Advanced Chemical Engineering

Explore advanced topics in process design, with an emphasis on process modelling and optimisation theory and associated software packages.

Analyse how chemical discharges affect the planet and how the increased greenhouse effect, ozone depletion, smog formation and acid rain arise from human influences on natural cycles.

Review the relevant fundamentals of biochemistry, microbiology, and molecular biology, and explore the principles behind fermentation processes.

Learn about state-of-the-art optimisation-based techniques for process synthesis, process design and molecular design, with a particular focus on mathematical programming.

Learn how to formulate, solve and interpret meaningful optimisation problems through the use of optimality conditions and common solution techniques.

Understand a range of analytical techniques needed to address challenges being faced by industry and explore leading spectroscopic methods.

Explore the many techniques used in biotechnology that differ from chemical engineering, followed by a review of conventional downstream separation approaches including Cell Lysis, Extraction, Chromatography and more.

Delve into the fundamentals of colloid and interface science and analyse the nature of the various interparticle forces.

Learn how to systematically develop physics-based models of chemical processes and solve them using state-of-the-art computational tools.

Develop a fundamental understanding of nonlinear dynamical systems to better appreciate complex phenomena in nature and a variety of chemical and biological engineering technological processes.

Develop your understanding of advanced statistical learning and machine learning to solve a range of real-life chemical engineering problems.

Learn the basic tools for modelling intracellular processes as well as modelling at cellular and higher levels.

Understand the application of molecular theory and simulation in modelling fluids and fluid mixtures.

Apply your previous scientific knowledge in a pharmaceutical development context, with guidance from industry partners.

Understand the general workflows of facilities engineering teams and learn how to perform simple process and pipeline hydraulics hand calculations.

Develop your knowledge and experience in current experimental techniques and learn to analyse and apply these techniques to selected products.

Assess basic principles and concepts of fluid flow, heat and mass transfer relevant to physiological and biological systems, as well as more advanced mathematical models.

Develop the ability to design and build automation solutions and autonomous systems for a wide range of industrial applications.

Acquire working knowledge to equip you for advanced coursework in machine learning, optimisation, dynamical systems, and numerical computations.

Learn to apply mathematical and computational techniques to derive and solve equations of motion of fluids, which may be Newtonian or non-Newtonian, compressible or incompressible.

Understand the environmental impacts of fossil fuels and learn how to minimise the costs of CO₂ avoidance through the use of a range of technologies.

Develop your ability to formulate and solve engineering problems involving the design of membranes and membrane modules for gas separation, reverse osmosis, nanofiltration and more.

Investigate the main chemical engineering processes associated with nuclear energy and work through problems related to mass and energy balance.

Explore your knowledge of particle technology and develop your skills in the key principles, concepts and technology to be confident to research and analyse a broader range of powder processing.

Carry out process heat transfer calculations to understand the basics and procedures to critically assess commercial codes in industry.

Explore the tools required for the application of new energy and renewable energy systems to the problems faced by climate change and global energy security while transitioning to a zero emissions economy.

Gain biodevice fabrication techniques and learn how to apply these in industry through topics such as microfluids, synthetic systems, and probes for innovative product design.

Develop accounting-related skills and examine their relevance to broader issues of financial decision-making and management control in organisations.

Analyse several economic tools and explore a range of microeconomic and macroeconomic topics, problems and policies.

Examine the relevance of financial and management accounting techniques in financial decision making and management control of organisations.

An introduction to financial markets and the role they place in the macroeconomy, and how business risk is transferred and priced in equity and dept securities.

Introduction to the entrepreneurship module, using the key methods, knowledge, skills and tools used in starting up a new business and the challenges and issues encountered.

Introduction to the entrepreneurship module, using the key methods, knowledge, skills and tools used in starting up a new business and the challenges and issues encountered. This course is self-guided.

Enhance your accounting-related skills and gain a basic insight into the way that business performance is measured.

Become equipped with the skills needed to organise and shape the innovation process in firms and learn how to evaluate managerial strategies.

Explore the value to businesses of understanding economics, concepts, tolls and analytical frameworks as well as the role of monetary and fiscal policy on business cycles.

Develop an understanding of Project Management and apply it’s tools to analyse, interpret an provide solutions to strategic, organisational and operative challenges.

Develop and practise skills that will be used to identify, diagnose and evaluate key organisational issues and learn to work productively as a team.