Chemical Engineering & Processing Programs & Projects

NIST has developed a new pressure transfer standard capable of absolute-mode and differential-mode operation in the range of 100 Pa to 130 kPa. … more

Accurate determinations of pressure are required for diverse applications such as the altitude of aircraft, barometric pressure for weather … more

Piston gauges are used to calibrate customer piston gauges and pressure sensing devices.  Piston gauges are calibrated via a direct … more

Leak artifacts are calibrated in the range 1 x 10 -6 to 1 x 10 -13 mol/s (2 x 10 -2 to 2 x 10 -9 std. cm 3 /s at 0 °C). The calibration can be … more

Integrated circuits are made in reaction chambers, or process "tools", each of which receives gases from several mass flow controllers … more

Our goal is to develop combinatorial and high-throughput measurement approaches for rapid characterization of the structure and phase behavior of … more

Our goal is to develop measurement techniques to characterize the changes in thermal transport and thermal transition temperatures in polymeric … more

In striving to adhere to Moore's Law, the semiconductor industry is designing and using new metal-organic compounds. Precursor compounds … more

Thermophysical properties of gas mixtures containing water are important in several contexts, such as humidity standards and the design of … more

Complex fluids may be defined as mixtures in which there are many components, and in which the components span a range of physical and chemical … more

The Thermophysical Properties Division has begun a program to develop thermophysical property data for the biofuels. Transportation fuels will … more

NIST and the University of Colorado have been funded since April, 2006, by DARPA to develop a microcryocooler with a volume less than about 4 cm 3 … more

The Cryogenic Technologies Project has been funded by ONR since FY2005 to measure and model the losses in 4 K regenerators and pulse tubes. These … more

To develop the thermodynamic data and methodology required for effective bioprocess engineering.

There are a variety of tools for characterizing nanoscale morphology and structure, such as scanning probe, scanning electron, and transmission … more