Virtual Laboratories / Digital Experiments
Virtual Laboratories
These are browser-based virtual laboratories (VLs). The Catalytic Laboratory is a complete laboratory that can be run similar to a physical laboratory. Students can plan experiments, collect and analyze data, and write laboratory reports. Each student or student group has different values for the parameters that are attempting to obtain by collecting data. This laboratory has extensive written documentation plus screencasts. The Single-Stage Distillation Column Virtual Laboratory can be used as a laboratory or course project; it has a series of screencast instructions.
Virtual Catalytic Laboratory
prepared by Neil Hendren and John L. Falconer
Control of a Single-Stage Distillation Column Virtual Laboratory
prepared by Neil Hendren and Scott Rowe
Vapor - Liquid Equilibrium Virtual Laboratory
prepared by Neil Hendren and John L. Falconer
Other interactive simulations, although not prepared as VLs, could be used as VLs. Students can use these simulations to generate data, which can be analyzed, and reports can be written. For example, the separations “Multi-stage Batch Distillation” simulation could serve as the basis for a VL.
Read about the Virtual Catalytic Reactor Laboratory:
J. L. Falconer and N. Hendren, Virtual Catalytic Reactor Laboratory, Chemical Engineering Education 55, 183-188 (2021). https://doi.org/10.18260/2-1-370.660-126043
Digital Experiments
These digital experiments are designed to demonstrate important topics in chemical engineering. They can be used in class with students working in groups or as assignments. Please email us with comments.
Heat Transfer
These digital experiments were created to match Low-Cost Desktop Learning Modules made at Washington State University.
Cross-flow Heat Exchanger
prepared by Drew Smith and John L. Falconer
Double Pipe Heat Exchanger
prepared by Drew Smith and John L. Falconer
Evaporative Cooling
prepared by Neil Hendren and John L. Falconer
Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger
prepared by Drew Smith and John L. Falconer
Fluid Mechanics
The first three fluids digital experiments were created to match Low-Cost Desktop Learning Modules made at Washington State University.
Fluidized Bed
prepared by Drew Smith and John L. Falconer
Hydraulic Loss in a Smooth Pipe
prepared by Neil Hendren and John L. Falconer
Venturi Meter
prepared by Neil Hendren and John L. Falconer
How Fast Does a Tank Empty?
prepared by Sanath Kavatooru and Ankur Gupta
Rising 3D-printed Quarter
prepared by Sanath Kavatooru and Ankur Gupta
Viscous Flow around a Rotating Rod
prepared by Sanath Kavatooru and Ankur Gupta
Viscous Flow in Two Connected Pipes
prepared by Sanath Kavatooru and Ankur Gupta
Material and Energy Balances / Thermodynamics / Separations
Adiabatic Flash Drum with Binary Liquid Feed
prepared by Neil Hendren and John L. Falconer
Adiabatic Gas Expansion between Two Tanks
prepared by Neil Hendren and John L. Falconer
Chemical Equilibrium in the Haber Process
prepared by Neil Hendren and John L. Falconer
Chemical Equilibrium N2O4 Dissociation
prepared by Sanath Kavatooru and John L. Falconer
Determine Antoine Constants
prepared by Neil Hendren and John L. Falconer
Mass and Mole Balances in a Reactor
prepared by Drew Smith, J. Will Medlin, and John L. Falconer
Material Balances in Liquid-Liquid Extraction
prepared by Sanath Kavatooru and John L. Falconer
Material Balances on a CSTR
prepared by Sanjay Baskaran and John L. Falconer
Measure Heat Capacity with a Calorimeter
prepared by Drew Smith and John L. Falconer
Ranque-Hilsch Vortex Tube
prepared by Neil Hendren and John L. Falconer
Reverse Osmosis
prepared by Jackson Dunlap and John L. Falconer
Stripping Column Material Balances
prepared by Sanath Kavatooru and John L. Falconer
Unsteady-State Mass Balances for 2-phase Ternary System
prepared by Sanath Kavatooru and J. Will Medlin
Unsteady-State Material Balances on a CVD Reactor
prepared by Sanath Kavatooru and J. Will Medlin