Research in The Department of Chemical Engineering

The Department of Chemical Engineering is part of the single campus Faculty of Engineering with a commitment to providing national and regional service to the process industries. These industries include the full spectrum available in the Caribbean including petroleum and petrochemicals, bauxite, sugar and food-processing. The Units of Food Science & Technology and Petroleum Engineering are included in the Department of Chemical Engineering with specific remits to serve those industries.

The Department recognises the need to promote industrial linkages, applied research, fundamental research and the continuing education of persons in the relevant disciplines. The research efforts are essentially geared to the solving of problems relevant to the region as a whole.

Research in the Department of Chemical Engineering is aimed at the development of the indigenous resources of the Caribbean region. The broad areas of research in the Department are as follows:
* Agricultural Crop Processing
* Enhanced Oil Recovery
* Food Science & Technology
* Heavy Oil Recovery
* Industrial Pollution Control
* Mineral Processing
* Natural Gas Engineering
* Petroleum Processing Technology
* Process Design, Optimisation and Control
* Reaction Engineering
* Reservoir Engineering
* Sugar Technology
* Utilisation of Biomass

The Department offers programmes of study by research leading to
the MPhil and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering.