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Unit One Basic Knowledge of Chemical Engineering 1
Lesson One Chemical Composition 1
Lesson Two Chemical Reaction Stoichiometry 5
Lesson Three Balances on Reactive Processes 9
Reading Materials: Catalyst 13
科技英语翻译一 科技英语的特点 15
Unit Two Chemical Unit Operation 19
Lesson Four Glossary of the Chemical Process Terms 19
Lesson Five Distillation 24
Reading Material: Fluid Flow Phenomena 29
科技英语翻译二 翻译的标准和翻译的过程 31
Unit Three Chemical Equipment 34
Lesson Six Heat Exchangers 34
Lesson Seven Ideal Batch Reactor 38
Reading Material: Drying Equipment 41
科技英语翻译三 翻译的一般方法 44
Unit Four Inorganic Chemical Engineering 48
Lesson Eight Ammonia Synthesis 48
Lesson Nine Sulfuric Acid 53
Reading Material: Sodium Carbonate 56
科技英语翻译四 词性转换法 59
Unit Five Organic Chemical Engineering 62
Lesson Ten Methanol Synthesis 62
Lesson Eleven Production of Phenol 66
Reading Material: Development of Organic Synthesis 71
科技英语翻译五 增词省词译法 73
Unit Six Petroleum Chemical Engineering 76
Lesson Twelve Cracking 76
Lesson Thirteen Catalytic Reforming 80
Reading Material: Crude Oil 84
科技英语翻译六 名词性从句的翻译方法 86
Unit Seven Macromolecular Material 89
Lesson Fourteen Polymerizations by Chain Reactions 89
Lesson Fifteen Polyethylene 94
Reading Material: History of Plastics 98
科技英语翻译七 定语从句的翻译方法 100
Unit Eight Fine Chemical Engineering 103
Lesson Sixteen Surfactant 103
Lesson Seventeen Detergent Formulation 107
Reading Material: Production of Anionic Surfactants 111
科技英语翻译八 状语从句的翻译方法 (一) 113
Unit Nine Coal Chemical Engineering 116
Lesson Eighteen Coal Liquefaction 116
Lesson Nineteen Coal Gasification 120
Reading Material: Coal 124
科技英语翻译九 状语从句的翻译方法 (二) 126
Unit Ten Green Chemical Engineering 129
Lesson Twenty Green Chemistry 129
Lesson Twenty-one Waste Minimization and Solvent Recovery 133
Lesson Twenty-two Low-Carbon Economy and Cleaner Energy 137
Reading Material: Greenhouse Gases 140
科技英语翻译十 被动语态的翻译方法 142
Vocabulary (词汇表) 145
参考文献 161