South African Journal of Chemical Engineering

South African Journal of Chemical Engineering is a fully open-access journal published by Elsevier on behalf of the South African Institution of Chemical Engineers, founded in 1989 and covering all branches of chemical engineering with particular attention to resource-rich developing economies, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 6.3.《南非化学工程杂志》（South African Journal of Chemical Engineering）由爱思唯尔（Elsevier）代表南非化学工程师学会出版，1989 年创刊，覆盖化学工程各分支并特别关注资源丰富的发展中经济体，2025 年影响因子为 6.3。

Scope

• Environmental process engineering is a core area, covering the treatment and handling of wastes and pollutants, pollution abatement, environmental process control, cleaner technologies, waste minimisation and water treatment.环境过程工程是核心领域，涵盖废物与污染物的处理与处置、污染治理、环境过程控制、清洁技术、废物减量以及水处理。
• Reaction engineering covers reactor modelling and simulation, transport phenomena within reacting systems, fluidisation technology and reactor design.反应工程涵盖反应器的建模与模拟、反应体系内的传递现象、流化技术以及反应器设计。
• Separation technologies, both classical and novel, form a further pillar of the journal's remit.经典分离技术与新型分离技术共同构成本刊的另一个支柱方向。
• Process and materials synthesis includes novel routes to materials or processes, among them nanotechnology and ceramics.过程与材料合成包括材料或过程的新合成路线，其中涵盖纳米技术与陶瓷。
• Metallurgical process engineering and coal technology are covered, with emphasis on minerals beneficiation and coal processing.冶金过程工程与煤化工技术亦在范围内，重点为矿物加工与煤炭转化。
• Process safety, thermodynamics, energy research, food engineering, bioprocess engineering and sustainability fall under the journal's general chemical engineering heading.过程安全、热力学、能源研究、食品工程、生物过程工程与可持续性，均归入本刊的通用化学工程范畴。
• Chemical engineering education is explicitly in scope, including guides to good practice, novel approaches to learning and education beyond university.化学工程教育明确属于收稿范围，包括良好实践指南、新型学习方法以及大学之外的教育。

History

• The journal was founded in 1989 by the South African Institution of Chemical Engineers, and its early volumes were printed and circulated in South Africa.本刊由南非化学工程师学会于 1989 年创办，早期卷次在南非印刷与发行。
• Publication lapsed after 2003, when volume 15 closed, and no issues appeared for the following eight years as local engineers turned to international journals.2003 年第 15 卷出版后本刊停刊，此后八年未有新卷问世，本地工程师转而投向国际期刊。
• It was relaunched in 2011 as an online open-access journal, with Milan Carsky as editor-in-chief from that restart onwards.本刊于 2011 年以在线开放获取形式复刊，Milan Carsky 自复刊起担任主编。^[1]
• A 2014 partnership between SAIChE and IChemE brought the title into the Institution of Chemical Engineers' portfolio, and since 2016 it has been published by Elsevier, beginning with volume 21.南非化学工程师学会与化学工程师学会于 2014 年建立合作，本刊由此进入化学工程师学会（IChemE）的期刊群，自 2016 年第 21 卷起改由爱思唯尔（Elsevier）出版。
• It now appears in four volumes a year under continuous publication, charges an article publishing charge of 1350 US dollars, reports a 39 percent acceptance rate and 132 days from submission to acceptance.本刊现每年出版 4 卷并采用连续出版，文章处理费为 1350 美元，公布录用率 39%，投稿到录用平均 132 天。
• The 2025 impact factor is 6.3, placing it in Q1 of chemical engineering (43 of 183) in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, with a CiteScore of 10.4.2025 年影响因子为 6.3，在（Emerging Sources Citation Index）的化学工程类别中位列 Q1（43/183），CiteScore 为 10.4。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is Milan Carsky, a professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban.主编为 Milan Carsky，系德班夸祖鲁-纳塔尔大学教授。
• It is published on behalf of the South African Institution of Chemical Engineers, which became the South African arm of the Institution of Chemical Engineers.本刊代表南非化学工程师学会出版，该学会后成为化学工程师学会（IChemE）在南非的分支机构。
• Manuscripts undergo single anonymised review, normally with at least two independent reviewers, and the editors take the final decision.稿件采用单向匿名评审，通常至少由两位独立审稿人评议，最终由编辑作出决定。
• Research articles and review articles dominate each issue, and special issues with guest editors follow the same review procedure under the responsible editor.研究论文与综述构成各期主体，由客座编辑主持的专刊也须在责任编辑监督下走同一评审流程。
• Because the journal serves a voluntary professional association it does not solicit papers, and its editors and reviewers are not paid for their work.由于本刊服务于一个志愿性专业学会，它不主动约稿，编辑与审稿人的工作亦无报酬。
• As a fully open-access title, every accepted paper is free to read on ScienceDirect as soon as it is published, with costs met by the article publishing charge.作为完全开放获取期刊，每篇录用论文一经上线即可在（ScienceDirect）免费阅读，成本由文章处理费承担。