The Department of Chemical Engineering offers students a unique learning experience with its world-class
Unit Operations Laboratory and Process Simulation and Control Center (PSCC), which boasts 6,500 square feet and a three-story open bay dedicated to chemical-processing education.
The laboratory features 18 bench and pilot-plant-scale unit-operations experiments focused on pumping fundamentals, heat exchange, membrane separation, kinetics, liquid extraction, vacuum drying, and flow measurement, among other chemical processes. Students gain hands-on experience with two fully automated pilot plants, a three-story distillation column (solvent recovery unit), and a two-story batch reactor. The PSCC is equipped with a DeltaVTM control system and OSI Soft-PIdataTM historian and retrieval software.