Advanced Chemical and Petroleum Engineering MSc

The modules for this course can be found in the latest programme specification.

The aims of the MSc programme are to equip the students with the theoretical knowledge, concepts and skills necessary for original thought and problems analysis related to core chemical/petroleum/polymer engineering.

Postgraduate Certificate

• Desalination Technology (20 credits) – core
  This module provides you with a detailed technological understanding of strategically important issue of sustainable production of freshwater via desalination.
• Material & Manufacturing Processes (20 credits) – core
  To provide specialist knowledge of manufacturing methods used in the design and development of operations to process engineer materials with advanced properties, consistent attributes and with sound structural integrity.
• Transport Phenomena (10 credits) – core
  This module put emphasis on understanding basic physical principles governing transport processes in chemical engineering.
• Design Optimisation (10 credits) – optional
  To establish an appreciation for the role of optimisation in modern engineering practice and to provide evidence for the premise that optimisation is one component of an integrated tool kit for addressing and evaluating multiple solutions to a variety of engineering-based problems.
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (10 credits) – optional
  To understand fundamental principles of the advanced numerical simulations in hydrodynamics. There will be an emphasis on developing practical skills to build numerical models to simulate free surface flows in practical contexts.

Students will be eligible to exit with the award of Postgraduate certificate if they have successfully completed 60 credits and achieved the award learning outcomes.

Postgraduate Diploma

• Upstream Production and Refinery Operations (20 credits) – core
  You will be able to synthesise the right process configurations for any given well fluid and crude oil quality and also simulate/design the entire upstream petroleum and refining processes with the given product quality constraints as well as HSE (health, safety and environment) concerns.
• Research Skills (10 credits) – core
• Food & Pharmaceutical Processes Engineering (10 credits) – core
  This module introduces you to fundamental principles along with the design of equipment such as fluid-particles settlers and centrifuges, filtration and crystallisation units and other specialised food and pharmaceutical processing equipment.
• Polymer Engineering (20 credits) – optional
  As part of the module you will perform a practical research project to reactively modify a polymer, produce test specimens from the new material and then characterise its properties.
• Engineering Computational Methods (10 credits) – optional
  To critically review the application of the Finite Element (FE) method as a tool for engineering analysis
• Risk Management (10 credits) – optional
  Acquire a deep understanding of the concepts and principles of risk management and its interaction with other management activities, and directly apply them in a range of product and service industries.

Students will be eligible to exit with the award of Postgraduate Diploma if they have successfully completed at least 120 credits and achieved the award learning outcomes.

Degree of Master

• MSc Project (60 credits) – core
  This project will further develop practical evaluation of professional engineering activity in a chosen specialisation. To extend the student's ability to plan, implement and review appropriate activities in a large and academically demanding project, in order to achieve an agreed set of objectives in a given time scale.

Students will be eligible for the award of Degree of Master if they have successfully completed at least 180 credits and achieved the award learning outcomes.