Editorial: Special Issue of 8th World Congress of Chemical Engineering (WCCE 8) Symposium on Process Design

The 8th World Congress of Chemical Engineering (WCCE 8) Symposium on Process Design, held on August 23-27, 2009 in Montreal, Canada, offered a unique opportunity to focus on a comprehensive participation and learning experience over the full range and diversity of methods in the broad fields of process modeling and their use for design, simulation, optimization and control of chemical processes. The major themes of the symposium are categorized into the following themes of the congress: Energy Green Processing New Materials Biotechnology Authors of selected papers accepted for presentation in the Process Design symposium were invited to submit the full papers to be considered for publication in the journal of Chemical Product and Process Modeling (The papers that successfully passed the reviewing process of the journal are now published in the WCCE8 special issue of the journal.