Supercritical High-Gravity Flash Evaporation Educational Unit Operations Pilot Plant

The Supercritical High-Gravity Flash Evaporation Process Educational Unit Operations Pilot Plant is a bench-scale, integrated teaching system designed to demonstrate advanced separation, mass transfer, and process intensification principles. By combining heating, chemical reaction, high-gravity flash separation, and material collection into a single, cohesive unit, this pilot plant allows engineering students to observe and analyze complex physical and chemical transformations. The system bridges the gap between theoretical calculations and physical process engineering, making it an asset for modern engineering laboratories.

To accommodate varying laboratory spaces and diverse curriculum requirements, this pilot plant features a modular design that supports extensive customization. Both hardware elements—such as vessel capacities, sensor ranges, and physical layout—and software control protocols can be customized to align with your specific academic syllabi and institutional research goals.

Key Teaching Functions and Advantages

• Integrated Process Visualization: High-borosilicate transparent glass sections allow students to visually monitor phase changes, fluid dynamics, and flash separation in real time.
• Process Intensification Demonstration: The integrated motorized, magnetic-drive high-gravity unit demonstrates how centrifugal force enhances mass transfer and mixing efficiency compared to conventional gravity-based columns.
• Industrial-Grade Materials: Constructed with corrosion-resistant Stainless Steel 316L, ensuring durability and compatibility with a wide range of test fluids and process conditions.
• Comprehensive Process Safety: Real-time temperature and pressure monitoring systems, coupled with automated alarm and shutdown protocols, protect students and equipment during operation.
• Digital Data Acquisition: A 15.6-inch touchscreen interface with integrated 5G and Bluetooth connectivity enables real-time data logging, automated control, and cloud-based data storage for post-experiment analysis.

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Experimental Modules and Curriculum Mapping

This pilot plant is designed to directly support core coursework in chemical engineering, environmental technology, and process design. The table below outlines the specific experimental modules available and how they map to fundamental concepts found in standard engineering curricula.

Academic Fields and Curriculum Alignment

The Supercritical High-Gravity Flash Evaporation Process Educational Unit Operations Pilot Plant serves multiple engineering disciplines, allowing departments to maximize their laboratory investment across different courses:

• Chemical Engineering: The unit functions as a physical representation of the separation and mass transfer topics covered in Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering. Students can transition from solving theoretical flash distillation problems on paper to operating a physical flash separation loop, analyzing the differences between ideal models and real-world efficiency.
• Environmental and Bioprocess Engineering: By demonstrating solvent recovery, phase separation, and process intensification, the equipment aligns with wastewater treatment, resource recovery, and clean technology concepts detailed in Transport Processes and Unit Operations.
• Process Plant Design: Instructors can utilize the system's instrumentation, piping layout, and automated safety systems to teach hazard and operability (HAZOP) studies and plant layout principles, as studied in Chemical Engineering Design.

To ensure the equipment remains a relevant asset as academic requirements evolve, both the hardware configurations and software control systems can be updated and customized. This open architecture allows institutions to adapt the pilot plant to new research directions, emerging engineering standards, or updated teaching curricula over time.

About LABPARK

LABPARK has been dedicated to serving the global higher education sector for over 20 years, focusing on delivering engineering training equipment and customized laboratory solutions. We specialize in developing systems for six key academic disciplines: chemistry, chemical engineering, biology, food science, pharmacy, and environmental engineering. Our commitment to educational excellence and engineering precision is backed by 209 technical patents and a state-of-the-art 49,000-square-meter production and R&D base.

To date, LABPARK has partnered with more than 289 universities and colleges worldwide, helping educators build safe, modern, and effective laboratory environments. By aligning our equipment with internationally recognized engineering curricula, we help institutions prepare the next generation of engineers with hands-on, practical expertise.

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