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Guide to choosing classesChemical Engineering

The following classes are available to exchange students studying in the Department of Chemical Engineering:

Semester 1 - Level 3

  • Class code: CP303
  • Level: 3
  • Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
  • Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, private study

Class descriptor

This class aims to help students understand basic material properties, mechanics and their importance in chemical engineering design. This class will teach the selection of appropriate materials based on their mechanical, electrical and thermal properties. Students should be able to understand some basic concepts related to material degradation and failure. Students should be able to understand the thermodynamic and kinetics basis for the corrosion of metals in aqueous solution and to use this information to select appropriate materials for chemical processing. This class will also provide an understanding of the various types of corrosion and some basic methods by which they can be mitigated or prevented. Upon completing this class students will be able to demonstrate an appreciation of the nature of multiphase systems and major examples in industrial applications including consequences for processing and use as well as being able to understand the key physical concepts underlying flow and transport in multiphase systems including non-Newtonian flow behaviour and its consequences in multiphase systems.

  • Class code: CP328
  • Level: 3
  • Semester (including exams):  1 (September to December)
  • Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/ Tutorials, Private Study

Class descriptor

This class will teach students to: 

Understand basic material properties, mechanics and their importance in chemical engineering design. Selection of appropriate materials based on their mechanical, electrical and thermal properties. Understand some basic concepts related to material degradation and failure.

Understand the thermodynamic and kinetics basis for the corrosion of metals in aqueous solution and to use this information to select appropriate materials for chemical processing. Understand the various types of corrosion and some basic methods by which 

  • Class code: CP329
  • Level: 3
  • Semester (including exams):  1 (September to December)
  • Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: Fundamentals of process safety
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/ Tutorials, Private Study

Class descriptor

This class will teach students to: 

·           Identify and analyse risk-based process safety practices in chemical process plant design and operations.

·           Apply appropriate tools and techniques used in designing a safe process, and propose appropriate risk mitigations.

·           Apply appropriate tools and techniques used to evaluate process safety hazards and their impact.

  • Class code: CP325
  • Level: 3
  • Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
  • Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, private study

Class descriptor

This class will teach students to: Extract and use information about a process presented in process diagrams; Implement process calculations based on process diagram information (e.g. mass, heat and energy balances) to check whether a design is feasible; Develop a preliminary process design and to size the main pieces of equipment, using computer packages where appropriate; Present process design documentation in a concise and coherent manner and work collaboratively in teams.

  • Class code: CP316
  • Level: 3
  • Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
  • Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, private study

Class descriptor

This class aims to help students understand the basis of chemical reactor design in terms of mass balances, kinetics, energy balances and stoichiometry. It will cover the performance equations for different types of reactors: batch, flow, continuous stirred tank and plug flow reactors. Upon completing this class students should know how to consider multiple reactions (parallel and series reactions) operating series in the design and analysis of reactors and should also know how to consider multiple reactors operating series in the design and analysis of reactors.

  • Class code: CP330
  • Level: 3
  • Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
  • Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: Fundamentals of chemical engineering
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/tutorials, Private study

Class descriptor

This class aims to teach students to understand the nature and benefits of ethics-based professional responsibility and begin to develop a professional ethical identity to carry forward in working life. Upon completing this class, students should have a basic understanding of economic fundamentals, common economic models and strategy, introductory business practice, and wider economic challenges especially in the context of climate and social problems. Students will learn to understand and be able to apply cost estimation and economic methods to project evaluation, using them alongside other strategic factors, to demonstrate good decision-making in project-scale engineering. 

Semester 1 - Level 4

  • Class code: CP405
  • Level: 4
  • Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
  • Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, private study

Class descriptor

This class will be split into two different learning outcomes: Control and Environmental Technology (ET). In terms of the control portion, students will learn to formulate and describe strategies for control of relatively simple chemical process plants as well as learning to analyse simple dynamic systems and the effects of applying control systems to them. In terms of the ET portion, students will be able to recognise the effect of pollution on the environment and have a basic knowledge of ways of measuring pollutant levels, of pollution control strategies, of environmental legislation and of relevant technical documents. They should also develop an in-depth knowledge of pollution treatment methods, including the design wastewater treatment plans and the sizing of waste gas treatment units.

  • Class code: CP409
  • Level: 4
  • Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
  • Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, private study,group work

Class descriptor

This class will help students to: Appreciate the principles of fractional distillation involving more than two components; Appreciate basic principles and applications of membrane technology and drying technology; Apply physical principles (e.g., mass/energy balances, thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, and transport phenomena) to formulate mathematical models of unit operations; Apply numerical methods and software to solve coupled algebraic and differential equations.

  • Class code: CP414
  • Level: 4
  • Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
  • Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, private study

Class descriptor

This class will demonstrate an appreciation of the main applications of, and the market for, products based on particulate systems and a basic understanding of key physical and chemical processes and relevant equipment involved in industrial particle formation operations. This class will help students to understand the characteristics of particles relevant for their industrial processing and the corresponding characterisation methods, and be able to carry out calculations relating to design of particle formation processes. It will also develop an understanding of the key physical concepts underlying flow and mixing, transport limitations in chemical reactors as well as enzymatic, heterogeneous and multiphase reacting systems. Upon completing this class students should be able to demonstrate an appreciation of the nature of non-ideal and multiphase chemical reactors and major examples in industrial applications including consequence of their design and operations.

  • Class code: 18417
  • Level: 4
  • Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
  • Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: Students selecting this module are expected to be in the final year of their Bachelor’s (BSc/BEng) studies.
  • Teaching methods: Practical, private study

Class descriptor

Upon completing this class, the student should have gained professional engineering experience and/or research experience. They should have also gained experience of extending themselves with open-ended work, in contrast to the more reactive type of work involved in taught classes, labs, and design classes. Finally, the student will have gained experience of project management and communication skills, setting targets, time management, monitoring and critically evaluating process, communicating interim and final outcomes both verbally and by written report/thesis.

Semester 1 - Level 5 

  • Class code: CP523
  • Level: 5
  • Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
  • Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Postgraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/ Tutorials, Private Study, Practical, Group Work

Class descriptor

This class aims to help students understand the connection between the molecular scale and the process scale and ow particular chemical engineering processes operate at a molecular scale. It will also help students to understand the importance of entropy in chemical engineering, and its role in statistical mechanics and thermodynamics as well as understand how typical molecular simulations work. Upon completing this module, students should be able to take measurements from molecular simulations, and analyse and report data and technical ideas in written and oral communications.

  • Class code: CP541
  • Level: 5
  • Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
  • Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Postgraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/ Tutorials, Private Study

Class descriptor

This class aims to help students:

·    Evaluate the role of hydrogen in the transition to a sustainable energy future, its potential to decarbonise various sectors, contribution to various SDGs and its cross-disciplinary and collaborative scope.

·   Understand the technology basics of hydrogen production, storage, distribution, and utilisation and develop awareness of global and national context, targets and business opportunities.

·   Analyse the techno-economic, lifecycle and systems-level facets of hydrogen technologies and the use of datadriven approaches and AI for decision making.

·   Evaluate hydrogen technologies challenges and opportunities, their social, economic impact, regulations, and safety considerations, and propose strategies for integration in relevant industries and applications.

  • Class code: CP541
  • Level: 5
  • Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
  • Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Postgraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/ Tutorials, Private Study

Class descriptor

This class aims to teach students to evaluate the role of hydrogen in the transition to a sustainable energy future, its potential to decarbonise various sectors, contribution to various SDGs and its cross-disciplinary and collaborative scope. Students will learn to understand the technology basis of hydrogen production, storage, distribution, and utilisation and develop awareness of global and national context, targets and business opportunities. Upon completing this module, students will be able to analyse the techno-economic, lifecycle and systems-level facets of hydrogen technologies and the use of data-driven approaches and AI for decision making. Finally, students will learn to evaluate hydrogen technologies challenges and opportunities, their social, economic impact, regulations, and safety considerations, and propose strategies for integration in relevant industries and applications. 

  • Class code: CP527
  • Level: 5
  • Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
  • Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Postgraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/ Tutorials, Private Study

Class descriptor

On completion of this module students are expected to be able to: Understand the properties and phase behaviour of hydrocarbon fluids; Understand how reservoir and well performance influence hydrocarbon production; Understand how advanced topics such as flow through porous media and well test analysis are important for reservoir development; Understand how core petroleum engineering concepts can be applied to the energy transition.

  • Class code: CP533
  • Level: 5
  • Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
  • Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Postgraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/ Tutorials, Private Study, Group Work

Class descriptor

This class aims to calculate key parameters of gaseous flames and analyse solid fuel combustion processes. Upon completing this module, students should be able to analyse the mechanism of pollutants formation along with combustion process control methods as well as be able to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of combustion technologies.

  • Class code: CP537
  • Level: 5
  • Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
  • Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Postgraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/ Tutorials, Private Study, Group Work

Class descriptor

This class aims to describe the main devices for electrochemical energy conversion and their uses in industries, transport and energy systems and describe the half cell reactions involved in fuel cells, electrolysers and redox flow batteries. Students should leave this class with the skills to understand basic diagnostic tools used in electrochemical device development.

  • Class code: CP538
  • Level: 5
  • Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
  • Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Postgraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/ Tutorials, Private Study

Class descriptor

This class aims to help students understand and describe the main environmental and legislative issues for chemical engineers working in the industrial sectors. It will also help students to understand the role of resource efficient and the circular economy in making the industrial sector more sustainable. Finally, it will aim to help students understand and describe the main environmental technologies used for pollution control (and the scientific and engineering principles used) to reduce the environmental impact from contaminants arising from industrial activity in the air, land and water.

  • Class code: CP542
  • Level: 5
  • Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
  • Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Postgraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/ Tutorials, Private Study

Class descriptor

On completion of the module the student is expected to be able to: Evaluate safety risks of a process plant using advanced risk analysis techniques, and propose and justify appropriate measure to reduce risk; Evaluate the integrity and reliability of process equipment, and justify and propose approaches to manage the integrity of process plant and infrastructure; Analyse process safety incidents and evaluate how human factors contributed towards them, and propose and justify interventions to enhance the safety performance of a process plant.

Semester 2- Level 3

  • Class code: CP302
  • Level: 3
  • Semester (including exams): 2 (January - May) 
  • Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/ Tutorials, Private Study

Class descriptor

On completion of this module the student is expected to be able to: Employ the principles of mass transfer to solving quantitative problems in a chemical engineering context; Solve quantitative problems concerning phase equilibrium and mass transfer in chemical engineering separation processes; Apply mass and energy balances in the design of separation processes; Solve quantitative problems concerning the role of adsorption in chemical engineering separation processes.

  • Class code: CP315
  • Level: 3
  • Semester (including exams): 2 (January - May) 
  • Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/ Tutorials, Private Study

Class descriptor

In the context of biomedical engineering students should be able to understand both the basics of bioprocess engineering and the relevant microorganisms, biological processes, and groups of biochemical substances (microbiology and biochemistry). Students should be able to produce simple models for enzyme kinetics and their use in reactor design and analysis as well be capable of performing simple analysis of batch, fed-batch and continuous fermenters.

  • Class code: CP331
  • Level: 3
  • Semester (including exams): 2 (January - May) 
  • Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/ Tutorials, Private Study

Class descriptor

This module aims to help students to understand and develop a critical appreciation of: the historical and global context of sustainable development; the role of sustainable chemical engineering in mitigating/tackling climate change and the challenges of the shift to a decarbonised economy. Students will be able to understand and be able to apply through examples, the key underlying thermodynamic and material principles of sustainable chemical engineering. Finally, students will be able to understand the sustainability drivers for larger scale strategic decisions related to chemical engineering, with a particular focus on the overriding challenge of decarbonisation. 

Semester 2 - Level 4

  • Class code: CP407
  • Level: 4
  • Semester (including exams): 2 (January - May) 
  • Credits: 60 (30 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/ Tutorials, Group work

Class descriptor

On completion of this module the student is expected to be able to apply and adapt chemical engineering knowledge, design methodologies, and problem solving skills in unfamiliar situations to perform both scoping and detailed studies to generate innovative processes, systems, and products to fulfil industrial or societal needs. This includes identifying the objectives and context of the requirements with respect to business, technical, sustainable development, safety, health and environmental issues, and appreciation of public perception concerns. Students should also be able to: Demonstrate the management and collaboration skills necessary to work within a team, planning, prioritizing and organizing activities, as well as effectively dealing with the challenges of working with peers to meet deadlines; Demonstrate the ability to communicate and present the outcomes and rationale of the design clearly, concisely, and effectively, with the appropriate amount of detail and explain and defend chosen design options and decisions; Demonstrate skills to research, critically evaluate, and work with technical information that may be incomplete or uncertain, quantify the effect of this on the design and, where appropriate, use theory to mitigate deficiencies.

Semester 2 - Level 5

  • Class code: 18530
  • Level: 5
  • Semester (including exams): 2 (January - May) 
  • Credits: 60 (30 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Postgraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Practical, Private Study 

Class descriptor

Upon completing this class, the student should have gained professional engineering experience and/or research experience. They should have also gained experience of extending themselves with open-ended work, in contrast to the more reactive type of work involved in taught classes, labs, and design classes. Finally, the student will have gained experience of project management and communication skills, setting targets, time management, monitoring and critically evaluating process, communicating interim and final outcomes both verbally and by written report/thesis.

Semester 2 - Level 5

  • Class code: 18530
  • Level: 5
  • Semester (including exams): 2 (January - May) 
  • Credits: 60 (30 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Postgraduate
  • Prerequisites: Students selecting this module are expected to be in the final year of their Master’s (MEng) studies.
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/ Tutorials, Private Study

Class descriptor

This class aims to help students:

  • Gain experience in extending themselves with open-ended work, in contrast to the more reactive type of work involved in taught classes, labs, and design classes.
  • Gain professional engineering experience and/or research experience.
  • Gain experience in project management and communication skills, setting targets, time management, monitoring, critically evaluating processes, communicating interim, and final outcomes both verbally and by written report/thesis.

Full Year - Level 3

  • Class code: CP303
  • Level: 3
  • Semester (including exams):  1 (September to December) and 2 (January - May) 
  • Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: Fundamentals of chemical engineering
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/ Tutorials, Group work

Class descriptor

·           Understanding the nature of process design, the information, documentation and tasks required.

·           Extracting information about a process from design documentation (e.g. flow diagrams and stream tables).

·           Researching and obtaining appropriate physical property data from literature.

·           Carrying out process calculations based on design information (e.g. mass and energy balances) to assess the viability of a process.

·           Evaluating general process characteristics from the safety and environmental perspective.

·           Raising awareness of the environmental impact of a process.

·           Developing process flowsheets from block flow diagrams and subsequently developing process flow diagrams.

·           Identifying adequate unit operations and types of process equipment required for some common duties.

·           Preparing design documentation for a preliminary conceptual design of a process or a process unit according to design standards.

·           Synthesizing and communicating information about a process.

·           Skills to discuss technical ideas fluently with different audiences.

·           Using modelling and simulation packages (e.g. Aspen) to carry out different process calculations in a format that can be understood and used or modified by other engineers.

  • Class code: CP327
  • Level: 3
  • Semester (including exams):  1 (September to December) and 2 (January - May) 
  • Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: Fundamentals of chemical engineering
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/ Tutorials, Group work

Class descriptor

  • Understanding the nature of process design, the information, documentation and tasks required.
  • Extracting information about a process from design documentation (e.g. flow diagrams and stream tables).
  • Researching and obtaining appropriate physical property data from literature.
  • Carrying out process calculations based on design information (e.g. mass and energy balances) to assess the viability of a process.
  • Evaluating general process characteristics from the safety and environmental perspective.
  • Raising awareness of the environmental impact of a process.
  • Developing process flowsheets from block flow diagrams and subsequently developing process flow diagrams.
  • Identifying adequate unit operations and types of process equipment required for some common duties.
  • Preparing design documentation for a preliminary conceptual design of a process or a process unit according to design standards.
  • Synthesizing and communicating information about a process.
  • Skills to discuss technical ideas fluently with different audiences.
Using modelling and simulation packages (e.g. Aspen) to carry out different process calculations in a format that can be understood and used or modified by other engineers.

  • Class code: CP327
  • Level: 3
  • Semester (including exams):  1 (September to December) and 2 (January - May) 
  • Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: Fundamentals of chemical engineering
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/ Tutorials, Group work

Class descriptor 

This class aims to help students to extract and use information about a process presented in process diagrams. Students will learn to implement process calculations based on process diagram information (e.g. mass, heat and energy balances) to check whether a design is feasible. Students will be able to develop a preliminary process design and to size the main pieces of equipment, using computer packages where appropriate. Upon taking this class, students will be able to present process design documentation in a concise and coherent manner and work collaboratively in teams.