Chair(s): Guangwen Chu; Zhe Yang
Co-chair(s)(from abroad): Marc-Olivier Coppens
Secretary-general: Wei Xu
Contact information: Yanbin Li +86 18810869015; liyb@mail.buct.edu.cn
Introduction: The WCCE 12 & APCChE 2025 conference aims to address global challenges related to climate change, energy revolution, improved quality of life, and poverty reduction. It seeks to transform the paradigm of chemical engineering. Inherent safety in chemical processes is a crucial means to prevent safety accidents in the chemical industry and achieve green, safe, and efficient chemical production. Inherent safety in chemical processes focuses on risk control from the source, requiring a combination of inherently safer technology, risk perception and monitoring, risk management, and emergency response measures. Leveraging process intensification technologies, such as downsizing, cleaning, safety enhancement, and energy efficiency in chemical engineering, is a critical path toward achieving inherent safety, which involves various disciplines, including reaction engineering, mass transfer, and heat transfer, encompassing aspects like forced transfer enhancement, external energy field enhancement, and intensified reaction media. This session aims to convey the concept of inherent safety in chemical engineering to the world. Then the progress and future directions along with the latest process intensification techniques would be discussed.