ChE 101

• The Chemical Engineering Law of 2004 (RA 9297) is an act regulating the practice of chemical engineering and repealing for this purpose republic act numbered three hundred and eighteen (RA 318), otherwise known as "The Chemical Engineering Law".
• The policy of the Chemical Engineering Law of 2004 (RA 9297) is to supervise and regulate the practice of chemical engineering, vital to national development.
• The policy of the Chemical Engineering Law of 2004 (RA 9297) is to upgrade chemical engineering education, ensuring that the country's chemical engineers are at par with the best in the world.
• The policy of the Chemical Engineering Law of 2004 (RA 9297) is to reserve the practice of the chemical engineering profession to the Filipino citizen.
• Practice of chemical engineering is offering professional chemical engineering service for a fee, salary, reward or compensation, paid directly or through another person, even without such reward or compensation.
• Industrial plant is any plant in which unit processes and/or unit operations are involved, including pollution control and abatement operations and processes.
• Unit process involves chemical change in the manufacture of industrial and consumer product and treatment of industrial and chemical waste.
• Unit operation is a physical operation by which a desired step in an industrial process is conducted or controlled.
• Professional Chemical Engineering subjects include ChE Thermodynamics, ChE Calculations, Physical and Chemical Principles, Industrial Processes, Momentum, Heat, and Mass Transfer, Industrial Waste Management and Control, Process Equipment Design and Plant Design, Bio-chemical Engineering and Bio Engineering, and Chemical Engineering.
• A person is considered a Professional Chemical Engineer if they are duly registered and a holder of a valid certificate of registration and Professional Identification Card issued by the Board of Chemical Engineers and by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC).
• The scope of practice of a Professional Chemical Engineer includes offering professional chemical engineering service in relation to industrial plants, including consultation, investigation, valuation, planning, designing, and preparation of specifications for or estimates of industrial plants or undertaking the supervision of construction, installation, alteration, or operating industrial plants.
• Teaching, lecturing, or reviewing of a professional chemical engineering subject in the curriculum of the Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering degree or a subject in the Chemical Engineering Licensure Examination given in any school, university, or any other educational institute is considered a professional chemical engineering service.
• Momentum transfer involves the transport of liquids from the storage tank to the reactor or from one unit to another.
• The choice of the material of construction of the pipe is a crucial aspect of momentum transfer.
• Design of stirrers in reactors is a part of momentum transfer.
• Heat transfer is the reduction of cost of running the plant and can decide whether a profit or loss is made in the operation.
• Heat recovery is a part of heat transfer.
• Mass transfer involves the concentration gradient or the difference in partial pressures.
• Thermodynamics involves equilibrium compositions of the two phases arising in a separation process and maximum efficiency that is possible in a particular process when equilibrium is achieved.
• Chemical reaction engineering involves concepts of thermodynamics and physical chemistry to design a reactor and determine the volume of a given reactor and predict its performance.
• The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) regulates and supervises the practice of the professionals who constitute the highly skilled manpower of the country.
• The PRC was previously called the Office of the Boards of Examiners created by Republic Act No. 546 on June 17, 1950, under the Civil Service Commission (CSC).
• The PRC was first created as a national government agency by Presidential Decree (P.D.) No. 223 dated June 22, 1973, signed by then President Ferdinand E. Marcos.
• The PRC became operational on January 4, 1974 with the assumption into office of the first set of appointed Commissioners and Associate Commissioners.
• The PRC was placed under the Office of the President for general supervision and coordination.
• The Implementing Rules and Regulations of P.D. No. 223 was promulgated on December 9, 1974.
• Under P.D. No. 223, professional regulation was standardized for the thirty-three (33) professions then under the PRC.
• The PRC started issuing certificates of registration in Filipino with English translation.
• Computerization of the database of registered professionals started with the assistance of the National Computer Center.
• The PRC started issuance of computer-printed registration cards with one-year validity.
• The PRC conferred the first "Outstanding Professional of the Year" awards.
• The PRC developed the Test Questions Databank System.
• Executive Order No. 200 was issued institutionalizing partial computerization for all licensure examinations.
• The Chemical Engineering Board is under the administrative control and supervision of the Professional Regulation Commission.
• The Chemical Engineering Board is composed of a chairman and two other members who are appointed by the President of the Philippines from among those recommended by the Commission from the nominees of the duly integrated and accredited national organization of Chemical Engineers.
• To be a member of the Chemical Engineering Board, one must be a naturally born Filipino citizen and resident of the Philippines.
• A member of the Chemical Engineering Board must hold a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering degree conferred by a reputable and legally constituted college, institution, or university.
• A member of the Chemical Engineering Board must be a registered chemical engineer in active practice for at least 10 years.
• A member of the Chemical Engineering Board must be a member of good standing of the integrated and duly accredited national chemical engineering profession.
• A member of the Chemical Engineering Board must not be a member of the faculty of any school, college, university where regular course in chemical engineering or review classes in preparation for Licensure Examination are being offered or conducted, nor have pecuniary interest in such institutions.