School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

The School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering was founded in 1985. It is famous for outstanding academic environment and excellent education programs. A great number of renowned chemists and engineers have graduated from here since its establishment. Under the strong leadership of Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Prof. Luo PingYa, and thanks to the hardworking of all faculty members, The School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering nowadays has a complete system of higher education in chemistry and chemical engineering, offering academic degrees from bachelor to Ph.D. in a wide variety of research fields.

The School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering has a strong team of faculty members with diverse research interests and outstanding expertise. Among its 65 faculty members, there are 14 full professors among whom 3 are Ph.D. supervisors, and 19 associate professors (and research fellows). The faculty members have accomplished and are undertaking many key research programs through Sichuan Province or CNPC (China National Petroleum Corporation), with numerous creative research papers,textbooks and monographs being published. It has so far established research superiority in applied chemistry.

The undergraduate programs in the school include applied chemistry, chemical engineering and process technology, environmental engineering (including safety engineering), biochemical engineering and chemistry. On the level of graduate education, The School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering offers graduate programs leading to master degrees in various areas of chemistry and chemical engineering such as applied chemistry, chemical engineering, chemical technology, environmental engineering , industrial catalysis and biochemical engineering. The school also offers PH.D. programs in applied chemistry.

Programs Offered in Detail

Applied Chemistry:

The primary purpose of the specialty is to cultivate highly qualified scientists and engineers having knowledge of applied chemistry, petrochemical industry, and chemistry. They should be able to do scientific research, product & process design and technical administration and will get fundamental training on above areas. Graduates of this specialty have comprehensive knowledge of applied chemistry and hence have the ability to serve the fundamental industry with modern scientific technology of chemistry.

Courses Offered:

inorganic chemistry & analytical chemistry, instrumental analysis, organic chemistry, physical chemistry(including structural chemistry), the principle of chemical engineering, chemical drawing, polymer chemistry & physics, surface & colloid chemistry, organic synthesis organic spectrum, applied chemistry.

Occupation:

applied chemistry: applied chemistry of oil & gas field, chemicals’ analysis & monitoring, oil additions’ research, functional polymer & surfactant’s research development and production, oil field chemicals’ research development and production.

fine chemical material: fine organic chemicals’ research and production, fine polymer’s research and production, surfactant’s research and production.

environmental engineering: environment monitoring and environmental quality evaluation, prevention and control of water, gas, sound, solid waste pollution in town, environmental planning, design, construction, administration.

Chemical Engineering and Process Technology

It is a major to study the principle laws and popular technique for chemical production and process with the target to produce more and more chemical engineers and technicians. They can take up occupations in the fields of chemical industry, pharmacy industry, petrochemical industry and ā environmental engineering.

Courses Offered:

inorganic chemistry & analytical chemistry, instrumental analysis, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, the principle of chemical engineering, chemical drawing, chemical reaction engineering, chemical engineering thermodynamics, chemical separation processes, chemical systems engineering, natural gas processing, oil refining, principle of industry catalysis.

Occupation:

large-or-medium-scale chemical plant: synthetic ammonia, synthetic ethene, synthetic methyl alcohol, second product development, etc.

oil & gas processing: oil refining, oil-gas separation and processing, oil addictives, natural gas purification, light hydrocarbon recovery and deep-processing, natural gas liquefaction and distill nitrogen, etc.

environmental engineering: environment monitoring and environmental quality evaluation, prevention and control of water, gas, sound, solid waste pollution in town, environmental planning, design, construction, administration.

Environmental Engineering (including safety engineering)

The primary purpose of the specialty is to cultivate environmental scientists and engineers with a strong theoretical basis of environmental science, familiar with environmental analytic methods, able to apply new technologies, new methods, and new instruments to assay pollutants, and capable of controlling the environmental quality to make environmental evaluation, planning and management.

Courses Offered:

inorganic chemistry & analytical chemistry, instrumental analysis, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, the principle of chemical engineering, chemical drawināg, surveying, hydraulics and water pump, microbiologist of water treatment, water pollution control engineering, oil pollution control engineering, water and wastewater system, theory for prevention of combustion and explosion disasters, accident investigation and safety evaluation, safety management.

Occupation:

The students should work for a variety of departments of state such as planning, economic management, environment protection. Also they should work in design institute, industrial and mining enterprise, scientific institute and school for planning, designing, constructing, management, education, research, development, etc.

environmental engineering: environment monitoring and environmental quality evaluation, prevention and control of water, gas, sound, solid waste pollution in town,

environmental planning and management: water pollution controlling, planning and water resources protecting in town, chemical industry, oil field.

Safety engineering: safety management and evaluation of the enterprises which product, market, deposit dangerous chemicals.

Biochemical Engineering

This major covers subjects of chemical, biological technology, chemical engineering and pharmacy engineering. Students are expected to have a systemic mastery of basic principle of current bioengineering, basic knowledge and basic skills. They can take up occupations in the fields of biological technology and engineering industry, pharmacy industry, petrochemical industry and environmental engineering.

Courses offered:

biochemistry, microbiology, bioreaction engineering, bioseperation engineering, fermentation engineering, molecular biology, biotechnology in petroleum exploitation and processing, pharmaceutical analysis and drug preparation engineering.

Occupation:

pharmaceutical engineering: drug preparation, pharmaceutical analysis, pharmaceutical product and pharmaceutical intermediate preparation;

food engineering: fermentation engineering, microbiology, food inspection

bioengineering: aminophenol and antibiotic preparation, biologic oil extraction and environmental bioremediation of oil gas field.

The External Service Items of the School

Researches of the manufacture and applied technology on oil field chemicals
The studying technology of oil breeds
The synthesis and applied technology of water-soluble polymer materias
The synthesis and applied technology of surfactants.
The disposal technology of water, gas, noise and solid waste.
The pretreatment and process technology of the oil and natural gas.
The material design of mix and plug up water.
The component design of the acidification and crack work fluid.

Director:Professor Huang Zhiyu
Address:School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University Xindu Road 8#, Xindu District, Chendu City, Sichuan Province，P.R.C.(610500)
Tel & Fax:86-28-83034281
E-mail:jasmines_lin@yahoo.com.cn