Undergraduate Laboratory

The Richard Lee Huntington Chemical Engineering Laboratory is an undergraduate instructional laboratory.  The Laboratory occupies 3,250 square feet on the ground floor in the Sarkeys Energy Center at the University of Oklahoma.  Of this space, about 450 square feet are high-bay (two story ceiling) area to accommodate tall experimental units.  The Laboratory has a full complement of utilities including steam, cooling water, compressed air, natural gas, vacuum, and both 110 and 220 volt electricity.  Utility drops with valve cutoffs are conveniently located along the length of the laboratory to provide easy access and flexibility in locating experimental units.

The facility is used for two undergraduate laboratory courses in the chemical engineering curriculum, Unit Operations Laboratory in the junior year and Chemical Engineering Design Laboratory in the senior year.  Recent modifications and additions have introduced digital data acquisition and automatic control facilities to a number of experiments.  With these new capabilities, the laboratory will also be used by two other senior level courses.  Process Design and Control and Chemical Engineering Kinetics.

The experiments in the Laboratory are designed to introduce chemical engineering undergraduates to generic operations widely found in industrial applications. These experiments give the students an opportunity to apply the principles of chemical engineering-material and energy balances: momentum heat, and mass transfer; thermodynamics; kinetics; and chemical engineering design - to real problems.

Experiments in the R. L. Huntington Chemcial Engineering Laboratory are: