A Virtual Unit Operations Laboratory

Authors

  • Patrick J. Fleming Johns Hopkins University
  • Michael E. Paulaitis Johns Hopkins University

Abstract

A virtual laboratory is now being created in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University that will feature real-time dynamic simulations of each experiment in our undergraduate unit operations laboratory course.  To date we have built, parameterized, and tested in-house a batch distillation column simulation model as the first experiment in the virtual laboratory.  We implemented a project using this simulation model in our Chemical Engineering Process Design course using a problem-based learning approach.

Author Biographies

Patrick J. Fleming, Johns Hopkins University

Patrick Fleming is Principal Research Scientist in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. His BA (1969) is from Kalamazoo College and his PhD (1975) is from the University of Michigan. His research interests include simulation of protein interactions and salvation and protein folding.

Michael E. Paulaitis, Johns Hopkins University

Michael Paulaitis is Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He holds degrees from Princeton University (BS, 1968), Stanford University (MS, 1970), and the University of Illinois (PhD, 1976). His research interests include chemical engineering thermodynamics, statistical/molecular thermodynamics, and molecular simulations.

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Published

2002-04-01

Issue

Vol. 36 No. 2 (2002): Spring 2002

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