Development of an Environmental Chemical Engineering Laboratory

解决当今的环境问题需要掌握传质、反应工程和分离过程的基本知识。这些技术领域是化学工程课程的基础。因此，化学工程师将在21世纪的环境保护中发挥不可或缺的作用。然而，环境工程通常被安置在土木工程中，它从污水处理、废水处理和垃圾填埋工作中发展出来。环境工程的未来，以及该领域的主要发展，在于化学工程领域。环境化学工程实验室（ECEL）的发展是部门倡议的一个步骤，为本科化学工程专业的学生提供环境工程原理的全面基础。在ECEL中，研究了一系列废物处理过程。本项目以废物所在的介质为组织工具，主要进行大气污染控制、废水处理和危险废物回收的实验研究。因此，实验展示了汽车催化转化器、固体废物的超临界流体萃取、工艺废水的化学氧化、含水污染物在活性炭上的吸附以及用于低浓度危险废物回收的反渗透的性能。这些实验不仅说明了环境应用，而且基于化学工程的基本原理。总的来说，这组实验代表了化学工程和环境工程的协同作用。＊

The resolution of today's environmental problems requires a fundamental knowledge of mass transfer, reaction engineering, and separation processes. These technical areas are the foundation of the chemical engineering curriculum. Chemical engineers will thus play an integral role in protecting the environment in the 21st century. However, environmental engineering is commonly housed in civil engineering, where it grew out of sewage treatment, wastewater treatment, and landfill efforts. The future of environmental engineering, and major developments in the field, lies in the realm of chemical engineering. The development of an Environmental Chemical Engineering Laboratory (ECEL) is one step in a departmental initiative to provide undergraduate chemical engineering students with a thorough grounding in the principles of environmental engineering. Within the ECEL, a series of waste treatment processes are investigated. With the media in which the waste is located as an organizing tool, this project is primarily concerned with experiments investigating air pollution control, wastewater treatment, and hazardous waste redemption. As a result, the experiments are demonstration and performance of an automotive catalytic converter, supercritical fluid extraction of solid waste, chemical oxidation of process wastewater, adsorption of aqueous contaminants onto activated carbon, and reverse osmosis for the recovery of low-concentration hazardous waste. Each of these experiments not only illustrate environmental applications, but are based on the fundamental principles of chemical engineering. Taken together, this group of experiments represent the synergy of chemical and environmental engineering. *