Republic of the Philippines

EASTERN VISAYAS STATE UNIVERSITY

College of Engineering
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Tacloban City

COMPILATION OF EXPERIMENTS
In

ChE 512L

(Chemical Engineering Laboratory 2)

Submitted by:

BSChE 5A BATCH 2016-2017

Submitted to:

ENGR. JUVYNEIL E. CARTEL

Course Instructor

In partial fulfillment of the requirements in

Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering

S.Y. 2016-2017
 RATIONALE

Totaling ten (10) predesigned laboratory experiments for Chemical Engineering

Laboratory II were performed in De La Salle University and Adamson University. The
conduct of these experiments provided us the opportunity to apply the theories learned to
hands-on practical experience.
Few of the equipment operated are cooling tower, tray drier, gas absorption column,
plug-flow tubular reactor, agitator etc. though are in small scale posed similar industrial
equipment functions, illustrating the standard process and operation with the practical
application of the theoretical concepts. Experiments were accomplished driven with
objectives and data gathered are processed to understand the concept behind through use
of formulas and logical analysis thus to further evaluate reliability of the experimental data
and validate theories. The degree of the acceptability of the experimental results were
influenced by different factors; such as conditions (temperature, pressure, flow rate,
humidity etc.), the type of material (s)/equipment used, the accuracy in determining the
concentration with the use of a device such as refractometer and the functioning condition
of the equipment. To achieve the optimum process and operation, these factors have to be
controlled and monitored otherwise failed experiment would result, as in Gas Absorption
the effects of increasing the flow rate would result to increased absorbed but flooding
has to be observed as this will likely to occur, in the case of the experiment in plug-flow
tubular reactor the degree of conversion was greatly influenced by given sets of conditions
(varying of flow rates and temperature) and the accuracy of the titration results to determine
the concentration at the end of the reaction and the like.
Laboratory experimental processes carried out in the ten listed laboratory
experiments covering the transfer of heat, separation processes, power requirement
calculation and principles of chemical reactions engineering aid on widening the
understanding on the various theories, improved knowledge on determining the factors
and how it affects, increased familiarization on equipment mechanism and usage and
widened understanding on underlying principles which can later be dealt with in
engineering works and problems emerged in the field of chemical engineering.

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GROUP 4 GROUP 6

JESSA CABALLA BRYAN GAYO

RHEA MAE BINAR LUZ LORETO
JOHN CARLA CONGE CARLITO MONASQUE JR.
REYNALDO LUYA JR. REYLVIZ PADAGDAG

GROUP 7 GROUP 8

HANNAH MAE GEPIGA SAMUEL ABIERTAS

MICAH MAE MORBOS KENT EDWARD ROBIN
RHEA OREVILLO CRISTINA SABALDAN
FLOILA JANE YMAS LERA MAY TIPOLO

ENGR. JUVYNEIL CARTEL

SUPERVISING FACULTY

GROUP 1 GROUP 2
SATURNINO ABUDA JR. ANDRADE, GELLI JOY B.
RODRIGO BAINO JR. CONDES, PHILIP JOHN
RALPH BALIBALITA TALACAY, ROCKY
JANE ALVAREZ

GROUP 3 GROUP 5
MIA NILDA BALITON CHRISTINE ENCINA
MARIEL CORDOVA LYNGIL DELACRUZ
DIAH GRACE DANO JAY-R FABROS
LYRIENE KEITH PINAS LOUISE HAYAHAY

GROUP 9
RUBEN VICUNA
RICK JASON, RANJO
WRENZO CANAMAQUE
GUIMBAOLIBOT JESSEIMAR

ENGR. ELVIRA DOLORES URGEL

SUPERVISING FACULTY

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Rationale 2

List of Students and Supervising Faculty 3

Title

Experiment No. 1: PRESSURE DROP AND GAS ABSORPTION 5

IN PACKED COLUMNS
Experiment No. 2: BINARY BATCH DISTILLATION 9
Experiment No. 3: SEDIMENTATION EXPERIMENT 13
Experiment No. 4: COOLING TOWER EXPERIMENT 17

Experiment No. 5: REACTION KINETICS EXPERIMENT

USING TUBULAR FLOW REACTOR 19
Experiment No. 6: FIRST STEP RESPONSE ORDER SYSTEM
(WITH OUT CONTROL) 26

Experiment No. 7: PROCESS CONTROL 29

Experiment No. 8: SIZE REDUCTION & PARTICLE SIZE
MEASUREMENT BY SCREEN ANALYSIS 33
Experiment No. 9: POWER REQUIREMENT FOR AGITATION 41
Experiment No. 10: DRYING CURVES 45

REFERENCES 50

APPENDICES

I. Experiment Raw Data 52

II. Calculations 71
III. Documentation 88