Department of Chemical Engineering

S. No.	Laboratory	Faculty-In-charge
1	Chemical Reaction Engineering	Dr. V. Divya
2	Fluid Mechanics	Dr. G. Manikandan
3	Heat Transfer	Mr. D. Sivakumar
4	Instrumental method of analysis	Mr. N. Arun Prem anand
5	Mass Transfer	Dr. N. P. Kavitha
6	Mechanical Operations	Mr. S. Rajasekar
7	Process Modelling and simulation	Dr. Rajesh @ Nithyanandham
8	Process Control	Mr. S. Jaiganesh

FLUID MECHANICS LABORATORY

The facilities available in this laboratory :
• Fluid Friction Loss in closed circuit conduit and fittings
• Flow in open channels and measurement devices such as orifice, venturi, pitot tube and rotameter
• Centrifugal/Reciprocating/Gear pump characteristics
• Drag studies and efflux time studies
• Pressure drop characteristics in Annulus, Helical coil, packed and fluidizedbeds

 HEAT TRANSFER LABORATORY 

 

The facilities available in this laboratory :

· Conduction with constant flux and temperature

· Forced and natural convection

· Emissivity and Stefan-Boltzman radiation studies

· Finned tube heat transfer

· Double pipe and shell & tube heat exchanger

· Horizontal & vertical condensers

· Evaporators

· Agitated vessel heat transfer characteristics

 

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 MECHANICAL OPERATIONS LABORATORY 

 

The facilities available in this laboratory :

· Crushing and grinding equipment

· Sieve shakers, vibratory screens and cyclone separators

· Filtration equipment

· Sedimentation, Elutriator and Forth Flotation equipment

 

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 MASS TRANSFER LABORATORY 

 

The facilities available in this laboratory :

· Distillation

· Absorption

· Extraction

· Drying

· Humidification and leaching

· VLE, Diffusion and Holdup studies

 

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 CHEMICAL REACTION ENGINEERING LABORATORY 

 

The facilities available in this laboratory :

· Batch, Semi-Batch and Continuous (CSTR & Tubular) reactors

· Packed bed reactors

· Combined Reactors and Multiple Reactors

· RTD studies in CSTR and Tubular Reactors

· Non-Catalytic Heterogeneous Reactors

 

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 PROCESS DYNAMICS & CONTROL LABORATORY 

 

The facilities available in this laboratory :

· Non-Interacting level systems

· Interacting level system

· Control valve characteristics

· Flow co-efficient and range ability of control valve

· ON-OFF control of thermal system, flow system, level system and pressure system

· Pressure transmitter in pressure control loop and level transmitter in level control loop

· Digital simulation of linear system

· Simulation of feedback and feed forward control system

· Study of distributed control system(DCS)

 

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Process Modeling & Simulation Laboratory

The facilities available in this laboratory :

· ASPEN PLUS V8.2

· PRO-SIM

· MAT LAB

· Ansys FLUENT 14.5

 

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 INSTRUMENTAL METHODS OF ANALYSIS LABORATORY 

 

The facilities available in this laboratory :

· Gas Chromatography (Make: Shimadzu) : 2 No.s

· High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) (Make: Shimadzu) : 2 No.s

· Thermo-gravimetric Analysis (Make: Shimadzu) : 1 No.s

· Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (Make: Thermo Scientific) : 1 No.s

· Electro chemical Workstation - Cyclic Voltametry (Make: Autolab): 1 No.s

· UV Visible Spectrophotometer (Make: Shimadzu) : 2 No.s

· Differential Thermal Analysis (Make: Shimadzu): 1 No.s