Dear Colleagues,

The Mediterranean Congress of Chemical Engineering (MeCCE) is a triennial event that has been taking place in Barcelona since 1978 in the framework of the trade fair EXPOQUIMIA. The event gathers at the premises of Fira de Barcelona chemical engineers from the academy and the industry visiting the industrial exhibition, presenting and sharing new ideas, and networking.

After the parenthesis of the 10th World Congress of Chemical Engineering (held also in Barcelona in 2017), the Spanish Society of Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (SEQUI), the Catalan Association of Industrial Engineers (AEIC), and the Chemical Institute of Sarrià (Institut Químic de Sarrià, IQS) established an alliance to undertake the organization of this 14th edition, aimed at renovation and further internationalization.

However, 2020 will be undoubtedly remembered because of the way COVID-19 altered our lives and the way of working worldwide, including also MeCCE and EXPOQUIMIA, which had to be re-scheduled and re-designed. In these circumstances, the very basic concept of “congress” faced new threats and opportunities, and the way we face most of the specific Congress topics, such as biomedical engineering, supply chain management or training and education, was also significantly affected. All these issues were inevitably part of the 14th MeCCE.

This Special Issue is coordinated with the 14th MeCCE Scientific Committee, and it includes selected papers from this conference. This Special Issue focuses on, but is not limited to, papers that align with the topics of the conference:

Advances and results in chemical engineering science:

• Chemical reactors and separation technologies;
• Processes intensification and process systems engineering;

their applications in:

• sustainable development and environmental engineering;
• food, biochemical and biomedical engineering;
• process and product engineering;

and the provision of Chemical Engineering solutions to the society by responsible research, innovation and introduction of new developments, products, and processes to the market.

Dr. Moisès Graells
Prof. Dr. Rosa Nomen
Dr. Raquel Ibáñez
Prof. Dr. Antonio Espuña Camarasa
Guest Editors

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• Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
• unit operations
• reaction engineering
• process systems engineering
• process intensification
• process control
• process safety
• training
• innovation