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Chemical Engineering

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Year 4 · Semester 1 · choose 1 of 5

  • Ready to learn · Level 3 · 6 points

    Advanced Unit Operations and Membrane Separations

    Beyond binary distillation: azeotropes and batch stills, evaporators, crystallisers, adsorption cycles, dryers, and membrane transport and fouling, then how to combine them.

    Prerequisites: Separation Processes

    What you'll learn (8 topics)
    • Azeotropic, extractive and batch distillation
    • Evaporation and heat integration
    • Crystallisation
    • Fixed-bed adsorption cycles
    • Dryer design
    • Membrane transport and polarisation
    • Fouling, cleaning and cycle optimisation
    • Hybrid separation and intensification

  • Ready to learn · Level 3 · 6 points

    Advanced Reaction Engineering and Catalysis

    Beyond the ideal reactor: multiple steady states and runaway, heterogeneous catalysis and pore diffusion, catalyst ageing, multiphase and fluidised beds, and photo- and biocatalytic reactors.

    Prerequisites: Reaction Engineering

    What you'll learn (8 topics)
    • Multiplicity and stability of a cooled CSTR
    • Thermal runaway and reactive hazards
    • Unsteady non-isothermal reactors
    • Heterogeneous catalytic kinetics
    • Pore diffusion and falsified kinetics
    • Catalyst characterisation and deactivation
    • Multiphase and fluidised-bed reactors
    • Photocatalytic and biocatalytic reactors

  • Ready to learn · Level 3 · 6 points

    Polymer and Advanced Materials Engineering

    From chain to product: polymer architecture and networks, step- and chain-growth kinetics, molecular-weight distributions, thermal transitions, rheology, cure and processing, and nanocomposites and material selection.

    Prerequisites: Reaction Engineering

    What you'll learn (8 topics)
    • Polymer architecture and networks
    • Step-growth polymerisation
    • Free-radical chain growth
    • Molecular-weight distributions
    • Thermal transitions and morphology
    • Viscoelasticity and melt rheology
    • Cure and polymer processing
    • Nanocomposites and material selection

  • Ready to learn · Level 3 · 6 points

    Energy and Low-Carbon Process Technologies

    Energy and carbon accounting, combustion and low-carbon heat, hydrogen production, storage and carriers, carbon capture and utilisation, batteries, biomass and biorefineries, and the techno-economics of renewable integration.

    Prerequisites: no set prerequisites

    What you'll learn (8 topics)
    • Energy and carbon accounting
    • Combustion and low-carbon heat
    • Hydrogen production
    • Hydrogen storage and carriers
    • Carbon capture, utilisation and storage
    • Batteries and electrochemical storage
    • Biomass and biorefineries
    • Renewable integration and techno-economics

  • Ready to learn · Level 3 · 6 points

    Advanced Process Control and Data-Driven Process Engineering

    Multivariable gains and conditioning, model predictive control, real-time optimisation, soft sensors and state estimation, data analytics for processes, fault detection and monitoring, digital twins, and the economics of control projects.

    Prerequisites: no set prerequisites

    What you'll learn (8 topics)
    • Multivariable gains and conditioning
    • Model predictive control: moves and horizons
    • Real-time optimisation and constraints
    • Soft sensors and state estimation
    • Data analytics for process engineering
    • Fault detection and statistical monitoring
    • Digital twins and model-plant mismatch
    • Control performance and deployment economics

Year 4 · Semester 2 · choose 1 of 2

  • Ready to learn · Level 3 · 6 points

    Biochemical and Bioprocess Engineering

    From the cell to the purified product: growth and enzyme kinetics, bioreactors, oxygen transfer, scale-up, sterilisation and downstream processing.

    Prerequisites: Reaction Engineering

    What you'll learn (8 topics)
    • Cells and metabolism for engineers
    • Enzyme kinetics, inhibition and immobilisation
    • Growth kinetics, yields and stoichiometry
    • Batch, fed-batch and chemostat
    • Oxygen transfer and aeration
    • Bioreactor design and scale-up
    • Sterilisation and the Del factor
    • Downstream processing

  • Ready to learn · Level 3 · 6 points

    Food, Pharmaceutical and Bioproduct Process Engineering

    Food properties and water activity, thermal processing and sterilisation, refrigeration, freezing and shelf life, drying and evaporation, fermentation and brewing, pharmaceutical production and dosage forms, hygienic design and cleaning, and GMP validation and sampling.

    Prerequisites: Mass and Energy Balances, Process Simulation and Flowsheeting

    What you'll learn (8 topics)
    • Food properties and water activity
    • Thermal processing and sterilisation
    • Refrigeration, freezing and shelf life
    • Drying, evaporation and product design
    • Fermentation and brewing
    • Pharmaceutical production and dosage forms
    • Hygienic design, cleaning and food safety
    • GMP, validation and sampling