Chemical Engineering Science

Chemical Engineering Science (commonly abbreviated as Chem. Eng. Sci.) is a peer-reviewed chemical engineering journal published by Elsevier, founded in October 1951 in London and issued semimonthly. One of the largest general research titles in chemical engineering, it publishes original work and authoritative reviews across reaction engineering, transport phenomena and process systems engineering.《化学工程科学》（Chemical Engineering Science，常用缩写为 Chem. Eng. Sci.）是由爱思唯尔出版的同行评审化学工程期刊，1951 年 10 月创刊于英国伦敦，现为半月刊。该刊是化学工程领域发行量最大的综合性研究刊物之一，刊载反应工程、传递现象与过程系统工程诸方向的原创研究与权威综述。

Scope

Chemical Engineering Science takes chemical engineering mechanisms as objects of study in their own right, requiring the models and regularities discussed to be generalizable rather than confined to empirical fitting for one apparatus or one family of materials. Its principal subject areas include:Chemical Engineering Science 的取稿立场是「以化工机理本身为研究对象」，要求论文讨论的模型与规律具备可推广性，而非局限于单一装置或单组物料的经验拟合。其收文范围覆盖的主要方向包括：

• Reaction engineering and catalysis: reaction kinetics and reactor modelling, heterogeneous catalysis with catalyst deactivation, and scale-up effects and safety control in multiphase reactors.反应工程与催化： 反应动力学与反应器建模、非均相催化与催化剂失活、多相反应器的尺度效应与安全控制。
• Transport phenomena: unified treatment of momentum, heat and mass transfer, boundary layers and interfacial mass transfer, and numerical characterisation of turbulence and mixing.传递现象： 动量、热量与质量传递的统一处理、边界层与界面传质、湍流与混合过程的数值刻画。
• Thermodynamics and phase equilibrium: prediction of thermodynamic properties, phase equilibrium with equations of state, and phase behaviour of electrolyte and complex systems.热力学与相平衡： 化工热力学性质推算、相平衡与状态方程、电解质与复杂体系的相行为。
• Separation processes: column hydraulics and mass transfer in distillation and absorption, membrane separation and adsorption, and mechanistic modelling of crystallisation and drying.分离过程： 精馏与吸收塔的水力学与传质、膜分离与吸附、结晶与干燥过程的机理建模。
• Process systems engineering: flow-sheet simulation and optimisation, scheduling and supply chains, process control and fault diagnosis, and uncertainty and flexibility analysis.过程系统工程： 流程模拟与优化、生产调度与供应链、过程控制与故障诊断、不确定性与柔性分析。
• Particle and multiscale methods: fluidisation and powder handling, coupled multiphysics simulation, and the complementary use of experimental characterisation with numerical methods.颗粒与多尺度方法： 流态化与粉体处理、多物理场耦合仿真、实验表征与数值方法的互补使用。

Research articles predominate, with short communications and invited reviews also accepted, and special issues assembled around individual themes. Methodological manuscripts carry separate expectations on length and supporting material, set out in the author guidance.本刊以研究论文为主，兼收短篇通讯与邀稿综述，并按专题出版专辑；方法学类稿件另有篇幅与支持材料的单独要求，具体口径见投稿说明。

History

• Founding (1951): the journal was launched by Pergamon Press in London in October 1951, among the first titles taken on by that newly independent house, and the first volume ran to six issues by December 1952, establishing the initial bimonthly rhythm.创刊（1951年）： 本刊于 1951 年 10 月由帕加蒙出版社在伦敦创办，是该社分立出来之后开办的首批刊物之一；第 1 卷至 1952 年 12 月出满六期，此即最初的双月刊节奏。
• Language policy: contributions appeared in English, French and German with a parallel French cover title in the early years, before publication settled on a single language.创刊语种： 创刊之初同时刊载英文、法文与德文稿件并配有法文并列刊名，其后逐步收敛为单一出版语言。
• Frequency: the publishing rhythm tightened progressively, from bimonthly at inception to monthly during the 1970s, about eighteen issues a year around 1991, and semimonthly at twenty-four issues a year from October 1993.刊期演变： 出版节奏由创刊时的双月刊逐步加密，二十世纪七十年代转为月刊，1991 年前后达到每年十八期，1993 年 10 月起定型为每年二十四期的半月刊。
• Publisher transition: Pergamon Press was later absorbed wholesale into Elsevier, which took over production and distribution of the title, while editorial authority remained with the academic community throughout.出版方更替： 创刊时的帕加蒙出版社后整体并入爱思唯尔集团，本刊的印制与发行随之转由后者承担，而编辑权始终由学界掌握。
• Companion title: a fully open-access sister title formerly absorbed work squeezed out by length limits姊妹刊： 本刊曾设完全开放获取的姊妹刊以分流篇幅受限的稿件，该姊妹刊于 2023 年停止出版，相关选题现已并入本刊。 it ceased publication in 2023 and its subject matter has since been folded into this journal.
• Metric trend: the impact factor rose year by year from 3.3 in 2017 to 5.1 in 2025, while the literature-based ranking moved the title from the second into the first tier of engineering technology.指标走势： 影响因子自 2017 年的 3.3 逐年上升至 2025 年的 5.1，同期文献计量分区由工程技术二类升列一类。

Editors

The title runs a large editorial board under an editor-in-chief, with executive editors handling initial screening and the pairing of manuscripts with referees, supported by an international advisory board drawn from more than twenty countries. Manuscripts are submitted electronically and the division of labour between editorial office and publisher is explicit at every stage. Neither the publisher nor the board publishes an acceptance rate or review duration for the title.本刊实行主编统筹下的大编委会制：执行编辑负责稿件初筛与外审配对，另设覆盖二十余个国家的国际顾问委员会；稿件经在线系统投递，编辑部与出版方的职责分工在流程上清晰可辨。出版方与编委会均未公布本刊的录用比例与审稿时长。

• Peter Victor Danckwerts (editor from the 1950s): a British chemical engineer and early editor of this journal who went on to hold the Shell professorship of chemical engineering at Cambridge, and whose work on first-order irreversible reactions and mass-transfer theory became canonical.彼得·维克多·丹克沃茨（二十世纪五十年代起任）： 英国化学工程学者，任本刊早期主编，后任剑桥大学化学工程希尔讲席教授，其在一级不可逆反应与传质理论方面的工作成为学科经典。
• The Danckwerts lecture: the journal maintains a lectureship named after that scholar, periodically inviting leading researchers to survey one process engineering field, and the resulting accounts now serve as records of the discipline's history.丹克沃茨讲席： 本刊设有以上述学者命名的讲座制度，定期邀一线研究者就某一过程工程方向作系统回顾，相关文稿已成为记录学科史的材料。
• Editorial composition: the editorial team numbers more than eighty members from over twenty countries, structured as a small executive core beneath a large advisory layer, with periodic rotation so that places do not harden.编委会构成： 编辑团队规模在八十人以上、来源国家逾二十个，呈「小执行核心 + 大顾问层」的双层结构，并定期轮换以免席位凝固。