College of Engineering

These labs focus on different aspects related to Chemical Engineering such as unit operation, environmental and water, materials, corrosion, oil, fluid flow, heat transfer, reaction engineering, and process control.

Corrosion Laboratory

The Corrosion Laboratory is used to investigate corrosion of metals in different chemicals in harsh environment and the effect of inhibitors on the corrosion rate.

Valuable for

• All chemical industries and especially oil and gas industries from production to refining processes.

• It can also be used to solve problems related to metal corrosion in different industries.

Testing available:

• Norwood Corrosion and Cathodic Protection Apparatus

• Electrochemical cells

• Gill AC electrochemical equipment. The techniques available with the Gill AC equipment and software allow the investigators to run nearly all corrosion tests. They are able to perform tests such as linear polarization resistance (LPR), cyclic sweeps, AC electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), potentiostatic, galvanostatic, galvanic, current and voltage noise

• Weight loss measurements

• Cathodic protection technique ( Which can show the expected life of the sacrificial anode in different environment All the above tests can be performed at room temperature, but in some cases it could be for higher temperature.

Environmental and Water Laboratory

 Valuable for:

• educational institutions interested in raining lab instructors or lab technicians

• institutions that may not have the acility for conducting such experiments

• all water and wastewater treatment ompanies

 Testing available:

• Colorimeter.

• Ultrasound cleaner

• UV spectrophotometer tests

• On line GC analyzer for water lab

• Incubator for BOD.

• Conductivity meter, PH meter, COD meter, TSS, Turbidity, TDS.

• Liquid diffusion units / diffusivity meter

• Deionizer Unit for water.

• Water and sediment test

• Airpolution analyzer 

Fluid Mechanics Laboratory

 Valuable for:

• educational institutions interested in training lab instructors or lab technicians

• institutions that may not have the facility for conducting such experiments 

 Testing available:

• flow visualization

• Energy Conservation ,Continuity and momentum verifications

• velocity profile determination

• Head/flow rate plots

• Determination of the lower and upper Critical Velocities and Reynolds Number.

• others

Heat Transfer Laboratory

 Valuable for:

• HVAC industry

• oil and gas industry

• other related industries to the study of heat transfer problems and its applications

 Testing available:

• Colorimeter.

• Ultrasound cleaner

• UV spectrophotometer tests

• On line GC analyzer for water lab

• Incubator for BOD.

• Conductivity meter, PH meter, COD meter, TSS, Turbidity, TDS.

• Liquid diffusion units / diffusivity meter

• Deionizer Unit for water.

• Water and sediment test

• Airpolution analyzer

Petroleum Laboratory

The petroleum laboratory is used to evaluate crude oil and oil products.

 Valuable for:

• Oil and gas industries, oil service companies, and biofuel industries

• Educational institutions interested in training lab instructors or lab technicians

• Institutions that may not have the facility for conducting such experiments

• Solving real problems related to oil and biofuel industries.

 Testing available:

• ASTM Distillation Characteristic of crude oil and oil products

• Dynamic and kinematic viscosities at different temperatures ( Ostwald viscometers)

• Conradson Carbon Residue

• Ash and Sulfated Ash

• Asphaltene content( heptane insoluble)

• Vapor pressure of light oil products

• Flash point

• Heat of combustion

• Sulfur Content using Energy X-ray florescence

• Metal content in oil products

• Water and sediment

• Salt Content

• Aniline point and diesel index

Process Control Laboratory

 Valuable for:

• educational institutions in training lab instructors or lab technicians

• institutions that may not have the facility for conducting such experiments

Other Labs:

The following available labs are for educational purposes and it may also use to solve some industrial problems as required.

• Reaction Engineering Laboratory

• Fluid flow Laboratory

• Unit operation Laboratory