The heart of many Chemical Engineering operations is the chemical reactor. This laboratory offers team-based and student-defined projects investigating reaction engineering problems in areas of interest within the chemical industry. To enhance the practical knowledge of industrial application of chemical reaction engineering a number of reactors like CSTR, Plug flow reactor, batch reactor, sonochemical reactor, photo chemical reactor etc are available in this laboratory.
List of Major Equipment
- List of Major Equipment
- Photochemical Reactor
- Sonochemical Reactor
Chemical Reaction Engineering Lab
List of Experiments
| Sl.No | Description of Experiment |
|---|---|
| 1 | To determine the specific reaction constant for saponification of ethyl acetate with NaOH. |
| 2 | To determine the specific reaction rate constant at room temperature for the saponification reaction between ethyl acetate and sodium hydroxide in a tubular reactor. |
| 3 | To study the saponification reaction between ethyl acetate and sodium hydroxide in an isothermal mixed flow reactor and to determine the specific rate constant at room temperature. |
| 4 | To determine the variation of sodium hydroxide concentration with time from a semi batch reactor in which the saponification reaction takes place. Also to compare the theoretical and experimental value of outlet concentration at ambient temperature. |
| 5 | To determine the conversion of esterification reaction between ethanol and acetic acid using batch adiabatic reactor and to find order and rate constant of the reaction using differential approach. |
| 6 | To carry out the saponification reaction in a packed bed reactor by using ethyl acetate and sodium hydroxide and to determine the specific reaction rate constant. |
| 7 | To study the non-ideality of PFR and to plot the exit time distribution of the reactor i.e. to obtain C-curve, E- curve and F-curve and to find the vessel dispersion number. |
| 8 | To study the effect of temperature for reaction between non-equimolar (M≠1) quantities of sodium hydroxide and ethyl acetate in a batch reactor and to determine the activation energy and frequency factor using Arrhenius equation. |
| 9 | To determine the effect of substrate concentration on α –amylase by Shoffer-Somogyi method. |
| 10 | To determine RTD and plot f curve for experimental data obtained from mixed flow reactor. |
| 11 | To find the rate constant for the Degradation of Methylene blue dye in presence of Ultrasonic cavitation. |
| 12 | To find the rate constant for the Degradation of Methylene blue dye in presence of UV light. |
