CE40247: Microengineering and advanced materials
[Page last updated: 03 June 2024]
| Academic Year: | 2024/25 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Chemical Engineering |
| Credits: | 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 200 |
| Level: | Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
| Period: |
- Semester 1
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| Assessment Summary: | EX 100% |
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
After successfully completing this unit, you will be able to:
- Assess available microprocessing technologies and/or advanced materials and identify limitations for a given chemical engineering challenge (A2, A6d) [CLO: I3]
- Choose and apply appropriate microfluidics and/or advanced material techniques and materials information to design the product, tool or device (A2, A6b) [CLO: P2]
- Relate information from other disciplines to the selection of the most appropriate nano-and micro-scale technological solution and design (A6f) [CLO: P1]
- Compare, recommend and justify the choice of a micro-scale technology and/or advanced material for a given chemical engineering challenge (A2, A6d) [CLO: I2]
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| Aims: | In this unit you will explore two emerging research and industrial fields in the chemical engineering arena: advanced functional materials and microfluidic devices. You will develop an understanding of how functionality arises from underlying fundamental science and structure-property relationships and study applications which enable the transition from the 'macro-world' to the 'micro-world' including microreactor technologies.
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| Skills: | - Analysis (T,F,A)
- Data acquisition and interpretation (T,F,A)
- Problem solving (T,F,A).
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| Content: | - Structure, classification, and characterisation of advanced materials and their applications, including adsorption, storage, ion exchange, membrane, and reaction processes.
- Thermodynamic equilibria for single and multicomponent confined systems; transport processes in porous solids; interparticle and intraparticle processes; experimental measurement techniques.
- Introduction to microfluidics and hydrodynamics of microfluidic system.
- Modelling of flow in microchannels including diffusion, mixing and separation in microsystems.
- Segmented (two-fluid and multi-phase) fluid flow in microchannels.
- Modelling of catalytic reactions in microreactors.
- Methods and materials for microfabrication.
- Capillary forces, surface tension and electrowetting
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| Course availability: |
CE40247 is Optional (DEU) on the following courses:
Department of Chemical Engineering
- UECE-AFM12 : MEng(Hons) Chemical Engineering (Year 4)
- UECE-AKM12 : MEng(Hons) Chemical Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 5)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2024/25 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2025/26 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2024/25.
- Courses 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.
- Find out more about these and other important University terms and conditions here.
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