Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). The 5 volumes set contains selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2012 2nd International Conference on Chemical, Material and Metallurgical Engineering (ICCMME 2012), December 15-16, 2012, Kunming, P.R. of China. The ICCMME series provide the most up-to-date and authoritative knowledge from both industrial and academic worlds, sharing best practice in the field of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials and Materials Processing and Metallurgical Engineering. The meeting provided an opportunity to highlight recent developments and to identify emerging and future areas of growth in these exciting fields.