The Department of Chemical Engineering of the Universitat de València is the body responsible for the PhD Program and belongs to the School Higher Technical Engineering (ETSEUV). The research laboratories of the different teams that make up this Doctoral Program belong to this Department. The Department of Chemical Engineering provides support to the Doctorate Program with :
- Human resources: 4 members of the administration staff and 4 members of the technical staff of the laboratory (all of them with part-time work in doctorate); and
- General services: provision of technical gases, compressed air and deionized water and distilled water to all research laboratories. It also has a well-stocked workshop commonly used for all research groups. The specific material resources of each research team are described below.
Laboratories and Seminars
- The Department of Chemical Engineering is equipped with its own research laboratories, with a total of about 630 m 2 divided into 11 spaces of 45-70 m 2. All the equipment described in the verification report continue to be operational, and in recent years new equipment has been acquired based on the new research projects that the groups have carried out. The laboratories are distributed in the following lines of investigation:
- Process development for the treatment and valorization of wastewater: 3 laboratories, 1 analytical instrumentation, another pilot plant and microbiology, and a third with a thermostat camera adapted for research in microalgae with pilot assemblies. As well as three pilot water purification equipment installed in the wastewater treatment station El Carraixet ( Alboraya, Valencia).
- Treatment of gaseous emissions. Production of biofuels and bioproducts: 3 laboratories, the first one of analytical instrumental, the second includes 2 pilot plants of bioreactors for air treatment and 5 sets of laboratory fermenters for solid waste processing, and the last one has instrumental specific for preparation of microbial culture.
- Experimental determination of thermodynamic properties: It has 1 laboratoriy with 3 equipment for the determination of thermodynamic equilibria with numerous laboratory instruments and associated analytical.
- Heterogeneous catalysis: It has 2 laboratories equipped with 4 complete equipment of catalytic assays in gas phase, and numerous instrumental and associated laboratory equipment.
- Polymer technology, electrochemistry and sustainability: It has 2 laboratories for the preparation, characterization and validation in separation processes and degradation studies of polymeric materials and composites, as well as units for supercritical extraction and atomization.
- The Department of Chemical Engineering has 1 free-use seminars and 4 shared offices to accommodate between 3 and 8 doctoral students, with the necessary basic equipment.
- Commercial alliances are available for the use of software dedicated to research: Matlab, Polymath , Mathcad , AutoCAD, Aspen Plus, Hysys , and access to databases ( Dortmunt Data Bank).
