Chemical with Nuclear Engineering

Modules shown are for the current academic year, and are subject to change depending on your year of entry.

You take a pathway of core modules in the first year, as well as two mini-design projects:

• one on the scheduling of maintenance and repair work on a pressurised-water reactor power station
• one on the synthesis of a heat exchanger network for a solvent manufacturing plant

Key aims in these projects are success in definition and solving of the problem, and experience of working in groups.

• Business for Engineers 1
  (Business Ethics for Chemical Engineers)
• Chemistry
• First Year Design Project
• Fluid Mechanics 1
• Foundation Laboratory
• Heat and Mass Transfer
• Introduction to MATLAB
• Mastery for Engineers 1
• Mathematics 1
• Process Analysis
• Properties of Matter
• Separation Processes 1
• Spring Test
• Thermodynamics 1

In the second year you take another pathway of core modules in addition to design projects:

• for a catalytic reactor – students must write their own computer program to size the reactor in order to achieve a specified conversion
• for control of a furnace for heating a crude oil stream – students use an existing real-time simulation package

• Biochemistry
• Business for Engineers 2
  (Economic Evaluation of Projects)
• Fluid Mechanics 2
• Heat Transfer
• Industrial Chemistry
• Knowledge Laboratory
• Mastery for Engineers
• Mathematics 2
• Pilot Plant Project
• Process Dynamics and Control
• Reaction Engineering 1
• Reactor Design and Control Project
• Separation Processes 2
• Thermodynamics 2

Your third year is a pathway of core modules, in addition to design projects.

• a combined flow-sheeting and process synthesis design
• the mechanical design of a pressure vessel: a detailed engineering drawing is required of each student, with instruction in drawing practice provided by an engineering graphics course
• a combined economic, social and technical analysis of proposed new technology
• five case studies on the safe design and operation of plant including sizing of relief systems and estimation of over-pressures arising from explosions

• Discovery Laboratory
• Environmental Engineering
• Flow Sheeting Project
• Fluid Mechanics 3
• Introduction to Nuclear Engineering
• Mastery for Engineers 3
• Mechanical Design Project
• Nuclear Chemical Engineering
• Numerical Methods
• Particle Engineering
• Reaction Engineering 2
• Safety and Loss Prevention
• Strategy of Design
• Techno-Economic Project

In year four, you have the choice of over 20 optional modules, which you take alongside two projects.

• Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics
• Nuclear Reactor Physics
• Nuclear Materials 1

You complete an advanced research project at Master's level over one or two terms.

You undertake a major project covering all aspects of the design of a chemical plant:

• the synthesis of a process
• detailed design of key units
• plant control (including start-up and shut-down procedures)
• plant safety and layout (including environmental impacts of the plant)
• development of a sound business plan

You choose three of the below optional modules.

• Advanced Bioprocess Engineering
• Advanced Process Operations
• Advanced Process Optimisation 1
• Biochemical Engineering
• Carbon Capture & Clean Fossil Fuels
• Colloid & Interface Science
• Downstream Separation in Biotechnology
• Dynamic Behaviour of Process Systems
• Dynamical Systems in Chemical Engineering
• Long Research Project
• Membrane Science & Membrane Separation Processes
• Modelling of Biological Systems
• Molecular Modelling of Fluids
• Pharmaceutical Process Development
• Process Heat Transfer
• Product Characterisation
• Transport Processes in Biological Systems

You may choose one of the below modules within your above choices of optional modules.

• Business for Professional Engineers and Scientists
• Imperial Horizons
• Inter-Departmental Exchange