Research Infrastructure
•       ILUDEST  distillation column pilot plant for distillation of binary mixtures (fully  automated), with the following features: 30 bubble-type trays, 20 temperature  measuring points, 2 pressure measuring points, 2 flow measuring points,  continuous/discontinuous operation);
	•       Laboratory EMERSON AUTOMATION SOLUTIONS; Pilot plant with: measuring equipment (temperature, level, pressure, flow), final control elements (control valves), controllers (PID), safety, protection and signalizing, 12 workstations and DeltaV automation system software;
	•       Homogeneous  chemical reactor kit (batch reactor, plug flow reactor, stirred reactor, series  of CST reactors) with computer monitoring capability;
	  •       Gas-liquid absorption  kit with Raschig ring-filled column for the study of CO2 absorption in  water/base solutions;
	  •       Heterogeneous  gas-solid fixed, fluidized and circulating bed reactor kits for CO2 capture  with computer monitoring and control; Gas chromatograph; Laboratory niche;  Computer with modelling-simulation software (Matlab, ChemCAD, Aspen, COMSOL,  Thermoflex, etc.), internet connection, access to international databases;  Electric steam generator;
	  •       Pilot plants for  measuring process parameters, modelling transfer processes, testing control  algorithms;
	  •       Pilot plants:  continuous and batch reactors equipped with cooling/heating and stirring  system; reactor tanks; gas vessels, hydraulic networks;
	  •       Measurement and  control instrumentation: temperature, pressure, pH, flow, level transducers;  electronic controllers (REX F400), recorders, integrators, pneumatic actuators,  control valves;
	  •       Computing systems  connected to pilot plants;
	  •       Pilot plant in  circulating fluidized bed to study gas-solid carbon dioxide capture systems  using adsorbent materials. The plant is equipped with on-line gas analyser and  computer monitoring/control;
	  •       Fixed and  fluidized bed laboratory facilities for the study of gas-solid catalytic and  energy conversion systems using various oxygen carriers. The facilities are  equipped with on-line gas analyser as well as computer monitoring/control;
	  •       Laboratory  facility for studying gas-liquid absorption processes (e.g., determining  reaction rates, mass transfer coefficients, establishing mass balances,  studying hydrodynamic flow conditions, etc.); Utilities: water, methane gas,  compressed air, single and three-phase power supply, Internet connection;
	  •       Programming and  specific software: Visual C++, Visual Basic, Matlab, LabView, ChemCad, HYSYS,  ProII, Aspen, COMSOL, Thermoflex, GaBi; 
	  •       Computer networks  (three networks) equipped with specific software, including the possibility of  conducting remote virtual experiments;
	  •       Autolab PGSTAT 10  computer-aided electrochemical potentiostat/galvanostat, Ecochemie (The  Netherlands);
	  •       Autolab  PGSTAT302N computer-aided electrochemical potentiostat/galvanostat, Ecochemie  (The Netherlands); 
	  •       PAR 2273  (USA) computer-aided electrochemical potentiostat/galvanostat;
	  •       SP-150  computer-aided electrochemical potentiostat/galvanostat, Biologic (France);
	  •       VoltaLab 10  computer-aided electrochemical potentiostat/galvanostat;
	  •       Electrochemical  reactors equipped with rotating disk-ring electrodes, fixed disk-ring  ‘wall-jet’ fluid, planar electrodes, etc.
	  ICT facilities for students include:
	  •       Teaching laboratories equipped  with 50 computers connected to the Internet;
	  •       Basic software (Microsoft  Windows, MS Office) and specialized software (ChemWin, Chemcad, Aspen Plus,  PetroSIM, Matlab/Simulink, COMSOL Multiphysics, Labview, etc.) installed in the  teaching laboratories;
	  •       IBM Server Blade Center compute  node at faculty level, which can be expanded by connecting to BBU compute nodes  (5 blade chassis, each with 14 blades distributed in two racks, each blade has  2xQuadCore 4GHz CPUs, 2X160GB HDD, 4x2GB RAM, 3TB server storage, fibre-optic  connections between server and blade systems, UPS with back-up up to 36  minutes). Software including Gaussian'09, gamess, OpenMopac(2009/2007), NWChem,  orca (accessible on IBM HPC Cluster), Spartan06, G03W, and GaussView 4.1.;
	  •       Direct communication through  dedicated hardware equipment to the High Performance Computing Centre and the  Modelling, Optimization and Simulation Centre of the Disaster Management  Centre.

