The UIC Department of Chemical Engineering offers outstanding, well-balanced consulting and development services. We are well known in disciplines such as fluid mechanics, catalysis, and combustion and molecular modeling. In order to address the emerging industry challenges of national and international importance, we are able to provide services in three major interdisciplinary areas:
Nanotechnology, Computing and Information Technology, and Infrastructure and
Energy/Environmental Technologies. We are also very proud of our state-of-theart research laboratories, and our computational and experimental facilities.
TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
The Chemical Engineering Department has the capability and resources to provide industry support in the following interdisciplinary areas.
Multiscale Computer Simulation of Complex Materials and Nanostructures
The Department of Chemical Engineering is a focal point of computational and theoretical research in transport phenomena of systems with complex structures.
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INTEGRATED COMPUTATIONAL METHODOLOGY
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COMPLEX FLUIDS AND STRUCTURES
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Catalysis and Surface Science
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Cluster Catalysis
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Microelectronic materials and processing
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Catalyst Preparation
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Process Modeling and Design
The department is applying the tools of chemical engineering to model and design processes from length scales of nanometers to large plant operations.
Some of the most exciting and relevant research develops new processes that are faster, better, cheaper, sustainable and environmentally benign.
Applications range from biomedical to industrial.
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Modeling of Complex Fluids in Complex Flows
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CONTACT INFO
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Advanced Materials Research Laboratory
Microelectronic Materials and Processing
This lab specializes in the properties and structures as well as the development of new materials and processes. Objectives include novel substrate surface cleaning techniques, kinetics and surface chemistry of reaction processes on silicon substrate surfaces, controlled production of thin heterostructure layers, and design of new material systems for fabrication of group IV-based optical, electronic and micro-electro-mechanical systems.
Heterogeneous Catalysis and Surface Chemistry
The thrust of this group is the emergence of a basic new understanding of several key catalytic processes on transition metal and other surfaces at high gas pressures. Time-resolved in situ surface-enhanced Raman spectra of adsorbed species on a subsecond/seconds time scale coupled with in situ infrared spectra, reaction rate measurements in transient experiments (with or without isotopes) and ex situ spectroscopic information are used to obtain hitherto unavailable information concerning the nature, role and kinetic significance of reaction intermediates and adsorbed species in heterogeneous catalytic systems at high gas pressures.
Laboratory for Product and Process Design
The main objective is the development of new methodological approaches for the advancement of central chemical engineering problems, such as:
Design of chemicals with desired properties,
Synthesis and assessment of chemical processes with ecological considerations,
Analysis and optimization of the steady state and dynamic behavior of existing processes.
Molecular Simulations Laboratory
The goal of the Laboratory is to study, at the molecular level, various processes related to chemical engineering. In particular, membrane separations and droplet formation.
Rheology Laboratory
We would categorize our lab work as Experimental analysis and Simulation studies.
Experimental Analysis:

We have been working on studying the flow behaviors of polymers in different kind of flow situations. Current investigations are in the field of Stagnation flow analysis. We use state-of-the-art Laser Doppler Velocimeter for measuring instantaneous velocities at any point in the measurement cell.
Thermodynamics Research Laboratory dedicated to molecular based study of fluids, solids and phase transitions in macro and nano systems:
NanoBioTechnology: Protein-Nanoparticle Clustering.
Statistical mechanics and thermodynamics of complex systems:
Molecular based study of condensed matter in small systems (Principles of nanotechnology)
Molecular approach to heavy organics (Asphaltene,resin, diamondoids,...) characterization and deposition from petroleum fluids
Molecular approach to supercritical fluids, supercritical fluid extraction and retrograde condensation
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Center for Innovation in the Chemical Industry (CICI)
In order meet the challenges of the 21st Century there is an urgent need to renew the technologies of the chemical industry and start another century of innovation. With innovation and a renewal of primary chemical processes in the chemical and energy sector as the goal, a Center for Innovation in Chemical Industry (CICI) has been established at the UIC.
The basic philosophy of the center is to gather a group of highly talented and skilled research and development scientists/engineers to fuel innovation and help power performance and growth in the refinery and chemical industries. The creative energies of the center focus on increasing efficiencies, solving business challenges by lowering costs and producing products with greater value. This is accomplished via process integration, process intensification and miniaturization, and distributed production.
In the current competitive business environment, it is no longer possible for every business to carry out all the fundamental and applied research needed to develop such innovative technologies.
Partnerships via the center fill a crucial need to approach technology innovation more efficiently and economically thus avoiding costly duplication in efforts. This partnership enables the chemical and oil industries to share technical risks, costs, and talents with others that have complementary capabilities .
Laser Doppler Velocimeter