INFORMATION
Address: 107 Deligiorgi Str., Bld of Industrial Management & Technology, 1st floor
Phone: +30 210 414 2360, 2368
MEMBERS
Director
Faculty
Laboratory Teaching Staff
Postdoctoral Fellow
DESCRIPTION
The Laboratory of Simulation of Industrial Processes (LSIP) supports:
- Educational activities of the undergraduate and postgraduate program of our Department.
- Research activities on:
- Industrial processes and natural resources management
- product design of chemical technology and biotechnology products
- Activities linking educational/research projects with applications that interest industrial units, public sector or privet sector.
The LSIP has been established by the P.D. 231 FEK 213/vol.Α’ /13-9-2002. It is one of the most well-organized Laboratories in Greece, as regards laboratory equipment, experienced stuff and in situ measurements using portable devices.
The Laboratory is appropriately equipped to support he educational and research needs in the sectors of:
- experimental and computational simulation and optimization of industrial processes
- integration of the processes found in the Greek industrial branches
- design and development of metrological systems that monitor industrial and environmental processes
- design and development of biotechnological products
- scale up from laboratory to industrial scale and vice versa (scale down)
- prototyping and standardization of production methods for products and metrological devices
- design and development of expert systems for real time monitoring, online or offline.
- evaluation and selection of product development technologies.
- the basic Science supporting all the above.
LABORATORY EQUIPMENT
Basic equipment
- Batch reactor (autoclave) 3,75 L. Fully automatic and controlled by PC used for lignocellulosic biomass treatment.
- Biosensors. Electrochemical system in laboratory scale: 2 electrodes, Κeithley voltage source, Κeithley electrometer, Faraday cage. Used for development of micro- and nano- sensors.
- Batch glass reactors 500 mL and 20 L for scale up.
- Metallurgical microscope.
- Adsorption columns with bed depth of15cm, 25cm, 75cm and 150cm. Used for scale up, with laboratory scale pumps.
- Refinery column with plates and reflux ratio valve controlled by a PC.
- Ball milland particle size distribution measuring system used sieves.
- Spectrophotometer UV/VIS and Spectrophotometer VIS.
- Portable exhaustion gases analyzers.
- High temperature oven for pyrolysis and torrefaction of biomass and nitrogen atmosphere generator with molecular sieves.
- Gas Chromatography, GC.
- High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) fully controlled by PC.
- Continuous Flow Stirred Tank Reactor, CFSTR.
- Plug Flow Reactor (PFR). Continuous flow.
- Leaching systems.
- Extraction systems.
- Electroplating systems.
- Batch drying system.
- ROTAVAPOR (vacuum refinery system).
Also pH-meters, DO meters, ion meters, sound meters etc. Capability of electrodes and graphene nanoelectrodes production.
Software
Open access software, ArcGIS (Geographical Information System, GIS), Global Positioning System (GPS), databases.
Software for recording, storing and computing electrochemical signals, for simulation and optimization of industrial processes, analysis of environmental parameters, maps construction etc.
COURSES SUPPORTED BY THE LABORATORY
Undergraduate courses
- Introduction to physical sciences (1st sem.)
- Processes Ι (2nd sem.)
- Processes ΙΙ (3rd sem.)
- Natural resources management & environment (7th sem. elective)
- Biotechnology (8th sem. elective)
- Environmental protection technologies (8th sem. elective)
Postgraduate courses
- Land and water pollution
- Solid waste management and recycling
- Alternative fuels
- Renewable energy sources (RES)
- Systems and tools of environmental management
- Climatic change and atmospheric pollution
- Wastewater management
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
- Experimental and computational simulation of industrial processes with emphasis on chemical processes.
- Economo-technical analysis of industrial branches with emphasis on organic branches.
- Renewable energy sources (RES) with emphasis on biomass for energy and materials
- GIS aided natural resources management with emphasis on environment and industrial exploitation of agricultural products and byproducts.
- Use of biomass for low cost adsorbents production.
- Design and development of measurement systems of electrochemical biosensors.
- Design and development of expert systems for real time monitoring, online and offline.
- Design and development and standardization of biotechnological products.
- Technology evaluation and scale up.
RESEARCH COOPERATION
- Chemical Engineering Laboratories, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
- Chemical Engineering and Material Sciences Laboratories, University of Minnesota, USA
- Laboratory of Biomagnetic Techniques, Institute of Systems Biology and Ecology, Czech Republic
- Materials Science Institute of Democritus.
- Dept. Chemical Engineering, NTUA.
- Dept. Chemistry, Athens Univ.
- Dept. de Engenharia Quνmica e Biologica, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Universidade de Coimbra
- Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de Alimentos (IATA), Paterna (Valencia), Spain
RESEARCH PROJECTS
2011-15: THALIS – University Of Piraeus – Development Of New Material From Waste Biomass For Hydrocarbons Adsorption In Aquatic Environments.” MIS: 377356. Research project co-financed by the European Union (European Social Fund – ESF) and Greek national funds through the Operational Program “Education and Lifelong Learning” of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) – Research Funding Program.
2010: “Rational Design of Innovative Catalytic Technologies for Biomass Derivative Utilization”. University of Minnesota by Professor Michael Tsapatsis (Amundson Chair, Head of the Research Group, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science). FUND 3014, Project 00006021, USA. Sabbatical, 11 January 2010 to 6 March 2010.
2008-10: “Testing Biomass – Cooperation with foreign Institutions for a research proposal”, Research Center of the University of Piraeus.