These consist

• Level 1 Chemical Engineering Laboratory
• Level 2 Unit Operations Laboratory
• Levels 3 and 4 Research Project Laboratories.

The Level 1 laboratory comprises  of twenty-two bench-scale experiments which provide experience in measuring and estimating data relating to various aspects of basic Process Engineering. Examples include: determining the efficiency profile of a pump; behaviour of a gas fluidised bed; gas calorimetry; vapour pressure as a function of temperature (Ramsay-Young experiment); mixing in flow-through stirred vessels; distillation of toluene solutions; the drying of solids the nature of fluid flow and the dynamic response of sensors.

The level 2 laboratory contains fifteen pilot-scale rigs, which cover a wide range on unit operations. The following experiments are provided: Climbing film evaporator; liquid fluidisation; bubble-cap distillation column; water cooling tower; gas-liquid finned heat exchanger; air duct; combustion unit (pilot 100 kW scale); process control; pipe flow; mechanical heat pump; forced circulation evaporator; packed distillation column; liquid mixing; liquid-liquid heat transfer

For levels 3 and 4 research projects the students are provided with workspace in the recently refurbished Centre for Complex Fluids Processing Laboratories  within the Multidisciplinary Nanotechnology Centre.

Examples of equipment employed during undergraduate study in the characterisation and study of processes include atomic force microscopy, fermentation rigs, particle characterisation, surface plasmon resonance; hydrodynamic shear adhesion assays; membrane separation rigs and rheometers. The design projects of level 3 and 4 are supported by design software (Aspen Tech)