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CE40253: Clean technologies for environmental engineering

[Page last updated: 09 August 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
Assessment Summary: EXOB 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Open book examination (EXOB 100%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
* Assess available technology and identify limitations for a given chemical engineering challenge (A2, A6d) [CLO: I3]
* Choose and apply appropriate techniques and information to design the product, tool or device (A2, A6b) [CLO: P2]
* Relate information from other disciplines to the choice of technology and design (A6f) [CLO: P1]


Aims: This unit will aim to introduce you to traditional and advanced clean technologies for addressing environmental engineering problems.

Skills:
* 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 select and design technology, processes and systems based on sound evaluation of criteria (T,F,A)
* The ability to work with, and critically analyse, information that may be uncertain or incomplete and to quantify the effect of this on problem solving, design and decision (T,F,A)
* Ability to conceptualise, design and integrate a water supply and re-use system in a whole systems approach (T,F,A)

Content:
* Clean technologies.
* Waste and environmental pollution minimisation concepts and strategies.
* Role of process intensification to reduce material and energy resources and minimise waste.
* Selection and specification of emerging technologies, for application in the environmental and sustainable chemical engineering discipline.

Course availability:

CE40253 is a Designated Essential Unit on the following courses:

Department of Chemical Engineering
  • UECE-AFM11 : MEng(Hons) Chemical Engineering with Environmental Engineering (Year 4)
  • UECE-AKM11 : MEng(Hons) Chemical Engineering with Environmental Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 5)

Notes:

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