The facilities available to SUNRISE's researchers and students are modern and extensive. A recently renovated laboratory in Harrington Hall is dedicated to SUNRISE members for use on common research projects. Although a portion of this laboratory is currently being used for collaborative SUNRISE projects, this laboratory, with approximately 3000 square feet, has open counter and hood space to accommodate new projects.

In addition to the dedicated SUNRISE laboratory, each department has its own space. Faculty in the Chemistry Department have research space in Abbott Hall, which houses over 28,000 square feet of laboratories, instrumentation rooms, and workshops for glass working, electronics, and machining. All of the space in Abbott Hall has been either newly constructed or renovated in the last decade. In 1992, a $3.5 million addition containing four new research laboratories was completed, and a $4.2 million renovation of the original building was completed in 1998. Chemical Engineering Faculty performs much of their research in Harrington Hall.

SUNRISE participants operate a variety of research equipment in their projects. Instruments commonly used include GCs, GC-MS, thermal desorption MS, FT-IR spectrometers, UV-Vis spectrometers, atomic absorption spectrometer, scanning electron microscopes, a 500-MHz NMR, inductively coupled plasma emission spectrometers, and quartz crystal microbalances. Computational research is conducted on several VAX and SGI workstations in the Chemistry Department. To maintain this wide array of equipment we employ several full-time technicians and carry service contracts for costly instrumentation and computers.

The Chemical Engineering Department offers a wide range of state-of-the-art bench- and pilot-scale facilities. Bench-scale equipment includes several biofilters, a photocatalytic oxidation cell, and fixed- and entrained-bed sorbent test reactors. Projects may involve the design and/or implementation of new test chambers for testing refractory corrosion and a fixed-bed system for testing mercury sorbents under reducing conditions.

The chemistry lab contains ten Dell Optiplex Gsa (Pentium) machines and ten Macintosh PPC G3 machines. The chemical engineering lab contains 10 Gateway P700 machines. All of the computer labs are fully networked and contain laser printers. All machines have software for word processing, data handling, graphing, and literature database searching. In addition, most research labs have one or more computers for student use.