Facilities
Chemical and biological engineering students have access to a wide variety of state-of-the-art instruments and laboratories, including the M.A.P.S. laboratory funded by the Dow Corning Foundation.
Microscopy Laboratory
Scanning electron microscope with energy dispersive X-ray and image analyzer (SEM/EDX)
Transmission electron microscope (TEM)
Atomic force microscope (AFM)
Interfacial force microscope (IFM, one of a half dozen in the world)
Mechanical and Thermal Testing Laboratory
MTS mechanical tester
Setaram microcalorimeter
Cincinnati micron injection molding machine
Process Design and System Analysis Computer Laboratory
IBM RISC / 6000 workstations
AspenPlus model manager (steady state process simulator)
AspenPlus speedup (dynamic simulator)
HYSYS process (steady state and dynamic process simulator)
Personal computer laboratory (Gateway 2000 Multimedia Pentium computers)
HSC software
Process Control Laboratory
Camile 3000 controller and data acquisition system
Analytical Laboratory
FT-IR spectrometer with microscope
FT-IR spectrometer with Attenuated Total Reflection (ATR)system
Laser-Raman spectrometer
HP 6890 gas chromatograph
Others (UV-Vis spectrometer,AA, ICP, Ion chromatograph)
Reaction and Separation Engineering Laboratory
Combustion synthesis reactor
Centrifugal combustion synthesis reactor
SHS reactor
Supercritical extractor
Supercritical equilibrium, and variable volume view cell
Supercritical reactor