C. F. ZUKOSKI, Head
114 Roger Adams Laboratory, 600 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801
·217-333-3640
Research activities in the Department of Chemical Engineering explore fundamental phenomena at many length scales. While approached from a fundamental perspective, research problems are drawn from vital technologies. Principles of physics, mathematics, and chemistry are used as a basis for extending and interpreting experimental results. This scientific approach gives the engineering aspects of the research a solid background of theoretical understanding. Fields of current interest include interfacial phenomena, catalysis, solid-state physics, heat transfer, mass transfer, fluid mechanics, kinetics, high pressure studies, polymer studies, electrochemical engineering, corrosion, bioengineering, process dynamics, reactor design, thermodynamics, methods of applied mathematics, environmental engineering, colloidal processes, high-technology materials processing, and mathematical modeling.
The Department of Chemical Engineering is part of the Engineering Experiment Station and is in the School of Chemical Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Special research facilities available to the department include a time-shared digital computer for computer control of experiments, extensive shop facilities, including machine shop, glass shop, and electronics shop, modern spectroscopy laboratories for NMR, IR, UV, EPR, Raman, and mass spectroscopy, a microanalytical laboratory, and radiochemistry and radio isotope facilities.