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CE50175: Industrial catalytic processes

Academic Year: 2018/9
Owning Department/School: Department of Chemical Engineering
Credits: 6      [equivalent to 12 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 120
Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Period:
Semester 1
Assessment Summary: CW 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • COURSEWORK (CW 100%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Description: Aims:
To show how the skills of chemists and engineers must be used to develop complete industrial catalytic processes; to show relation of the good industrial design to fundamental principles of chemistry and engineering; to provide up-to-date information on some key industrial processes.

Learning Outcomes:
After successfully completing this unit students should be able to: Understand the development route to a complete industrial process from fundamental chemistry selection to process optimisation and economics. Use optimisation tools for analysis of chemical kinetics and of processes.

Skills:
Interdisciplinary skills in catalytic process development; Numerical simulation and process optimisation.

Content:
Fundamentals of catalytic processes; Kinetics of heterogeneous catalytic processes; Multiphase catalytic processes; Process models; Process Economics; Industrial Case Studies.
Programme availability:

CE50175 is Optional on the following programmes:

Department of Chemistry

Notes:

  • This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2018/19 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2019/20 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2018/19.
  • Programmes and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
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