The branch of Chemical Engineering deals with the chemical processes for manufacturing of different products, designing of equipments, fundamental understanding, and the technology of chemical, petroleum and petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, fertilizers, foods and many other products. The Chemical Engineering department at NIT Rourkela specializes in most of the modern broad areas such as modeling and simulation, computational fluid dynamics, process control, reaction engineering, transfer operations, thermodynamics, environmental engineering, biochemical engineering, nanotechnology, renewable energy and so on.