Hands on education is difficult to teach in chemical engineering. Pilot scale reactors and distillation columns are expensive and many universities are unable to afford them when starting a chemical engineering program and students getting time with this equipment in a laboratory can be difficult even when the university can afford it. With many universities going online in the Fall 2020 Semester due to COVID-19, engineering labs are forced to go online to allow students to interact with dynamic engineering systems.

A design project is carried out throughout the final year of chemical engineering. Our design project was focused on treatment of cyanide leaching solution using SART and INCO/Air processes. The capstone group consists of 8 members; Kiavash Bakrani, Satvik Chandar, Vishnu Jayprakash, Alex Li, Jaideep Mullick, Vitorio Sambatti, Adam Wiebe, and myself. This project is an expansion of a sponsored project by NORAM Engineers and Constructors to create high purity sulphur dioxide & recieved the APSC Innovation and Design Project Award.

As part of E-Week one of the competetions is to create a model that represents your faculty, and these are shown off during Old Red New Red. To Represent Chemical Engineering I built and designed a simple two tank system with motorized ball valves that opens and closes based off certain inputs. A simple acid-base reaction is carried out if the answer is input to be correct, and if not “untreated effluent” is dispensed.