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CE50219: Resource conservation: advanced processing for resource efficiency

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 2
Assessment Summary: EX 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Exam (2 hours) (EX 100%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Description: Aims:
Develop a knowledge and understanding of advanced processing, concepts and technologies in process integration and process intensification and be able to apply this to design/re-design novel and resource efficient reaction and separation processes.

Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this unit the student will be able to:
* Specify and design technologies (including emerging and process intensification) to replace conventional ones.
* Develop and evaluate strategies for technology integration for process efficiency
* Identify optimal abatement and/or resource recovery levels

Skills:

* The ability to select a technology based on sound evaluation of criteria (T,F,A)
* the ability to integrate prior knowledge and understanding of process design with advanced level resource efficiency, and to apply this to process intensification and technology integration (T,F,A)
* the ability to deal with complex issues, solve problems and make decisions in the context of multiple criteria and stakeholders in a systematic and creative way (T,F,A)
* the ability to apply and adapt design processes and methodologies in unfamiliar situations and generate innovative design to fulfil needs (F,A)
* the ability to optimise designs to trade off across environmental, social and economic dimensions (T,F,A)
* uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of knowledge and how these affect the analysis and solution of sustainability assessments (F,A)

Content:

* Role of process intensification as a preventative environmental strategy to reduce material and energy resources and minimise waste.
* Selection and specification of emerging technologies, intensified reactors and separation processes.
* Green chemistry and green engineering concepts
* Advanced sampling and measurement.
* Optimal degree of abatement and sampling and measurement strategies for resource efficiency
* Integrating complex information in problem solving and decision making
* Energy pinch.
Programme availability:

CE50219 is Compulsory on the following programmes:

Department of Chemical Engineering

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.
  • Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
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