cooling towers, boilers and reverse osmosis and microfiltration for the plants.

literally everything to do with water quality is chemistry
>boiler treatments: polymeric non-heavy metal antiscalent / corrosion prevention
>boiler return line treatment: combination amine CO2 scrubbing chemicals to prevent carboxylic acid formation and pH change in boiler return lines (pH causes corrosion in standard steel lines)
>sodium hypo chlorite in combination with bacterial / organic biodispersants
>reverse osmosis units handling ion chemistry, dealing with water and ion management between permeate and reject

and there's fuck loads more
>distillation columns
literally chemical thermodynamic equilibrium, dealing with azeotropes (water ethanol)

>molecular sieves / selective adsorption: using 3 angstrom ceramic zeolite to selectively adsorb water to surpass the ethanol:water azeotrope and make 200 proof booze for fuel grade

like, I'm just confused how you even begin to consider that this isn't applied chemistry. thats literally, EXACTLY what it is!

Do you have a weird definition of chemistry? Like, if its not research in a lab about some super niche, super advanced brand new technology / chemical / drug / etc then its not chemistry?

Don't get me wrong, chemistry is a valuable thing and I would never imply that chemical engineering is exactly = chemistry, but there is WAAAAAAAAAAAYYYY more than enough over lap to call it "chemical engineering"