Chemical Engineering
This link takes you to iLabs which has a number of Digital Lab Twin experiments.
Contact: c.omar@sheffield.ac.uk
Gas law experiment to demonstrate Boyle’s law and experience of changing the gas pressure in a closed system
Solution Calorimetry experiment to investigate the enthalpy of solution of different types of salts
To make a simple electrochemical cell and determine the standard overall cell potential for copper/zinc with sulphate solutions
Demonstrate the set up a continuous process – including conditioning the ion-exchange column and obtain a breakthrough curve from pH measurement and colour
To determine the water lost through decomposition of magnesium and copper sulphate crystals and also use this to determine the number of water molecules lost.
To calculate the enthalpy of combustion of ethanol and isopropanol
To make up a solution of known concentration and present this in a range of units and calculate molarity and identify suitable indicators
Preparing and loading a Sample
Start a test in TGA
Clean Energy
Demonstration of Wind Turbines
Demonstration of solar cells
Demonstration of fuel cells
Demonstration of Electrolyzer
Chemical processes
Overview of distillation column
Overview of absorption column
Demonstration of a continuous crystallization process
Demonstrate non-cyclic heat engine, where the transfer of heat is used to produce work – by lifting a weight against gravity
How to design an experiment
Determine the residence time distribution in CSTR.
To measure ∆Vmix and enthalpy of mixing for a particular mixture in the water/ethanol system
Demonstration of thermal expansion and the determination of kappa (Cp/Cv) of air
Demonstration of bomb calorimetry and determination of enthalpy of combustion
Determination of the activation energy
Contact: c.omar@sheffield.ac.uk