2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue
CAPE5340M Advances in Chemical Engineering
15 creditsClass Size: 150
Module manager: Professor RA Bourne
Email: r.a.bourne@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2024/25
This module is not approved as an Elective
Objectives
Within the Chemical Engineering programme, the students have become experts in fundamental theory and practice in Chemical Engineering. This includes familiarity with many processes which are well established across the industry. As with all science and engineering, technology advances at a rapid pace, which is usually tailored to increasing revenue and enhancing sustainability. Furthermore, new product technologies require increasingly advanced production technologies which require precision across multiple scales (i.e. from lab to factory). In this module, the overall objective is for the students to be able to apply their engineering expertise to evaluate, critically analyse and gain expert knowledge in the context of advanced technologies. This includes from a new or specialised products perspective, and from that of new and advanced chemical process technologies including the move towards automated technologies.Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Understand the limitations of current practice.
2. Have a broad knowledge and critical awareness of developments at the forefront of chemical engineering.
3. Be able to evaluate critically technical literature and other information sources.
4. Recognise the limitations of standard commercial software for solving chemical engineering problems and identify requirements for more advanced techniques or specialist expertise.
5. Understand how to combine and adapt different aspects of systems thinking to complex and novel processes.
6. Have understanding of the limits of available technology and of the potential of new and emerging technology.
7. Have a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of mathematics and scientific principles relevant to chemical engineering, demonstrated primarily through their ability to apply them to the solution of complex engineering problems.
8. Have a critical awareness of the wider engineering discipline.
9. Have some understanding of the limits of available technology and of the potential of new and emerging technology.
Skills outcomes
- Can utilise higher-level chemical engineering knowledge for problem solving.
- Be able to translate fundamental knowledge into 'real world' products and processes.
- Ability to communicate technical chemical engineering related information in the context of engineering advances, in writing, verbally and using audio-visual/digital tools.
Syllabus
The module will cover three aspects of current chemical engineering technology developments:
(1) Automated engineering technologies and big data analytics for product and process development.
(2) Machine learning in chemical engineering for high-value products.
(3) Research-led advances in chemical engineering - Gain an overall understanding of state-of-the-art developments in chemical engineering reported within academic literature.
Teaching methods
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
| Workshop | 6 | 1.00 | 6.00 |
| Group learning | 6 | 2.00 | 12.00 |
| Lecture | 5 | 2.00 | 10.00 |
| Private study hours | 122.00 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 28.00 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 150.00 | ||
Private study
2 hour reading per week related to online material and preparatory exercises. Individual literature reading for group work. Group work in preparation for group presentation.Opportunities for Formative Feedback
Discussion during synchronous sessions, via online resources, open office hours.Guidance during group work occur within synchronous group sessions.
Methods of assessment
Coursework
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
| Project | Project | 65.00 |
| Assignment | Assignment | 35.00 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100.00 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
Reading list
There is no reading list for this moduleLast updated: 14/05/2024
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