Research Facilities
The Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering has extensive research laboratory facilities located in the present College of Engineering building. Three undergraduate teaching laboratories, a design classroom, and twelve graduate research laboratories comprise the current physical resources. All laboratories are well equipped with modern experimental apparatus including numerous workstations and microcomputers for data acquisition and analysis. These facilities include laboratories dedicated to polymer science and engineering, electrochemical engineering, aerosol transport and deposition, batch process optimization and control operations, gas/liquid phase pollution treatment by non-thermal plasma, advanced fluid mechanics, bioengineering, and tissue engineering.
In addition, a large laboratory suite dedicated to nuclear magnetic resonance research includes a 500 MHz (12 Tesla) wide-bore, microimaging NMR spectrometer, and a larger bore, lower field NMR spectrometer for the study of larger scale biological samples.
A wide range of analytical equipment, including gas and liquid chromatographs, UV-Vis spectrophotometers, a chemiluminescence gas analyzer, aerosol particle measurement instrumentation, analytical microscopes, an FTIR spectrometer, potentiostats, a rotating disk electrode system, a hydraulic press for electrode fabrication, differential scanning calorimeters, and pH, conductivity, temperature, flow, pressure, mass and other measuring devices are located in these laboratories. Process equipment including various types of gas and liquid phase chemical reactors, controlled temperature fermentors, and polymer production reactors are also located in these laboratories. Infrastructure includes an autoclave, a controlled environment incubator, water polishing systems, refrigerated/heating circulating baths, isotemp ovens, high voltage power supplies, high purity gas production and mixing systems, a refrigerated centrifuge, a glassware cleaning device, and numerous additional support equipment.
In the area of computing capabilities, the department has numerous personal computers interconnected to the Colleges' computing network. MATLAB, MATHCAD, CHEMCAD, and other UNIX and PC-based programs are readily available to graduate students in their computational research. Extensive, high level computing capabilities are available to students and faculty through The Florida State University Academic Computing and Network Service (FSU ACNS) and School of Computational Science (SCS) through the College of Engineering network cluster. All students are given computer accounts allowing unlimited access to the Internet.
