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Fall 2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
Fall 2025 Undergraduate Catalog

CME 310 - Chemical Engineering Laboratory I: Unit Operation Fundamentals


Introduction to general rules and safety in chemical engineering laboratory. Accuracy and precision of instruments; experimental error; error propagation and significant figures. Unit components: pipe, tubing, fittings, valves, pressure gauges and flowmeters. Practical applications of theories: compressed gas setup (equations of state) and Reynolds experiment (fluid dynamics). Operation of positive displacement and centrifugal pumps. Design of experimental setup.

3 credits

Prerequisite(s): CME 314  and CHE 383  or CHE 327  

Corequisite(s): CME 300  

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