Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

This project-based module focuses on applying core chemical engineering principles to process development with an emphasis on sustainability. Students will learn to integrate thermodynamic and mass balance calculations with experimental design strategies to optimize processes. The module introduces sustainability frameworks and basic environmental impact assessments, enabling students to evaluate chemical processes in a broader context.

Learning objectives

Knowledge

Students who have passed the module should be able to

• Explain chemical engineering principles relevant to process development
• Describe sustainability frameworks and their application to chemical processes
• Understand experimental design strategies for process optimization
• Account for relevant basic calculations related to process analysis and assessment

Skills

• Formulate relevant problems that can form the basis of the problem-based approach to the project
• Write an electronic project report following the standards of the field of study, include relevant literature, use the correct terminology, and communicate the problem and results in writing, graphically and orally in a professionally reasoned and coherent way
• Use relevant software to present, analyze and visualize theories, hypotheses and data in writing as well as orally
• Justify the choice of methods, models and other tools used in the project and assess the problem of the project and results in relevant professional contexts
• Based on process flow diagrams, setup material and elemental mass balances and account for raw material inputs, product production, waste generation and emissions
• Based on thermodynamic considerations of phase transfer and chemical reactions, account for energy balances of the process  
• Perform basic environmental impact assessments

Competences

• For and overall process Handle the planning, implementation and management of a problem-based project and handle complex and development-oriented tasks during the project work and contribute to the project group's work and results
• Identify own learning needs for continued development and education in the field of study

Type of instruction

Project work

Extent and expected workload

450 hours

Exam

Exams