Computer lab
Computer laboratory represents one of the extremely important laboratories in the Department of Chemical Engineering-College of Engineering. It is useful in the fields of electronic calculator education, knowledge production and dissemination through different teaching methods, community service, and reaching an advanced position among departments and colleges inside and outside Iraq. The laboratory accommodates 35 students, and the training of students is supervised by specialized professors. It contains all the necessary equipment and supplies to achieve scientific goals and safety and security conditions.
Laboratory objectives
1- Providing students by a strong foundation in computer science principles, programming abilities, and problem-solving strategies.
2- Preparing students for future education or professions in a variety of sectors, including software development, and for using the computer in terms of completing projects ,writing and formatting the research papers, create presentations, preparing statistics and engineering chart designs, etc. by using Microsoft office programs.
3- Helping students adapt to the quickly changing technology world, computer courses also attempt to promote computational thinking and digital literacy.
Chemical Engineering 1
The Chemical Engineering Laboratory 1 for students in the third stage is an introduction to industrial applications, which are the basis for the field of chemical engineering. In this laboratory, students receive a direct and more specialized application in the field of chemical engineering for what they have learned from simple laboratory experiments in the first and second stages. The experiments given throughout the academic year in Chemical Engineering Laboratory 1 are: Pitot tube, orifice meter, venturi meter, Stokes law, Calibration of the rotameter, Flow through the packed bed, Bernoulli equation, Hydrocyclone, Liquid diffusion coefficient, Cooling tower, Crystallization, Leaching, Double-pipe heat exchanger, Forced convection, saponification reaction.
Chemical Engineering 2
The Laboratory of Chemical Engineering at the Department of Chemical Engineering is a specialized laboratory in which students and researchers conduct experiments and tests related to unit operations in chemical engineering. Unit operations are fundamental steps in chemical processes that involve physical or chemical transformations of materials, and these operations are critical in various industries, including chemical manufacturing, petroleum refining, food processing, and more. The laboratory focuses on studying and optimizing these unit operations. Common unit processes that can be studied in a laboratory of chemical engineering are:
1. Filtration: This involves the separation of solids from liquids or gases using a porous medium or filter.
2. Distillation: The laboratory may have distillation columns for separating components in a mixture based on their boiling points.
3. Heat Exchangers: These are used to transfer heat between two or more fluids and are important in processes requiring temperature control.
4. Mixing and Agitation: Unit operations related to mixing and agitation are essential for achieving homogeneity in chemical processes.
5. Crystallization: Researchers may study crystallization processes to separate solids from solutions.
6. Absorption and Adsorption: These unit operations are used for gas-liquid or liquid-solid separations, such as removing impurities from gases.
7. Extraction: Laboratory setups for liquid-liquid extraction may be available to study the separation of components from a liquid mixture.
8. Drying: Unit operations involving the removal of moisture or solvents from solids may be explored.
9. Evaporation: This unit operation is used for concentrating solutions by removing the solvent.
10. Reaction Engineering: Unit operations related to chemical reactions, such as reactors, may also be part of the laboratory for studying reaction kinetics and optimization.
Currently the following experiments are given in the laboratory of chemical engineering: tray dryer, sedimentation, reverse osmosis, screen analysis, fluidization, adsorption, packed towers, Reynolds analogy, filtration, extraction, immersion bioreactor and fibrous membrane technology, and distillation.
Control laboratory
The chemical engineering process control laboratory is an important part of the curriculum for chemical engineering students. This laboratory aims to introduce students to the devices used to control processes in chemical engineering laboratories and refineries, by controlling the variables of temperature, liquid height, liquid speed, concentration, hydrogen number, and applying the concepts and basic skills in process control in chemical engineering. The laboratory is used by fourth stage students.
The most important experiments given during the laboratory are: Response of heating vessel, Response of thermometer, Response of liquid level in a continuous tank , Response of pressure vessel , Control valve , Dynamic behavior of stirred tank reactors in series.
Chemical lab
1- Organic Chemistry
“Organic chemistry laboratories are an essential part of the curriculum for chemical engineering students. The aim of these laboratories is to provide students with the opportunity to learn and apply fundamental concepts and skills in the field of organic chemistry. Here are some of the main objectives of organic chemistry laboratories for chemical engineering students:
Learn Basic Concepts: Enable students to understand fundamental concepts in organic chemistry, such as organic reactions, molecular structures, and functional groups.
Develop Experimental Skills: Provide students with opportunities to acquire practical chemical experimentation skills, helping them conduct experiments safely and accurately.
Enhance Applied Understanding: Encourage students to apply theoretical concepts in organic chemistry to solve real-world problems, such as designing and analyzing reaction processes.
Foster Critical Thinking: Promote critical thinking among students, encouraging them to evaluate experimental results and understand the importance of precision in chemical processes.
Build Teamwork Skills: Enhance teamwork skills by having students work in groups to conduct experiments and solve problems collaboratively.
Raise Safety Awareness: Educate students about the risks associated with chemical processes and how to handle chemicals safely.
Overall, organic chemistry laboratories aim to equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary to understand and apply organic chemistry in the fields of chemical engineering, industry, and scientific research.”
2- Analytical Chemistry
Analytical chemistry laboratories are an essential part of the curriculum for chemical engineering students. These laboratories aim to provide students with the opportunity to learn and apply fundamental concepts and skills in analytical chemistry.
This course is considered a necessary and basic introduction to all analytical methods. It is known that Quantitative Analytical Chemistry discusses traditional quantitative analytical methods, represented by gravimetric analysis and titrations. Among the titrations included in the course are the following:
1. Titrations of acids and bases of all types
2. Titrations during which complexes are formed
3. Sedimentation titrations
4. Redox titrations
However, the quantitative analytical chemistry course is not limited to these topics but rather includes many details, such as the foundations of equilibrium, the equilibrium of acids and bases, equilibria in the presence of complexes and their components, equilibria of precipitation reactions, in addition to the foundations of electrochemical analysis, including the types of oxidation and reduction reactions. The theoretical foundations of effort measurement Electrode and cell, reference electrodes, etc.
The quantitative analytical chemistry course also includes details of dealing with numerical results, methods of expressing them, mechanisms for evaluating those results, the associated errors, and statistical dealing with all of that.
The basis of the Quantitative Analytical Chemistry course is based on solving mathematical problems in the topics mentioned above, much more than on essay questions, which are usually absent in the course tests.
3- Physical chemistry lab
The physical chemistry laboratory includes the application of the necessary scientific experiments in the field of specialization through the performance of practical experiments distributed according to the theoretical subject, represented by calculating the molecular weight of volatile substances using the Victor Mayer and Dumas method and the elevation in boiling points, calculating density, adsorption experiments using activated carbon, measuring the temperature resulting from chemical changes. And physics, surface tension, refractive index, experiment with distributing a solute between two immiscible liquids, and experiment with calculating the order of reaction .