UNIT OPERATION EXPERIMENT LINKING CLASSROOM WITH INDUSTRIAL PROCESSING

摘要

In an effort to provide a link between classroom/textbook learning and real-world application, senior-level chemical engineering students at Lamar University performed a unique crossover experiment within their unit operations laboratory. Adjacent to Lamar University is a two-year technical school, Lamar Institute of Technology (LIT), that has a training program for technicians going into the chemical operations occupations. As a teaching tool, LIT has a 20 ft tall, 1 ft diameter packed distillation column (Figure 1), complete with reboiler, pumps, holding tanks, fin fan, control valves, and Distributed Control System (DCS) control board.