Our teaching facilities

Our laboratories are dedicated to undergraduate teaching. State-of-the-art facilities include:

  • Multi-functional continuous distillation units
  • Rising film evaporation units 
  • Absorption units 
  • Process control engineering experimentation plant 
  • Thermofluid rig 
  • Bioethanol production unit 
  • Catalytic reaction units

Our research facilities

Our communal research laboratories provide an extensive range of state-of-the-art facilities for sample preparation, materials characterisation, elemental analysis, heterogeneous catalysis. Some examples of our high quality research equipment include:

  • Scanning Electron Microscopy/Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (SEM/EDX)
  • Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS) 
  • X-ray Diffraction (XRD) Analyzer 
  • Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrum (ICP-MS) 
  • Electrochemical Workstation 
  • Drop Tube Furnace 
  • Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactor 
  • In Situ Infrared Spectroscopy 
  • Low temperature ashing device 
  • Thermal Gravimetric Analysis – Differential Scanning Calorimetry (TGA-DSC) 
  • Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) 
  • Liquid Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS) 
  • Malvern Particle Sizer 
  • Rheometer 
  • BET Surface Area Analyser 
  • Agilent GC 
  • Shimazdu GC