Fermentation, Centrifugation, Distillation, and Control Experiments for a Chemical Engineering Laboratory

实施实验所需的设备和仪器 在发酵、离心、蒸馏和控制成 提供高级化学工程实验室。 的 设备将模拟区域内的主要单元操作， 农产品发酵的重要产业， 生产乙醇作为汽油添加剂。 四个主要部分 实验设备为：实验室规模的搅拌槽生物反应器 （发酵罐），实验室规模的连续离心机，八盘 泡罩蒸馏塔，数据采集 用于监测和控制的仪器和微型计算机 蒸馏塔。目前， 工业界对化学工程应用的兴趣 生物技术过程的原则。 此外，随着 新的监控算法和 数据采集系统正在开发和使用， 行业 这些设备可以让学生们 在这两个重要领域的重要实践经验 化学工程学

Equipment and instrumentation necessary to implement experiments in fermentation, centrifugation, distillation, and control into a senior-level chemical engineering laboratory are provided. The equipment will mimic the major unit operations in the regionally important industry of fermentation of agricultural products to produce ethanol as a gasoline additive. The four major pieces of equipment are: a bench scale stirred-tank bioreactor (fermenter), a bench scale continuous centrifuge, an eight-tray bubble-cap distillation column, and the data acquisition instrumentation and microcomputers used to monitor and control the distillation column. Currently, there is significant industrial interest in the application of chemical engineering principles to biotechnological processes. Also, with the advent of the microcomputer, new supervisory control algorithms and data acquisition systems are being developed and used by industry. The equipment will allow the students to gain important hands-on experience in both of these significant areas of chemical engineering.