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2020/21 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

CAPE5020M Team Design Project

15 creditsClass Size: 50

Module manager: Dr BH Xu
Email: b.h.xu@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2020/21

Module replaces

CAPE5700M Interdisciplinary Design ProjectCAPE5310M Chemical Process Technology and Design

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

- Design project work in which students will work together in a team (with individual contributions) to design a chemical process plant. - The group supervisor will be responsible for the organisation and assessment of the project. - Students will meet with the supervisor on a regular basis to ensure good communications within the project. - Students will also attend a series of lectures and seminars dealing with relevant aspects of the planning, design and evaluation of the project.- Students will be responsible for the organisation and delivery of relevant aspects required in the project, as prescribed. Each individual student or team will be required to produce a project plan detailing the planning and execution of the project and a final report covering detailed technical design, process control, financial and environmental aspects of the project. Students will also be required to make a verbal presentation on their findings at the end of the project.- Application of HYSYS for flowsheeting, material and energy balance calculations and process simulations.

Objectives

On completion of this module, students should:
- have an understanding of the basic concepts surrounding the chemical process industry, design and manufacturing;
- be capable of demonstrating chemical route and process selection based on sound scientific and engineering data and arguments;
- be aware of the safety, environmental, logistical, financial and other aspects associated with a major design project;
- have experience of project organisation and management, particularly being able to work in design teams and to communicate effectively within the team;
- have acquired the necessary skills to enable them to conduct a project with a significant degree of engineering competence;
- be capable of disseminating their findings in written and verbal form.

Learning outcomes
- Knowledge of research and development of chemical manufacture, together with training of fundamental engineering design and practice.
- Principles of process chemistry and mass/energy balances for complex processes with chemical reactions and recycles including:
Methodologies for design of process equipment;
Environmental and safety issues;
Project management and cost analysis.
- Ability to apply HYSYS software for flow sheeting and process design.

Skills outcomes
This module will significantly develop: team-working ability, interpersonal relationship skills, planning, oral and written communication skills, organisational and time-management skills, research skills, analytical skills and information literacy.


Syllabus

Initially, students will carry out a substantial feasibility study on the prjoect topic as members of a team. Emphasis will be placed upon team working, project planning, marketing and financial aspects and interpersonal and communication skills. Guidance will be given by academic staff as well as other professionals working in relevant industries or with industrial experience.

The teams will be responsible for their own project planning and for arranging their own meetings between formal Review
Meetings/Presentations. Teams will have access to group working tools in Minerva as will the project supervisor for the purposes of reviewing student progress.

In addition, each student will produce a Wiki in the VLE aimed at the general public. During the latter half of the semester, students will identify the key technical issues involved in their particular team design project, and chose one or more of these, under the guidance of a member of academic staff, to subject to a more detailed in-depth analysis.

This analysis might involve critical literature searching, modelling and/or simulation, laboratory-based experimental work or interaction with an outside industrial company relevant to the chosen issue(s). This should better enable them to appreciate the relevance of the materials discipline to the overall design objectives and how in an industrial context they might bring their discipline-specific expertise to bear on the project.

Teaching methods

Delivery typeNumberLength hoursStudent hours
Group learning103.0030.00
Independent online learning hours10.00
Private study hours110.00
Total Contact hours30.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)150.00

Private study

Independent on-line learning covering tools necessary for successful design project management, execution and presentation. Private study is in the form of group interaction and targeted research directed towards achieving the objectives set out in the briefing document. The tasks involved may include, for example, off campus visits by way of a fact finding mission for assessing solutions to a particular design problem. In the second phase the work involved in assessing the technical issues of the design study and the outcomes are of a more individual and independent nature.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Progress and performance in tutorials. Monitoring of project development via blog and group working tools in the VLE.

Methods of assessment


Coursework
Assessment typeNotes% of formal assessment
ReportTechnical Report (student peer assessment)20.00
ReportTechnical report (staff assessment)60.00
Reflective logReflective log10.00
PresentationPresentation10.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)100.00

The resit will only be available on technical report (staff assessment).

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 29/09/2020

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