| Description:
| Aims:
To provide students with in-depth understanding of the principles of process engineering integrated with the overarching sustainability criteria for process technologies. Design principles with the integral aspects of clean synthesis, energy use integration/efficiency, use of biochemistry / biotechnology will be developed and used in the course in a number of case studies.
Learning Outcomes:
After successfully completing this unit students should be able to: Formulate specific process problems (develop process schemes), analyse reactor/system functionality, identify greener chemistry routes towards a desired chemical (from literature), use design methodologies and process engineering flow-sheeting to formulate new process design approaches; assess sustainability of alternative technologies.
Skills:
Numeracy, IT skills.
Content:
A combination of lectures and problem based learning. Hierarchy of process development; process schemes and analysis of process schemes; elements of metrics of sustainable processes; green chemical processes, green chemistry; biotechnology alternatives to chemical processes, flow chemistry, continuous integrated process, industrial ecology; flow-sheet development and process simulation in ASPEN (or HYSIS).
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