The Department of Chemical Engineering has two undergraduate majors: Chemical Engineering and Technology and Energy Chemical Engineering. It possesses relatively complete instruments and equipment for oil properties analysis and quality testing and such large testing equipment as true-boiling-point distillation apparatus, high-pressure hydrogenation reactor, fixed fluidized bed reactor, fixed bed micro-reactor, cat-cracker for distillate oil, and micro-channel integrated nitrification reactor. The Petroleum Refining Engineering Technology Research Center built by the Department jointly with Changqing Petrochemical Company has relatively well-established conditions for the development of industrial catalytic processes, such as preparation, characterization, and evaluation of catalysts. In recent years, teachers of the Department has published more than 160 teaching and scientific research papers, more than 50 of which are included in SCI, EI, and ISTP, and 7 textbooks and monographs, among which 2 have won the Excellent Textbook Award above the provincial and ministerial level and 3 have been listed as textbooks in the 12th Five-Year Plan for regular higher education. They have also won 2 Grand Prizes of Provincial and Ministerial Teaching Achievement Award, 5 Provincial and Ministerial Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards, and 5 Bureau-level and Departmental Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards. The Department has formed stable characteristic research directions in the design, optimization, and control of micro-chemical reactor, process development and technical transformation of oil-refining and chemical engineering plants, process simulation optimization & energy conservation and consumption reduction, development and application of new catalytic materials, and green chemical industry and waste recycling.
