Design of Unit Operations Laboratories

Abstract

DURING the summer of 1947, the author and R. K. Toner, both of Princeton University, were sent by that school on a tour of representative institutions teaching chemical engineering in order to study the construction of unit operations laboratories. The objective of the study was to lay the groundwork for an expansion of the undergraduate laboratory facilities at Princeton. Previous reports have been devoted to the construction and design of research laboratories ( 1 ), to the design of buildings for general instruction in chemical engineering ( 2 ), and to descriptions of new buildings and facilities at individual institutions ( 3, 4, 5 ). This study is restricted, however, to the particular problem of facilities for undergraduate laboratory instruction in the unit operations of chemical engineering. In the course of the examination of the existing and proposed laboratories at more than 25 institutions in eastern, central, and western United States and Canada, sufficient information of general interest wa...