Department of Chemical Engineering College of Engineering
Florida A&M University		Florida State University

Support Apparatus

For most of the experiments in this lab, supporting components are implimented. This is usually for the purpose of data analysis or sample preparation.

This page is broken down into the following catagories. Please browse at your lesiure. Most of the sections have links to equipment information or manufacturers websites.

1. Conductivity Measurement
2. Gas Chromatography
3. Mass Measurment
4. Oxygen Sensors
5. Rotational Measurement
6. Temperature Measurement

1 Conductivity Measurement

• Cole-Parmer 1500-10

  

• Oakton CON100. More information about this unit can be found here.

  

2 Gas Chromatography

Gas chromatographs are used in the Unit Operations Lab to determine the composition of samples from the Extraction and Distillation columns. There are three GC units in the lab, two of which are in use.

• Perkin-Elmer Sigma 2000.
  • Model 1022 controller.
  • Hewlett-Packard Deskjet 672C.

  

• Varian 3350.
  • SPB-35
  • 60 m
  • 9107
  • 0.75 ID
  • 1 µ M film thickness
  • Gateway 2000, Pentium 133.
  • Hewlett-Packard Deskjet 670C

3 Mass Measurment

There are several balances in place around the lab. All are electonic balances of varying accuracy and maximum load.

• Ohaus D10-00: Heavy Bench Scale. No longer made. Ohaus.
• Sartorius
  • Sartorius 1702
  • Sartorius Basic BA6100
  • Sartorius Laboratory
• Mettler PE 6000 : Made by Mettler .

These are used for many purposes including:

• Preparing samples of ethanol and heptane by mass to calibrate the response of the Gas Chromatographs.
• Determing the mass of a sample in a pcynometer to determine the dentisy of solution.
• Calibrating pumps by mass flow rate using a stopwatch.
• Weighing out samples to prepare solutions from dry chemicals.

4 Oxygen Sensors

The gas permeation experiments use oxygen sensors to determine the percentage of oxygen in the process streams. There are two different sensors used.

• Critikon 2000.

  

• Engineering Systems Designs Model 630. Specifications can be found here.

  

5 Rotational Measurement

The condensor experiment employs a Cole-Parmer 8204-00 Digital Tachometer.

6 Temperature Measurement

Thermalcouples are used in most of the experiments in the Unit Operations Lab to measure operational temperature. We have 5 Omega HH21 digital thermometers in use.

More information on these devices can be found here on Omega's Temperature Measurement Device page.

Please direct all inquiries to:
decoteau@eng.fsu.edu

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