Facilities
General Facility
The department is a two-level annex of the Bunzel Building located in the Talamban Campus. At the lower level are the chair’s office, the faculty room, a mini-library cum conference room, two air-conditioned classrooms and Chemical Engineering Laboratory 1. At the upper level are the research laboratory and the office of the laboratory head.
Still part of the department is a separate two-story building where the Chemical Engineering Laboratory 2 is housed and where the laboratory technicians are stationed.
The mini-library, which is intended mainly for department faculty members, is also open to students but only for limited hours. It houses the more recent editions of chemical engineering textbooks and references, encyclopedia, journals, unpublished theses and technical magazines.
Instructional Laboratories
Chemical Engineering Laboratory 1
In this laboratory, students perform experiments in flow phenomena, heat transfer processes, mass transfer processes, reaction kinetics, unit operations and process control. The following experimental set-ups and equipment are available:
- Heat Conduction (Armfield)
- Heat Exchange (Armfield)
- Agitation (Armfield)
- Fluidization
- Sedimentation (Armfield)
- Ion Exchange (Armfield)
- Process Control (Armfield)
- Packed Absoprtion Column (Armfield)
- Jaw Crusher
- Hammer Mill
- Wiley Mill
- Standard Sieves and Shaker
- Plate-and-Frame Filter Press
- Perforated Basket Centrifuge
- Vacuum Tray Dryer
Chemical Engineering Laboratory 2
This laboratory is home to pilot-scale QVF set-up for experiments in evaporation and distillation.
Physical Chemistry Laboratory
In this laboratory, students do experiments on the basic principles and analytical applications of electrochemical reactions, radiation, spectrophotometry, surface tensiometry, conductimetry, calorimetry, polarimetry, viscosimetry, osmometry and thermometry.
Research Laboratory
Located on the second level of the department building, the laboratory is sectioned into four interacting areas:
Analytical Room
An air-conditioned room that is home to the following analytical equipment and instruments:
- Total Organic Carbon Analyzer (Shimadzu TOC-5000A)
- Gas Chromatography Systems
- Shimadzu GC-17A, FI Detector, with auto-sampler
Shimadzu GC-8APT, FI Detector, manual injection
Shimadzu GC-8APT, TC Detector, manual injection
- HPLC System (Shimadzu LC-10Avp), conductivity detector (CDD-6A), UV-VIS detector (SPD-10Avp), with auto-sampler
- FPLC System (Pharmacia, Akta-FPLC), post-column detection (pH, conductivity, UV), with fraction collector
- UV-VIS Spectrophotometer (Shimadzu UV-1700 Pharmaspec)
- Dissolved Oxygen (DO) Meter
- Conductivity Meter
- Turbidity Meter
- Spectrophotometer
- Analytical balances
- Micro-rotary evaporator
- Sample homogenizer
- Vortex mixers
- Ultrasonic bath
- Magnetic stirro-heaters
- Milli-Q Water Purification System
- Storage Refrigerator
Fermentation and Microbiology Room
Installed in this air-conditioned room are the two 3-liter Bioreactor Systems equipped with a biocontroller (Applikon Dependable Instruments) that allows on-line measurements of pH, temperature, DO, and acid-base flow rates. The room is equipped with laminar flow cabinet to create a particle-free working environment. Also found in this area is the vacuum freeze dryer (Labconco) and the Zirbus autoclave.
Student Research Room
This room is designed for students doing their graduation projects. The place is equipped with basic laboratory instruments and apparatuses needed for simple testing and analyses.
- Analytical balances
- pH meters
- Dissolved Oxygen (DO) meter
- Refrigerated Centrifuges
- Variable-speed rotary shakers
- Hot plates
- Magnetic stirrers
- Shaker incubator
- Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) incubator
- Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen (TKN) digester and distillation apparatus
- Vortex mixers
- Refrigerator for chemical storage
- Spectrophotometer
- Digital refractometer
- Filtration apparatus
- Recirculating water bath
Ambient Condition Room
Bench-scale wastewater treatment studies and other experiments requiring ambient conditions are usually set up in this area. Located therein are the following:
- Six (6) 5-liter UASB reactors with peristaltic pumps and gas meters
- Muffle furnace (100-1000oC)
- Three (3) dry ovens (40-200oC)
- Two (2) Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) digesters
- Water bath
- Heaters
- Refrigerator for sample storage
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