Unit Operations Lab
The department’s well-equipped Unit Operations Laboratory includes modules of major process units to support undergraduate instruction in the core areas of thermodynamics, fluids, separation, heat and mass transport, reaction engineering, and process control.
Double-Effect Evaporator
![double-effect_evaporator.jpg double-effect_evaporator](/sites/default/files/images/double-effect_evaporator.jpg)
Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger with Process Control
![shell_and_tube_heat_exchanger_with_process_control.jpg shell_and_tube_heat_exchanger](/sites/default/files/images/shell_and_tube_heat_exchanger_with_process_control.jpg)
Eight-Tray Distillation Column with Control
![eight-traycolumn_0.jpg Dr. Antonella Sciortino](/sites/default/files/images/eight-traycolumn_0.jpg)
Dual Packed Columns for Stripping Absorption
![dual_packed_columns_for_stripping_absorption_3.jpg Dr. Antonella Sciortino](/sites/default/files/images/dual_packed_columns_for_stripping_absorption_3.jpg)
Rotary Vacuum Filtration
![rotary_vacuum_filtration.jpg rotary_vacuum_filtration](/sites/default/files/images/rotary_vacuum_filtration.jpg)
![tray_drying.jpg tray_drying](/sites/default/files/images/tray_drying.jpg)
Packed Column for Sour-Gas Absorption with Control
![packed_column_for_sour-gas_absorption_with_control.jpg Dr. Antonella Sciortino](/sites/default/files/images/packed_column_for_sour-gas_absorption_with_control.jpg)
Packed Column for Liquid Extraction
![packedliquidextraction.jpg Dr. Antonella Sciortino](/sites/default/files/images/packedliquidextraction.jpg)
Vapor/Compression Cycle Refrigeration
![vapor_compression_cycle_refrigeration.jpg double-effect_evaporator](/sites/default/files/images/vapor_compression_cycle_refrigeration.jpg)
Pressure Losses in a Flow System
![pressure_losses_in_a_flow_system.jpg shell_and_tube_heat_exchanger](/sites/default/files/images/pressure_losses_in_a_flow_system.jpg)
Fluidized Bed
![fluidized_bed.jpg fluidized bed](/sites/default/files/images/fluidized_bed.jpg)
Cooling Tower
![cooling_tower.jpg Dr. Antonella Sciortino](/sites/default/files/images/cooling_tower.jpg)
Pool Boiling
![pool_boiling.jpg rotary_vacuum_filtration](/sites/default/files/images/pool_boiling.jpg)
Process Control of Liquid Flow, Level or Temperature
![process_control_of_liquid_flow_level_or_temperature.jpg tray_drying](/sites/default/files/images/process_control_of_liquid_flow_level_or_temperature.jpg)
Tank Efflux
![tank_efflux_0.jpg Dr. Antonella Sciortino](/sites/default/files/images/tank_efflux_0.jpg)
Convective Heat Transfer
![convective_heat_transfer.jpg Dr. Antonella Sciortino](/sites/default/files/images/convective_heat_transfer.jpg)
Haake Rotational Rheometer
![haake_rotational_rheometer.jpg double-effect_evaporator](/sites/default/files/styles/wysiwyg_max_width/public/images/haake_rotational_rheometer.jpg?itok=48aro_hu)
Brookfield Rotational Viscometer
![brookfield_rotational_viscometer.jpg shell_and_tube_heat_exchanger](/sites/default/files/images/brookfield_rotational_viscometer.jpg)
Colorimeter
![colorimeter.jpg Dr. Antonella Sciortino](/sites/default/files/images/colorimeter.jpg)
Burrell Extrusion Rheometer
![burrell_extrusion_rheometer.jpg rotary_vacuum_filtration](/sites/default/files/images/burrell_extrusion_rheometer.jpg)
Refractometer
![refractometer.jpg tray_drying](/sites/default/files/images/refractometer.jpg)
pH meter
![ph_meter.jpg Dr. Antonella Sciortino](/sites/default/files/images/ph_meter.jpg)