About The Chinese Journal of Process Engineering

The Chinese Journal of Process Engineering

The Chinese Journal of Process Engineering, known in Chinese as Guocheng Gongcheng Xuebao (过程工程学报), is a Chinese-language engineering journal published in Beijing by the Institute of Process Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with Science Press. Its International Standard Serial Number is ISSN 1009-606X, the identifier that appears in its article DOIs in the form 10.12034/j.issn.1009-606X. The journal was launched under its present title in 2001, succeeding the Journal of Chemical Metallurgy, which had been founded in 1980. It covers process engineering in the broad sense that its host institute helped to define in China: the study of multiphase systems, the engineering of materials processes, and green chemical engineering. Its own website carries current issues in both Chinese and English presentation — volume 26, issue 4 was listed for April 2026 — and directory services record it as an active Scopus-indexed title published by Science Press. This profile sets out what can be verified about its origins, its institute, its scope and its standing.

From chemical metallurgy to process engineering

The journal's history has two chapters. The first begins in 1980 with the Journal of Chemical Metallurgy, the periodical of the Beijing institute then known by that name, which reported research applying chemical engineering principles to metallurgical processes. The second begins in 2001, when the journal was relaunched under the title The Chinese Journal of Process Engineering. The renaming was not cosmetic. In the same year, 2001, the host institute was formally renamed: approved by the Central Institutional Organization Commission, the Institute of Chemical Metallurgy became the Institute of Process Engineering. Journal and institute changed names together because the underlying discipline had broadened. Work that began with the chemistry of extracting and refining metals had expanded into resources and environment, energy, and the preparation of materials, and the institute had pioneered the field of process engineering in China, organising systematic research around space-time multi-scale structures. A journal titled for chemical metallurgy alone could no longer contain that programme; a journal of process engineering could. The 1980 founding of the predecessor gives the present title a lineage of more than four decades, while the 2001 relaunch marks the start of its modern identity.

The Institute of Process Engineering

The journal's home, the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was founded on 1 October 1958 as the Institute of Chemical Metallurgy. Its official profile records that in its early years, under Professor Chu-phay Yap (Ye Zhupei), the institute improved metallurgical processes using chemical principles and established the "three highs theory" of high top pressure, high blast temperature and high blast humidity for blast furnaces, which doubled iron output. In the 1970s, under Professors Mooson Kwauk (Guo Muxun) and Chen Jiayong, it expanded the application of chemical engineering principles into resources and environment, energy and material preparation. After 2000 it pioneered process engineering as a discipline in China, and in 2019 it jointly established the Innovation Academy for Green Manufacturing of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, charged with leading the green transformation of manufacturing. The institute reports hundreds of achievement awards at international, national and provincial levels. Among the academic journals it runs, its profile lists The Chinese Journal of Process Engineering first, alongside Particuology, Green Energy & Environment, Green Chemical Engineering and Industrial Chemistry & Materials — a family of titles that shows the journal operating as the Chinese-language foundation of a wider, partly English-language publishing programme.

What process engineering means here

To understand the journal's scope, readers need the institute's definition of its discipline. Process engineering, as developed at IPE, studies how materials and energy are transformed in industrial processes — in chemical plants, metallurgical works, energy systems and materials production — with attention to structures and behaviour at multiple scales, from molecules and particles through reactors to whole plants. The journal's sponsoring description summarises its coverage as process engineering, multiphase systems, materials process engineering and green chemical engineering. Multiphase systems — mixtures of gas, liquid and solid phases, as in fluidised beds, stirred tanks, distillation columns and leaching reactors — are the classical core: most industrial transformations happen in such systems, and their flow, heat and mass transfer and reaction behaviour decide whether a process works efficiently. Materials process engineering extends the same thinking to the preparation of powders, catalysts, energy materials and functional materials. Green chemical engineering applies it under environmental constraint: cleaner production, efficient resource use, recycling of wastes and lower emissions. A typical recent issue illustrates the mixture: studies of gas-liquid stirred tanks, vortex separators for refining and petrochemistry, green synthesis of an ionic liquid salt, carbon dioxide hydrogenation catalysts, and reviews on thermoelectric materials and particle tracking in multiphase flows.

Scope in detail: systems, materials and green processes

The journal's contents, visible in its published issue listings, range across several recurring territories. First, multiphase flow and transport: measurement and simulation of bubbles, particles and droplets, fluidised-bed behaviour, and heat and mass transfer in reactors and columns, including computational work with open-source simulation tools. Second, separation and reaction processes: distillation, leaching of ores and concentrates, extraction, and catalytic reaction engineering, including catalysts for converting carbon dioxide to methanol. Third, metallurgical and resource processes, the inheritance of the chemical metallurgy years: iron and steel processes, recycling of spent lithium-ion batteries, and hydrometallurgical recovery of metals — topics now framed by China's carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals. Fourth, energy and materials processes: energy storage units, thermoelectric materials, soft magnetic composites and high-entropy oxides for lithium storage. Fifth, green and low-carbon process technology: green synthesis routes that cut raw material use and waste, ultra-low emissions in steel, and process intensification. Reviews sit alongside research articles — recent issues open with review papers on topics such as positron emission particle tracking and multiscale discrete particle simulation — giving the journal a dual role as a record of new results and a survey of where process technology is heading.

Publication pattern and bibliographic record

The journal appears under ISSN 1009-606X with Science Press recorded as publisher in international directories, and its articles carry DOIs under the prefix 10.12034 with the ISSN embedded in the suffix, a pattern visible across its recent volumes. Its own site presents a regular sequence of numbered issues: volume 24 ran through 2024, volume 25 through 2025, and volume 26 reached issue 4 in April 2026, a cadence consistent with monthly publication. Volume numbering counts from the 2001 relaunch rather than from the 1980 predecessor, which is why a journal with roots in 1980 was at volume 26 in 2026. Journal-metric services that draw on Scopus and SCImago data list the title as active from 2001 to the present, classify it under chemical engineering and engineering, and record Science Press as publisher and China as country of publication. For directory purposes the essential identifiers are stable and checkable: Chinese title Guocheng Gongcheng Xuebao, English title The Chinese Journal of Process Engineering, ISSN 1009-606X, Beijing, Institute of Process Engineering and Science Press.

Indexing and standing

Internationally, the journal is recorded as indexed in Scopus, the Elsevier database on which SCImago rankings are built; journal-specification services list Scopus coverage for the title, and citation-metric services track its impact data year by year. Domestically, it is one of the established Chinese-language journals of its field, published by a Chinese Academy of Sciences institute through the academy's Science Press, and read through China's national journal databases. That dual presence — a Chinese-language text, an internationally tracked bibliographic record — is the normal pattern for senior institute journals in China, and it is the pattern this journal follows. Its standing should be described precisely: it is not an English-language flagship competing for global submissions, but the house journal of the institute that created process engineering as a named discipline in China, which gives its contents documentary value for anyone tracing how Chinese chemical engineering redefined itself after 2000. When IPE researchers set out the field's agenda — virtual process engineering, the EMMS paradigm of multiscale simulation, green manufacturing — this is one of the journals in which that agenda appears in Chinese, in full.

Language and readership

The journal is published in Chinese, with its website providing English-language presentation of titles, abstracts and issue information for international browsing. Its primary readership is China's process industries and the universities and institutes that serve them: chemical engineers, metallurgists, materials scientists and environmental engineers who design, operate and improve industrial processes. The subject matter explains the readership. A paper on classification performance in a vortex separator, on leaching kinetics for a niobium-tantalum concentrate, or on deep removal of aluminium from battery-recycling leachate speaks directly to plant-level problems in refining, mining and the fast-growing battery recycling sector. Graduate students in chemical engineering form a second readership, using the journal's reviews to enter fields such as multiphase measurement or multiscale simulation. For readers outside China, the English issue listings and abstracts on the journal's site offer a window onto the preoccupations of Chinese process research — in recent years, visibly, decarbonisation of steel, recycling of energy materials, and carbon dioxide utilisation.

Place within its institute's journal family

The Institute of Process Engineering's own profile lists five journals: The Chinese Journal of Process Engineering, Particuology, Green Energy & Environment, Green Chemical Engineering, and Industrial Chemistry & Materials. Four of the five are English-language titles launched to carry the institute's fields to international readers; the Chinese Journal of Process Engineering, the oldest of the group through its 1980 predecessor, is the Chinese-language counterpart, serving the domestic community in its working language. The institute also hosts the Chinese Society of Particuology, a first-grade national society affiliated to IPE, whose subject — the science of particles — overlaps one of the journal's core territories, particulate and multiphase systems. This family structure clarifies the journal's role: it is the senior, generalist, Chinese-language forum of the institute, while the younger English titles specialise — particles, green energy, green chemical engineering, industrial chemistry and materials — for an international audience. A researcher following IPE's work will typically meet the institute first through one of the English journals, but the fullest record of its process research appears here.

Why the journal matters for a directory of Chinese media

WorldNM profiles media outlets of every kind, and scientific journals such as this one earn their place because they are part of a country's knowledge infrastructure. The Chinese Journal of Process Engineering documents, issue by issue, the concerns of the engineers who run China's process industries: how to smelt, refine, separate and synthesise with less energy, less waste and fewer emissions. Its institutional pedigree is unusually clear — founded as the Journal of Chemical Metallurgy in 1980, relaunched in 2001 in step with its institute's renaming, published in Beijing by that institute with Science Press, identified by ISSN 1009-606X, indexed in Scopus and still publishing monthly volumes in 2026. Few facts about a journal are more useful than the names of the people and institutions behind it, and here they are prominent scientists and a major academy institute: Chu-phay Yap and Mooson Kwauk in the founding generations, and a present-day institute leading a national academy for green manufacturing. The journal is best read, and is profiled here, as the printed record of that institute and its discipline.

Summary

In summary: The Chinese Journal of Process Engineering (Guocheng Gongcheng Xuebao) is a Beijing-based, Chinese-language journal published by the Institute of Process Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences with Science Press, under ISSN 1009-606X. It was launched under this title in 2001, succeeding the Journal of Chemical Metallurgy founded in 1980, in parallel with its host institute's renaming from the Institute of Chemical Metallurgy — founded in 1958 — to the Institute of Process Engineering. Its scope covers process engineering, multiphase systems, materials process engineering and green chemical engineering, from fluidised beds and stirred tanks to battery recycling, carbon dioxide conversion and low-carbon steelmaking. It is indexed in Scopus, publishes regular monthly issues — volume 26 in 2026 — and stands as the senior Chinese-language journal of the institute that pioneered process engineering in China.