全书分为十个单元，每个单元均由课文、阅读材料和科技英语翻译组成。课文和阅读材料均源于原版的英文教材和期刊，选材上与专业知识衔接，深度和广度适当，主要内容包括：化工基础知识、化工单元操作、化工设备、无机化工、有机化工、石油化工、高分子材料、精细化工、煤化工和绿色化工。
本书是为高职高专化工类专业编写的专业课教材，各院校可以根据本校的专业研究方向选学其中的内容，本书也可供同等英语程度的化工技术人员或相近领域人员使用。

Unit One Basic Knowledge of Chemical Engineering
Lesson One Chemical Composition
Lesson Two Chemical Reaction Stoichiometry
Lesson Three Balances on Reactive Processes
Reading Materials: Catalyst
科技英语翻译一 科技英语的特点
Unit Two Chemical Unit Operation
Lesson Four Glossary of the Chemical Process Terms
Lesson Five Distillation
Reading Material: Fluid Flow Phenomena
科技英语翻译二 翻译的标准和翻译的过程
Unit Three Chemical Equipment
Lesson Six Heat Exchangers
Lesson Seven Ideal Batch Reactor
Reading Material: Drying Equipment
科技英语翻译三 翻译的一般方法
Unit Four Inorganic Chemical Engineering
Lesson Eight Ammonia Synthesis
Lesson Nine Sulfuric Acid
Reading Material: Sodium Carbonate
科技英语翻译四 词性转换法
Unit Five Organic Chemical Engineering
Lesson Ten Methanol Synthesis
Lesson Eleven Production of Phenol
Reading Material: Development of Organic Synthesis
科技英语翻译五 增词省词译法
Unit Six Petroleum Chemical Engineering
Lesson Twelve Cracking
Lesson Thirteen Catalytic Reforming
Reading Material: Crude Oil
科技英语翻译六 名词性从句的翻译方法
Unit Seven Macromolecular Material
Lesson Fourteen Polymerizations by Chain Reactions
Lesson Fifteen Polyethylene
Reading Material: History of Plastics
科技英语翻译七 定语从句的翻译方法
Unit Eight Fine Chemical Engineering
Lesson Sixteen Surfactant
Lesson Seventeen Detergent Formulation
Reading Material: Production of Anionic Surfactants
科技英语翻译八 状语从句的翻译方法（一）
Unit Nine Coal Chemical Engineering
Lesson Eighteen Coal Liquefaction
Lesson Nineteen Coal Gasification
Reading Material: Coal
科技英语翻译九 状语从句的翻译方法（二）
Unit Ten Green Chemical Engineering
Lesson Twenty Green Chemistry
Lesson Twenty-one Waste Minimization and Solvent Recovery
Lesson Twenty-two Low-Carbon Economy and Cleaner Energy
Reading Material: Greenhouse Gases
科技英语翻译十 被动语态的翻译方法
Vocabulary（词汇表）
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