Research Profile Department of Chemical Engineering (DChE) is actively involved in academic as well as industrial research in collaboration with several organizations, both national and international. Diverse research groups at the department range from modeling and simulation to fuels and energy. Departmental faculty has published many articles in renowned journals and international conferences of Chemical Engineering.
The Department has the following laboratories encompassing and enriching the range of academic disciplines in which it has qualified faculty: A brief introduction to the facilities in each laboratory is presented in the following paragraphs:
Chemical Engineering Laboratory
This lab contains the pilot scale plant of the different process, It facilitates the students to understand the different industrial processes. This laboratory contains the twelve different pilot scale plant details of which are given below:
Pilot Scale Distillation Column With Vacuum Facility |
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Pilot Scale Bubble Column Reactor |
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Pilot Scale Two Bed Ion Exchanger |
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Pilot Scale Process Control Rig With Single And Cascade Loop Controllers |
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Pilot Scale Pulse Column Liquid-Liquid Extraction Unit |
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Routine Chemical Analysis Facility |
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Density Meter Up To 10-5 G/Cc Precision |
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Combustion Rig (300 Kw) Research Set Up With The Flue Gas Monitoring Facilities |
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Pilot Scale Turbulent Contact Absorber Research Set up |
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Pilot Scale Sieve Plate Distillation Column |
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Industrial Chiller |
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Gas Liquid Jacketed Stirrer tank Reactor |
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Bench Scale Liquid Extraction Unit |
Mineral Processing Laboratory
Mineral Processing laboratory is equipped and designed to meet the needs of students of M.S. Process Engineering, in particular, and other disciplines, in general. This laboratory offers students with the facilities like mineral identification, characterization, and beneficiation minerals based on the various physical and chemical properties. The details of the equipment available are as follows:
Rock Cutting Machine |
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Lapping and Polishing Machine with accessories |
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Vibratory Dics Mill |
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Vacuum Pumps |
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Frantz Isodynamic Magnetic Separator |
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Laboratory Sieving Machine |
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Agab Morter and Pestal Std. Quality 110 & 140 mm |
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Laboratory Jaw Crusher |
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Polarized microscope with photograph and image analysis capabilities |
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Flotation column |
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Digital balances (150gx0.005g), (600gx.01g), (6000gx0.1g), (50kgx5g) |
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Drying Oven |
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Mozeley Shaking Table |
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Denver Flotation Cell |
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Thin Section Cut off Saw |
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Laboratory Sample Splitter |
Analytical Chemistry Laboratory
The basic purpose of the "Applied Chemistry Laboratory" is to provide services to their M.S. and Ph.D. students during their course work and projects. In addition it also provides the services to PAEC employs and students of different Universities who come here for short courses or internship program. It contains the following equipments.
High Performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC) |
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Gas chromatograph (GC) |
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Atomic Absorption spectrometer |
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Flame Photometer |
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Rotavapor |
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Vacuum oven |
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Titro Processor |
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Centrifuge |
XRF
X-Ray Fluorescence Lab.
Last Updated: 31 May 2018