BEng (Hons) Chemical Engineering

Year 1

Engineering Materials

This module provides you with a fundamental understanding of the properties and behaviour of materials. The module will allow you to investigate the relationships between design, manufacturing and material properties,

Engineering Mathematics

To provide the concepts to underpin the discipline of Mathematics and enable students to model and analyse engineering systems, generate numerical values for system parameters, manipulate data to find system responses under defined conditions, evaluate the effects on systems of changes in variables and communicate ideas and results mathematically.

Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry

This module will provide an introduction to modern organic chemistry that reinforces and extends the students existing knowledge of aspects of organic chemistry obtained from A-level or equivalent. A foundation in the stereochemical aspects of molecular structure, and exposure to a range of functional groups and their associated chemistry, will be given. Students will develop an understanding of the application of synthetic methodology in organic synthesis. Laboratory work will supplement the lecture material.

Principles of Chemical Engineering

This module introduces the concept of what chenical engineering is.& nbsp;It will provide an overview of chemical engineering as a discipline and& nbsp;demonstrate the concepts& nbsp;and principles of process analysis and design. & nbsp;& nbsp;Energy and material balances will be introduced and problems set which illustrate how they are applied and used in industrial contexts.& nbsp;This module will start the process of ensuring all students are aware of safety, ethics& nbsp;and sustainability in chemical processing. The module will also provide& nbsp;an introduction to some of the basic principles used to analyse and design new chemical processes. Particular emphasis will also be placed upon fluids and fluid flow, rheology, & nbsp;pressure drops etc and provide a basic structure upon which more in depth studies in year two can build. & nbsp;Practical exercises will look at several aspects of flow and conservation of mass in processing equipment. & nbsp;Guest speakers from Industry will be invited to present on a range of topics found within& nbsp;Chemical Engineering.

Thermodynamic and Fluids 1

You will be able to apply fundamental principles to analyse flow in pipes and tank systems, to understand expansion and compression of air in closed systems and to be able to analyse work and heat relationships in basic thermodynamic cycles.

Unit Operations

This module aims to provide you with an understanding of the fundamental operations, separation methods, technologies and design methods used in process industries. The fundamentals of product formation, manipulation and separation will be introduced and their place in designing and running productive processes explained.

Year 2

Fluids Mechanics and Multiphase Systmes

This module will explore how fluids are pumped, stirred and moved within chemical plants. & nbsp;Particular emphasis will look at the mixing of reaction vessels and energy dissipation. & nbsp;Later on in the module the mixing of multiphase fluids, solids and gases will be considered. & nbsp;The emphasis for the multiphase systems will be placed upon liquid liquid systems as this builds on the energy dissapation basics taught at the start of the module. & nbsp;However,& nbsp;ther systems of interest such as gasses systems and colloids will be examined in depth. & nbsp;Various practical sessions will build upon the class room theory and also include or introduce concepts from other core modules such as reaction engineering and transport processes. & nbsp;This theme of cross module reference points will be embedded in all modules to ensure a holistic approach is given and prevent compartmentalisation of knowledge

Mathematicsl Modelling

This course extends the analysis and calculus studied in year 1. It introduces you to the hugely useful subject area of mathematical modelling. You will be introduced to the main concepts and tools within this subject as well as being introduced to the software package Matlab. Matlab is the industry standard package for mathematical modelling and is used in disciplines from finance to engineering to solve applied problems. Each week you will have 3 hours of lecture time and 1 hour of laboratory sessions using Matlab.

Petroleum Chemistry and Refining

The module aims to teach you the impact of siting, construction and management of process plants and reactors and the impacts of their activities on the environment (local, national and global). It also discusses about the hazard and toxicity posed by chemicals during manufacture, use and disposal.

Reaction Engineering

This module will provide you with a sound understanding of fundamental concepts of reaction engineering and the theory of mass transfer. Based on reaction equilibria and kinetics, mass and energy conservation, this module will introduce you to the basic concepts behind the design of different types of chemical reactors and also the design and operation of mass transfer equipment. The core of most chemical processes is some form of chemical reactor to produce the desired product. Downstream of the reactor there is a need to separate the desired product from the other compounds leaving the
reactor.

Transport Processes

Provide the therorectical and under pinnning practical coniderations behind mass, momentum and heat transport. & nbsp;MHM transport processes are key Chemical Engineering process and underpins much of the rest of the course. & nbsp;This module builds strongly on the concepts first introduced at Level 4 and provides a basis with which to approach problems within a design context. & nbsp;Students should also understand how the underpinning physics associated with transport processes& nbsp;can be used to design and operate unit operations such as mixers or dryers.

Unit Processes and Design

This module is intended to draw upon the information gained so far from across the whole of the chemical engineeering course. & nbsp;The module will require students to work in groups and dsign a chemical process. & nbsp;The design will require the students to draw upon various aspects of chemistry, transport processes, reaction engineering and safety when making design decisions. & nbsp;Ultimately the groups will have to sell their designs to a panel of prospective investors. & nbsp;During the module student groups will be required to present their findings, as their design& nbsp;evolves, via a range of methods: presentations, flow diagrams, reports and mass and energy balances. The module intend to all student to make their own (group)& nbsp;decisions on how processes will be run, this will incude reactor design and separation method selection.& nbsp;

Year 3

Desgin Project

In this module you will be working as part of a design team and undertake an open-ended project to design a specified product. Academic staff will supervise each team and assist in the definition of the design task.& nbsp; Team members will work together on various aspects of the project to produce mass and energy balances, on economic evaluation and viability of possible and final designs.& nbsp; It is also expected that you will be tasked to establish detailed design of plant items.& nbsp; By the end of this module your design team will have achieved the complete design for the product whilst reviewing plant-wide process aspects such as ethics, safety, health and environmental as well as overall process integration.

Discovery, Research and Specialism

This module will be split between two related halves. Within the first half, students will be set a practical task (taken from the existing chemical engineering equipment pool and possibly chemistry department) and will be required to understand the working principle behind the process. They will then perform a hazard/safety analysis and devise an experimental plan to generate test data. This plan should be rigorous to be able to indicate the accuracy of the equipment in delivering its intended function, but also for experimental and equipment error to be explored and commented on. The second part deals with elected subject/research areas where individual members of staff will present their respective research areas ( manufacturing, energy, food, safety and complex fluids) to the students who elect which area they wish to follow. Other specialisms when identified can also be included. This will allow the students (a minimum of 5 to make streams viable) to explore potential employment directions in more details from experts in the field. This part of the course will be very flexible in their approach to lectures, practical and computational classes.

Environmental Engineering

This module will focus on a variety of related areas. Climate change and overpopulation will be discussed in a context of geological and socio-political changes. & nbsp;The production and uses of sustsainable energy will examine new technolgies (nuclear, wind, solar) will be discuused in a context of declining fossil fuels. The need for recycling and the technologies to recycle will be examined. & nbsp;The Hydrogen ecconomy will be introduced and form a prime example for discussing sutainability in addition a& nbsp;mixture of lectures tutorials and case studies will explore theses various factors

Process Dynamics and Control

This module combines two topics : Firstly, process design and control is taught along side the need for its concepts to be implemented into the Design project.& nbsp; It involves the selection and tailoring of methods for the efficient operation of chemical processes. What is strongly stressed is that proper application of process control can improve the safety and profitability of processes. This module provides an overview of process control algorithms as well as the mathematical techniques that may be used to analyse process systems. You will learn how to select appropriate control schemes and strategies and appropriate hardware for common unit operations encountered within the chemical industry. You will also gain an appreciation of how time-dependent process behaviour affects the design, operation and safety of process plants. It will also use industry standard software and approaches to design and visualise the operation of process plant (or parts of ) to allow for design and control decisions to be defined and made. & nbsp; The second part of the module looks at Computational Fluid Mechanics which is the study of the theory of fluids being of immense practical importance; the most obvious examples of this are air and water, but there are many others such as lubricants in engines. Moreover, the scientific principles and mathematical techniques needed to explain fluid motion are of intrinsic interest. The most intuitive place to review and practice vector calculus, the essential tool in describing a 3D world, is through the study of fluid motion. Students will be introduced to the basic kinematic and mechanical ideas needed to model fluids mathematically. & nbsp;

Safety and Engineering Practice

This module aims to provide you with a complete grounding in all aspects of safety related to the Chemical and Process Engineering Industry. You will also be made aware of relevant regulations relating to safety, the concept of risk and its management in a process environment, and learn a range of practical tools relating to hazards, risks and error analysis.