The difference between a chemical engineer, a graduate of the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, and a chemist, a graduate of the Faculty of Science

The chemist graduated from the Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry, studying chemistry alongside other sciences such as physics and others. Their role and work is centered within chemical and research laboratories to conduct chemical and research experiments that give results on how to obtain a product from conducting these reactions.

Their work is coursed to the laboratory in small quantities and reactions that take place through simple laboratory tools.

The chemist's goal and job is to study and understand the way in which the chemical reaction takes place and how to obtain the best productivity from the reaction. He explains the type of reaction and the best components through which the best product can be obtained.

The chemical engineer graduated from the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering. His role is focused on the industrial side and converting raw materials into a product with high quality and appropriate cost. His work does not depend on chemical reactions and laboratory experiments inside the laboratory, but his vision and role are greater than that, which is how to convert a chemical reaction taking place on the laboratory scale into a complete industry consisting of several successive processes to convert raw materials into a product that competes in the markets and achieves profit and is also exported abroad.

The chemical engineer studies how to design reactors in which reactions occur that convert raw materials into products.

 He studies how to control chemical reactors and industrial processes.

 He studies how to make a profit from industry.

 He studies how to achieve occupational safety and security for workers inside the factory.

 He studies how to conduct quality tests on the product before displaying it in the markets and competing with it.

 The chemical engineer can, through his studies, work in more than one specialty inside the factory.

 He may be an operations engineer inside the factory.

 Or an occupational safety and security engineer, or specialize in the field of quality to work as a quality engineer.

 The chemical engineer develops the appropriate work plan inside the factory.

 He is also called an operating engineer or an implementation engineer.

 This is, in brief, the big difference between a chemical engineer and a chemist.