ARFMP: Modernization of Fenske Chemical Engineering Laboratory

这项学术研究设施现代化计划（ARFMP）由研究设施办公室颁发，为宾夕法尼亚州立大学-大学公园校区提供资金，用于翻新和修复芬斯克实验室，该实验室容纳了该机构的化学工程研究和研究培训活动，包括摩擦学研究、表面活性剂材料科学、环境过程和催化作用。这座建筑建于1958年，并于1968年扩建了一个新的侧翼，但从那时起就没有翻新过。受资方提供的82.5万美元和1133226美元的ARFMP赠款将用于使这些研究和研究培训设施现代化。该项目将通过升级供暖和空调来解决改善当前研究基础设施的需求，以确保计算机和敏感仪器的适当条件；安装适当的通风、照明和电路，以符合健康和安全标准；提供残疾人通道；安装计算机网络所需的线路；翻新实验室空间。该奖项通过为美国最重要的研究项目之一摩擦学研究项目以及宾夕法尼亚州立大学化学工程系的其他领域提供改善的环境，为科学和工程的基础设施做出了贡献。在这些实验室中训练的学生在基础研究和应用研究领域都有需求，这些实验室使用高科技仪器，并开发了许多功能性液体和润滑剂。

This Academic Research Facilities Modernization Program (ARFMP) award from the Research Facilities Office provides funds to The Pennsylvania State University-University Park Campus for the renovation and repair of Fenske Laboratory which houses that institution's chemical engineering research and research training activities, including tribology research, materials science of surfactants, environmental processes, and catalysis. This building was constructed in 1958 and was expanded by the addition of a new wing in 1968, but it has not been renovated since that time. The ARFMP grant of $825,000 and $1,133,226 provided by the grantee as cost sharing will be used to modernize these research and research training facilities. This project will address the need to improve the current research infrastructure by upgrading heating and air- conditioning to ensure proper conditions for computers and sensitive instruments; installing proper ventilation, lighting, and electrical circuits to meet health and safety standards; providing handicapped access; installing the wiring necessary for a computer network; and refurbishing laboratory space. This award contributes to the infrastructure of science and engineering by providing an improved environment for one of the nation's premier research programs, the Tribology Research Program, as well as for other fields of The Pennsylvania State University's Department of Chemical Engineering. Students trained in these laboratories, where high technology instruments are used and where numerous functional fluids and lubricants have been developed, are in demand in both basic and applied research fields.