Our Chemical Engineering Lab offers opportunity to gain valuable hands-on experience with processing and analytical equipment. Laboratory has a key role in promoting practical and hands-on education throughout the undergraduate careers of chemical engineering students at the Toms College of Engineering.
The Chemical Engineering Lab is where students apply their knowledge of theory by conducting experiments, operating production size equipment, and optimizing chemical processes. Final years students can develop creative proposals, and execute their final projects in our well equipped labs. Our goal is to provide a scientific and technological environment where students become proficient at both the physical and creative skills needed in the workforce.
Particle technology lab is designed to analyze and apply the knowledge of size analysis and size reduction methods by conducting experiments involving and to impart knowledge of solid-solid and solid-fluid separation equipment’s with their working and constructional features.
Chemical Engineering Equipment’s/ Facilities
Plat and Frame Filter press
Leaf filter apparatus
Hammer mill
Ball mill
Electric shaker
Continuous thickener
Cyclone separator
List of Experiments
Sieve analysis : determination of particle size distribution , mean diameter, specific surface area.
Determination of effectiveness of screen.
Pipette analysis for the determination of particle size distribution,mean diameter, specific surface area.
Beaker decantation for the determination of particle size distribution,mean diameter, specific surface area.
Sedimentation: detremination of area of thickner.
Ball mill: determination of critical speed.
Cyclone separator: determination of collection efficiency.
Leaf filter: determination of specific cake resistance and compressibility factor.
Verification of laws of crushing.
Studies on plate and frame filter press, hammer mill.
Chemical reaction engineering lab provides a “hands on” environment that is crucial for developing students understanding of theoretical concepts and reactions. Chemical reaction laboratory is intended to introduce undergraduate students to the areas of chemical reaction and reactor operation. Some of the experiments conducted in the laboratory are related to chemical kinetics, operation of reactors such as batch reactor, Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor (CSTR), tubular reactor and continuous stirred tank reactor in series.
The basic chemistry laboratory is designed to support and illustrate chemical concepts studied in the lecture portion of the course, as well as to introduce important laboratory techniques and encourage analytical thinking.
Chemical Engineering Equipment’s / Facilities
Burners
Reagents
Chemicals
Indicators
Glasswares
Glass boiler
Hot air oven
Chinese dishes
Digital pH meter
Digital calorimeter
Digital Potentiometer
Digital TDS/Conductivity meter
List of Experiments
Analysis of simple organic compounds
Preparations of organic compounds
Preparation of benzanilide from aniline.
Preparation of m-dinitrobenzene from nitrobenzene.
Preparation of benzoic acid from ethyl benzoate.
Preparation of glucosazone from glucose.
Preparation of salicylic acid methyl salicylate.
Volumetric estimation of organic compounds
Aromatic primary amine.
Phenol.
Glucose
Colorimetric estimation of organic compounds.
Ascorbic acid
Streptomycin
Chromatography
Identification of amino acids using paper chromatography
Fluid and particle mechanics Laboratory is designed to examine the properties of fluids and to conduct experiments involving both in-compressible and compressible flow and to analyse and apply knowledge of fluid mechanics in realistic situations by performing experiments in flow measuring and fluid moving equipment’s.
Chemical Engineering Equipment’s/ Facilities
Packed Bed Apparatus
Fluidized Bed Apparatus
Reynolds Apparatus
Bernoulli’s Apparatus
Notches Apparatus
Major Loss Apparatus
Minor Loss Apparatus
Orifice Meter
Venturi Meter
Centrifugal Pump
List of Experiments
Experiments on Reynolds apparatus for determination of flow regime and construction of fanning friction factor vs. Reynolds number plot
Detrmination of co-efficient of discharge for orificemeter
Determination of co-efficient of discharge for venturimeter
Determination of co-efficient of pitot tube and construction of velocity profile across the cross section of the pipe
Detremination of co-efficient of discharge for different types of weirs.
Determination of pressure drop for flow through packed bed and verification of ergun equation
Experiments on fluidization techniques for determination of minimum fluidization velocity and pressure drop profile
Mass transfer operations is designed to introduce the undergraduate students with the most important separation equipment in the process industry, and provide a hands-on training of the proper operation of these units. This helps in not only understanding the theoretical fundamentals of the subject but also helps to visualize its real-world applications in the process industry.
Chemical Engineering Equipment’s/ Facilities
Steam distillation apparatus
Wetted wall column apparatus
Diffusion co-efficient determination apparatus
Surface evaporation apparatus
List of Experiments
Diffusion coefficient measurement
Wetted wall column- measurement of mass transfer coefficient.
Simple Distillation
Steam distillation
Surface evaporation – Free convection mass transfer
Liquid extraction: Determination of ternary liquid – liquid equilibrium
Process dynamics and control lab is well equipped to provide laboratory application of fundamental principles of chemical process dynamics and control. This includes study of open-loop dynamics of typical chemical engineering processes and closed-loop experiments involves control loop design, controller tuning etc.
Chemical Engineering Equipment’s/ Facilities
Dynamics of Manometer
Dynamics of thermometer with thermowell
Dynamics of thermocouple
Dynamics of thermometer
Calibration of thermocouple
Two tank non interacting system
Single tank system
Two tank interacting system
List of Experiments
Calibration of thermocouple
Dynamics of thermocouple
Dynamics of thermometer
Dynamics of thermometer with thermo well
Dynamics of manometer
Dynamics of liquid level system – single tank
Dynamics of liquid level system – non-interacting tanks in series
Dynamics of liquid level system – interacting tanks in series
Heat Transfer laboratory provides fundamental and industrial knowledge about modes of heat transfer, like conduction, convection and radiation, and their application.
Chemical Engineering Equipment’s/Facilities:
Heat exchanger – parallel & counter flow
Shell & tube heat exchanger
Forced convection apparatus
Natural convection apparatus
Flash point apparatus
Fire point apparatus
List of Experiments
Determination of LMTD and effectiveness of parallel flow, Counter flow and cross flow heat exchangers( double pipe heat exchanger)
Determination of heat transfer coefficients in free convection(free convection apparatus)
Determination of heat transfer coefficients in forced convection (forced convection apparatus)
Determination of thermal conductivity of solids(composite wall)
Determination of thermal conductivity of powder
Determination of Thermal conductivity of liquids
Determination of emissivity of a specimen (emissivity apparatus)
Determination of Stefan Boltzman constant (Stefan Boltzmann apparatus)
The chemical technology and environmental engineering lab is designed to illustrate the application of chemistry to the environment in monitoring, analysing and in quality control.
Chemical Engineering Equipment’s/ Facilities
Hot air oven
Digital pH meter
Digital Potentiometer
Digital TDS/Conductivity meter
Digital calorimeter
List of Experiments
Determine the Acid value of the given oil sample.
Determine the Iodine value of the given oil sample.
Determine the Saponification value of the given oil sample.
Determine the available chlorine in bleaching powder.
Preparation and analysis of soap.
Estimate the hardness of the given sample of water.
Estimate the dissolved oxygen in the given water sample.
Estimate the COD of the given water sample.
Estimate the BOD of the given water sample.
Estimate the total solids and dissolved solids content of the given waste water sample.
Determine the sucrose content in given sugar sample.
