Question Breaking Bad Show Question

[Blammo]

Spoilers!

Spoilers!


In the later part of the Breaking Bad TV show, the main characters are in a large industrial lab.

My question is, would a chemist be the ideal choice in this scenario, or a chemical engineer? Or would it matter?

Just curious as chem engineers are typically more large scale, and I figured at several hundred pounds a week of product, that would be their territory. But Walter is a chemist, not a chemical engineer.

Just wondering!

 

[Osmosis Vanderwaal]

This is just my opinion. A chemical engineer designs processes and equipment. So unless you are making custom batch reactors ro some other novel process, a chemist would suffice

 

[Blammo]

Got it, makes sense.

Gus probably bought the equipment, which was already designed and what not.

Ok, I was always bothered by that. I always thought chemical engineers were more geared to designing processes, and also large scale chemistry. But I see I was mistaken

 

[mycelium]

Gus wanted walts stuff, specifically.
He wanted to hire gale but gale said he couldn't do it yet, without walt.
If they already had the lab, and the SOP, they could hire entry level Chemical Operators to follow the synthesis.
Just me thought.
(I watched it a few months ago, again!)