Background and Scope

Process engineering services include all the aspects of process research, such as process feasibility, process troubleshooting, process design, scale-up, and economics study. The Center provides a complete list of process engineering services, including process and equipment design. The Center handles both conventional and emerging chemical process research at various scales and with widely ranging scopes. The projects often involve all of minipilot of pilot scale demonstration, full-scale process optimization, scale-up of process units, and fundamental mechanistic studies.

Areas of Research

Supercritical Technology

Clean Coal Technology

Reactive Polymer Processing

Methanol Synthesis

Environmental Process Engineering

Facilities

Supercritical Pilot Plants

Analytical Instruments

Instruments available to the Process Research Center include: Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer (GC/MS), Liquid Chromatograph (LC), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer (FTIR), Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC), Thermogravimetric Analyzer (TGA), CHN Analyzer, Chlorine Analyzer, Coulter Counter, Oxygen Bomb Calorimeter, Rheogoniometer, X-Ray Flourescence (XRF), Gas Chromatographs (GC), X-Ray Diffraction (XRF), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Electron Microprobe Analyzer (EMPA), Sulfur Analyzer, and Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM).

Personnel

Director, Dr. Sunggyu Lee

Assistant Director, Dr. Kathy Fullerton

Technical Assistant

Administrative Assistant

Advisor, Dr. Robert W. Roberts