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Trends in biotechnology through publications in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Quarterly journal

Chemical engineering as a new engineering and science field developed during and after the Second World War, and has had a major impact on global technology and economy. Its development has been greatly accelerated with use of computers, mathematical software, and later internet. Success of the new field was followed with intensive publication activity of university level textbooks, engineering manuals, various data books and numerous scientific and professional journals. This trend has been followed in Croatia by journal Kemija u industriji (Chemistry in industry) which was devoted to transfer needed specific knowledge from international journals to engineers in Croatian language and also report on development and results of chemical engineers in industry and academia in Croatia. Some 40 years ago, at that time young, several chemical engineers from University of Zagreb returned from their doctoral studies from USA and together with their colleagues from Austria, Italy and Slovenia initiated publication in Zagreb a new international journal Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Quarterly (CABEQ) with aim to follow the major trend which started in american departments and present in publications and also begin to develop in Europe. At that time CABEQ was one of few european journals with content in the two seemingly, at that time, unrelated fields. From the very first issue CABEQ was covered in Chemical Abstract, and soon in SCOPUS and Web of Science. Being open access journal it is now present in numerous open access web sites in Europe, Asia and Africa. For the first 10 years the two fields became very successful in application of classical chemical engineering methodology and industrial microbiology resulting in improved production of bulk chemical and biopharmacetical products. Most of manuscripts published in that period excelled in application of mathematical methodology applied to industrial microbiology with aim to increase productivity, process scale-up, advanced process control and maximisation of product quality. However, at that time, most of the inovative ideas were from modern engineering fields applied to new bioprocesses. The trend has greatly changed some 20 years ago with advancement of genetic engineering. Basical new ideas were now brought into the field from biology, rather than from technical fields. Also the focus has been redirected from bulk chemicals to broad aspects of biotechnology aimed to environment protection and biofuels (biorefineries). For about the last 5 years CABEQ journal also reflects the latest trends in biomolecular engineering, focused on improved pharmaceuticals, microtechnology, and medical applications.

chemical; biochemical; biomolecular engineering; biotechnology

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