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Create Living Chemical Processes

Develop chemical engineering processes that exhibit properties of living systems including metabolism, growth, reproduction, and evolution. Living chemical processes would process raw materials like biological organisms, grow and adapt to changing conditions, reproduce successful process configurations, and evolve to improve their performance over time. The challenge involves creating chemical systems that exhibit genuine biological properties, developing chemical metabolism and reproduction mechanisms, and ensuring stable operation of living chemical processes. Applications include chemical plants that grow and evolve to optimize production, self-replicating chemical processes for space applications, and chemical systems that adapt automatically to new products and conditions. Success would create sustainable chemical systems that improve themselves, provide models for other living technological systems, and enable chemical processes that evolve optimal performance automatically.

Engineering, Core Engineering, Chemical Engineering