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Chemistry (Poling Class) -- Elective Course Information
2020-04-29


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Frontiers of Chemistry 2-1

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The main goal of this course is to let students understand the frontier of chemistry, enhance students’ interest in chemistry learning, stimulate the students’ enthusiasm and passion for science. Lectures introduces the frontiers of chemistry, specifically including the frontiers of catalytic chemistry, material chemistry, chemical biology, energy chemistry and environmental chemistry, etc., and use of student teamwork approach to carry out literature search, summary and induction. The students are low grade students in university. By conducting this course, students’ scientific original and criticism consciousness are cultivated and students’ independent thinking, scientific questioning and scientific thinking skills are improved.

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Frontiers of Chemistry 2-2

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The course of "Frontiers of Chemistry (2-2)" introduces the current situation, development and frontier trends of various branches of chemistry by the academic leaders of various research fields of the college. The whole course include: inorganic chemistry frontier (two lectures), analytical chemistry frontier (one lecture), organic chemistry frontier (four lectures), polymer chemistry (three lectures), Energy Chemistry frontier (two lectures), supramolecular chemistry frontier (one lecture) and chemical biology frontier (one lecture). Through this course, students can realize the importantance and significance of chemistry in social development and national economy, and they can also understand the frontier and development trends of various branches of chemistry. In addition, the course may further cultivate and improve students' interest in chemistry learning, and define their own learning and endeavor direction.

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Chemistry Changed the World

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Designated Elective Course

This course is designed as a public elective course for students in chemistry college. It aims at popularizing elemetary knowledge of chemistry, so that students can understand the changes of chemistry accompanied with other factors of society. It improves students’ abilities to analyze and solve problems and construct scientific way of thinking.

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Quantum chemistry

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Designated Elective Course

Quantum chemistry applies quantum mechanics to address problems in chemistry. The influence of quantum chemistry is evident in all branches of chemistry. One application of quantum chemistry is the electronic behavior of atoms and molecules relative to their chemical reactivity. Quantum chemistry lies on the border between chemistry and physics. Thus, significant contributions have been made by scientists from both fields. It has a strong and active overlap with the field of atomic physics and molecular physics, as well as physical chemistry.

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Biochemistry

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Designated Elective Course

This course presents a comprehensive introduction the biochemical knowledge, such as the chemical composition, structure, and function of biological molecular in the organism, the metabolism of biological molecular, and the complex relationship between the phenomenon of life, to elucidate chemical nature of the phenomenon of life. Sophomores or junior of chemical specialty are the teaching object.

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Teaching Practice

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Designated Elective Course

The course is for the fundamental education of chemical industry and production, including the various chemical engineering unit operation and theory of the transition process and reaction engineering. The main contents are as follows:1, Chemical production safety education, labor protection and environment protection in the factory.2 Chemical process flowing, main unit operations and main equipments of the factory studied. Chemical engineering theory.3 Apply the Chemical engineering theory to the chemical production and various unit operations.4 Distillation theory and calaulations of the distillation tower.5 Basis of the chemical reaction engineering theory. The distribution of staying time in the reacter and Measurement of the chemical reaction dynamics.6 Report of Practice Teaching

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Comprehensive Chemistry Experiment 2-2

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Comprehensive Experiments in Chemistry was established in 1998 on the basis of the original inorganic chemistry laboratory, analytical chemical laboratory, the organic synthesis in the laboratory, organic analytical laboratory, physical chemistry laboratory, polymer chemistry-polymer physics laboratory, laboratory of catalysis laboratory.“Comprehensive Experiments in Chemistry” involves in inorganic chemistry, instrumental analysis, a plurality of organic chemistry, physical chemistry, polymer chemistry and physics, catalysis, material chemistry, computational chemistry, chemical biology and reflects its comprehensive and multidisciplinary property.

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Electroanalytical Chemistry

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Electroanalytical Chemistry is the application of electrochemistry to analytical chemistry. Electroanalytical chemistry is the branch of chemical analysis that employs electrochemical methods to obtain information related to the amounts, properties, and environments of chemical species. This course is the introduction to the concept and advances to modern electroanalytical chemistry.

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Advanced Organic Chemistry

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Through the study of """Advanced Organic Chemistry""" course, the students can master the description and expression of the organic reactions, as well as the determination of the organic reaction mechanisms. The students can utilize what they learned in the course, such as the stereochemistry, conformation analysis, isotope effects, linear free energy relationship and so on, to study the real reactions the encountered in scientific research. That is to say, they can apply the advanced organic chemistry knowledge to solve practical problems.

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Polymer Physics

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Polymer physics is a subject that focuses on the relationship between the structures and properties of polymers. Its heart is to understand such relationship by using the theory of thermal motion of the macromolecules. Therefore, the contents of the polymer structures, polymer properties, and macromolecular motion should be involved throughout this course.The contents of the course includes four main parts, i.e., the chain structures of the polymers, the aggregation structures of the polymers; the properties of polymer solutions and the determination of molecular weights and molecular mass-dispersities in the solutions, the macromolecular motion, and the mechanic properties of the polymers. In addition, the processing and molding of the polymer materials will also be briefly introduced.

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Specialized English in Chemistry

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This course is the further study of English in “chemistry field”. Students should be familiar with a lot of chemistry vocabularies, and the method to express chemistry in English. It is very important for a chemistry learner for good working in the joint venture company when graduate from college. And it is also very helpful for student to read papers in English, if students wan to go on to study for being a master or a doctor.

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Engineering Drafting

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Course Description: The course is for the fundamental education of chemical engineering drawing, including graphics language(Describe a shape mainly) and word language (Describe size, location and specification of the object). The main contents are as follows: 1 Projection methods and orthographic projection. 2 Traditional drawing tools and drawing standards. 3.Section views and kind of sections 4 Parts drawing. 5 Assembly drawing. 6 Chemical engineering special drawing.

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Introduction to Chemical Biology

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Chemical biology is a frontier interdisciplinary subject. By using integrated approaches with principles and experimental techniques drawn from both chemistry and biology, chemical biology strives to pursue biological discovery. This course provides a comprehensive survey of the past, the present, and the future of chemical biology, including major basic topics and frontier themes utilizing chemical techniques and principles in biology.

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Separation Technology in Pharmaceutical Analysis

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The separation is a science to study the separation, concentration and purification of substances. The separation science and technology is a key aspect in the analytical chemistry and play an indispensable function in all the chemistry-related areas. The course: Separation Technology in the Pharmaceutical Analysis” will introduce the knowledge of major separation technology in the current pharmaceutical analysis. Combining with the pharmaceutical applications, the separation principles and the technology will be introduced.

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Fundamental Computer Chemistry

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The aim of this course is to concisely explain the computational methods in chemical research. It consists of principles and software applications on chemical structural and spectral databases, chemical signal processing algorithms, molecular sketch building and optimizing, properties predicting, and drug design and discovery procedures.All lectures, homework and exams of this course are in English.This course fits students who are interested in chemical computation and computer application, and who likes to practice and improve English listening and speaking skills.

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Introduction to Quality Assurance

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The introduction to quality assurance covers the basic principles of quality assurance in analytical chemistry. The course introduces some important statistical tools employed in the intercomparison test, outlier test, interlaboratory test comparison, etc. The precision and accuracy, uncertainty, traceability, principle of sampling, method validation, control chart, and reference materials will be explored.

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Computational Chemistry

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As the rapid development of personal compute and the arising of quantum chemistry software packages, we can do molecular simulation or calculation in our classroom and lab, this will enable us obtain the electronic information of molecular. The research method is called computational chemistry, it can be used to calculate and predict the structure, property and function of molecular by simplify or idealize the chemistry system and process. This course is an introduction to the theory and method of computation chemistry.

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Introduction to Polymer Materials

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This course is for Chemistry, Materials chemistry and Boling Class undergraduate. This course can make the students master the basic principles of polymer materials, which help them to engage in researching or working in the fields of polymer materials in the future.

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Modern Method of Separation and Analysis

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This course is an introduction to fundamental theories and basic techniques of modern separation science, enabling undergraduate students to properly select separation modes and the operational conditionsand to apply chromatography to quantitative analysis.

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Bioanalytical Chemistry

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Bioanlytical chemistry covers various instrumental techniques and bioanalytical methods. These include: HPLC, electrophoresis, capillary electrophoresis, MALDI-TOF, ESI-MS, immunoassays, ELISAbiosensors, DNA arrays and pyrosequencing.

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Mathematical Statistics

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This course covers the probability theory and mathematical statistics with applications. Topics including basic probability theory, development of distributions, statistical estimation, hypothesis testing, nonparametric testing, and linear regression will be explored.

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Functional Coordination Chemistry

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In this course, the basic knowledge, steric chemistry, theory and electronic configuration of complexes are introduced. Especially, the applications of complexes and relative molecular materials on optics, electrics, magnetism and spin-transition are investigated, as well as the design, synthesis and characterization methods. The latest research reported by corresponding publications is introduced and discussed.This course is toward the undergraduate students of Grade I and II as well as graduate students of coordination chemistry.

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Software Development in Chemistry

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Software has been widely utilized as necessary tool for research in chemistry. This course is designed as a progressive object-oriented programming session using Visual C++ and MFC which provide professional application framework and data flow. It encourages students to create Windows applications with graphics user interface, including molecular structure editing and depicting, spectrum viewing with peak searching and integrating, and invoking other applications.

This course offers an opportunity for students who wants to practice C++ coding, to have a better understanding of thoughts in object-oriented designing and programming, by following the exercises of a series operations on molecular structure input and display, spectrum display and data processing, which will lead to an integrated Windows application eventually.

This course will greatly improve the students of thoughts and skills of object-oriented programming for chemical objects by data processing and depicting functions, connecting chemical theories with experiments and software tools.

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Foundation of Green Chemistry

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Green chemistry is the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances. Green chemistry is also known as Environmentally benign chemistry and Environmentally friendly chemistry. In the future, green chemistry is one of the important development orientations in the field of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.This course is for Chemistry, Materials chemistry, Molecular science engineeringChemical biology and Boling Class undergraduate.

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Theoretical and Computational Chemistry

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This course is composed of Interdisciplinary lectures from home and abroad experts on the fundamental principles of theoretical and computational chemistry, as well as the cutting-edge applications in catalysts, drug molecules and nano-materials. Quantum chemistry, molecular mechanics and dynamics, cheminformatics are introduced briefly with exercises on corresponding software packages.We aim to inspire the interest and to cultivate the ability of students in this field through oral presentation, discussion, experiments and review report.

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Cheminformatics

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Cheminformatics is a relatively new field of information technology that focuses on the collection, storage, analysis, and manipulation of chemical data. This course is intended to provide an introduction to the basic aspects of chemoinformatics, with particular emphasis on the retrieval method of chemical information. The course will mainly discuss the following subjects: (i) basic concept and theory of cheminformatics; (ii) chemical electronic / digital resources provided in Nankai University; (iii) strategy or skill for document retrieval based on database or internet resources for chemical reserach; (iv) softwares for chemical structure drawing, scientific data analysis & graphing, bibliographies management and publishing, etc..

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Chemical Information and Modeling

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This course is an elective course for undergraduates majoring in Chemistry. It includes the basic methods of signal processing and molecular simulation, the use of software, and basic programming.

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Bioinorganic Chemistry

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Bioinorganic chemistry is also called inorganic biochemistry or biocoordination chemistry. It is an interdisciplinary field of inorganic chemistry, biochemistry, medicine and other disciplines. It has been gradually formed since the 1960s. The object of study is the metal (and a few non-metal) elements and their compounds in organisms, especially the bio-complexes formed by trace metal elements and macromolecule ligands, such as various metalloenzymes, metalloproteins and so on. Emphasis is laid on the relationship between their structure-property-biological activity and the mechanism of their participation in the reaction in the living environment. In order to facilitate research, metal coordination compounds with certain physiological functions are synthesized by artificial simulation.

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Structure and Function of Biomacromolecule

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The structure and function of biological macromolecules is an important part of biochemistry research, and it is the basis of chemistry students' understanding of biochemistry. Through this course, students can understand the structure and function of biological macromolecules such as proteins, sugars and nucleic acids, and the experimental techniques commonly used in biomolecule research. At the same time, students can understand the forefront of biochemistry research, stimulate students 'innovative spirit, develop students' ability to acquire knowledge and use the theoretical knowledge to analyze problems and solve problems.

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Applied Computational Chemistry

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The course of applied computational chemistry aims to undergraduate students of grade three or grade four who have learned physical chemistry and structural chemistry knowledge. The course of applied computational chemistry will teach the basic principle, the main methodologies including molecular mechanics, ab initio, semiempirical, and density functional theory (DFT), and the various applications of computational chemistry in fields of organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, catalytic chemistry and supramolecular chemistry. The contents of each chapter fall into two classes: to test and reinforce the reader’s understanding, and to encourage deeper thought. All pivotal statements and examples are supported by original literature references that have been updated so far. All calculation examples serve to illustrate and to show the scope of various methods.

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Energy Catalytic Materials

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Nanoscale science and technology are experiencing a rapid development, and they are likely to have profound impact on every field of research in the first decade of the 21st century. Research in energy catalytic materials is a multidisciplinary effort that involves physicists, chemists, materials scientists, electrical engineers, biological and, possibly, medical scientists.It can be predicted that an upsurge of R&D on nanotechnology will soon come, and giving the course of nanomaterials to students is just in time.

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Modern Organic Synthesis

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As the core of organic chemistry, organic synthetic chemistry is the main means of developing new materials, and provides important technical support for the development of related material and medicine science. The purpose of this course is to teach students the history, influencing factors and application of organic reactions through the study of structures and properties of organic compounds on the basis of basic organic chemistry. Based on the understanding of organic reaction theory, students can use the knowledge they learned to solve organic chemistry problems and guide professional organic studies. The course provides students who are interested in organic chemistry with an opportunity to learn more about the latest advances in organic chemistry. It can enrich their knowledge and bridge the gap between traditional organic synthesis and the current developments in this area. Thus providing more assistance to students in further research direction selection, research career planning and employment choice.

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Mass Spectrometry

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The purpose of Mass Spectrometry course is to make students have free usage of mass spectrometry in resolving the practical problems in learning and scientific researches. The main contents include the basic structure of the mass spectrometer, the commonly-used ion source, the characteristics of the mass spectra from different ionization modes, the elemental compositions calculated from the isotope peak family, the major fragmentation mechanisms of the organic molecules, the interpretation of mass spectra of unknown compounds and the application examples of mass spectrometry. This course is for the senior third grade students major in chemistry. The Mass Spectrometry course allows students to master the relevant expertise in mass spectrometry, at the same time, to develop the students' innovative spirit and practical ability.

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Life Science and Modern Medicine

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The course “Life Science and Modern Medicine” involves chemistry, life science, modern medicine and pharmacy. The main content can be roughly divided into three parts: modern medicine/nucleic acids, pharmaceutics/proteins, nano-science/molecular machines, and brain science/artificial intelligence. In this course, chemistry is viewed as the foundational knowledge; the medical, pharmaceutical and brain science act as target of practical applications; other also comprise the genomics, bioinformatics, nanotechnology, immunology, nonlinear mathematics, artificial intelligence, etc. We try to widely expound the core concepts and advanced methodology of today science. Moreover, we also argue about some sensitive issues, such as human cloning, transgenic technology, Chinese medicine, homeotherapy, analeptic drug and so on. Each issue acts the common phenomenon of everyday life as a starting point, eventually extends to the deep principles and hypotheses of modern science, and to their development trend in recent years. The content of this course is is largely beyond the scope of the textbook. The so-called “knowledge of knowledge” (i.e. enhancing the ability of learning) is seen as the most important factor and knowledge itself as the secondary factor. The ultimate goal is to get enjoy from the learning process. Multimedia technique is used in the course. The realistic and vivid subject situations are exhibited by linking oral speech and literal expression with images, cartoons and videos. The speaker has taught similar courses and has been highly praised by his students.

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Organometallic Chemistry

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Organometallic chemistry is an interdisciplinary field of inorganic chemistry and organic chemistry. Its development has broken the boundaries between traditional organic chemistry and inorganic chemistry, and has become a new independent d discipline and frontiers of modern synthetic chemistry. Since the 90s of last century, chemical science is facing new challenges and opportunities that is to develop ideal synthetic chemistry which is harmless to human health and environment. An ideal synthetic chemistry requires the reactions with atomic economy and high selectivity. Organometallic chemistry a very important role in the ideal synthetic chemistry, and has recently become one of the hottest research topics in the world. The course will focus on the concept, the history of development, the basic principles and the research technique of organometallic chemistry, and also its application in the organic synthesis. The course will provide new knowledge of chemistry, make up the gap between traditional organic synthesis and modern organic chemistry, and help students understand the frontier in chemistry. And it will also provide new opportunities and helps to the students when they plan their future researches and jobs.

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Innovative Thinking in Chemistry

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This course is set for undergraduate students, to improve their understanding of researches on chemical science and the frontiers of various fields of chemistry, learn to find scientific problems and put forward innovative solutions, improve the interest and ability of innovation researches based on the Youth Teachers' Forum, Graduate Academic Forum and the other academic lectures held by the College of Chemistry.

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Fundamental Chemical Engineering

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The course is for the fundamental education of chemical engineering, including the various chemical engineering unit operation and theory of the transition process and reaction engineering. The main contents are as follows: 1, Fluid flowing and transportation, pump calculations. 2 Heat transition and heat exchanger, calculation and unit operation. 3 Mass transition and Fick Laws. 4 Distillation theory and calaulations of the distillation tower. 5 Basis of the chemical reaction engineering theory. 6 The distribution of staying time in the reacter and Measurement of the chemical reaction dynamics.

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Fundamental Experiment of Chemical Engineering

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The course is for the fundamental experiment education of chemical engineering, including the various chemical engineering unit operation and theory of the transition process and reaction engineering. The main experimentsare as follows: 1, Test of the resistance of the fluid flowing. 2 Test of the heat transition. 3 Test of the distillation with the distillation tower. 4 Measurement of the distribution of staying time in the reacter. 5 Measurement of the chemical reaction dynamics. 6 Test of nano-filtering of water.