Department of Chemical Engineering
Year 3
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CENG301P Chemical Engineering Plant Design I
CENG301PA Chemical Engineering Plant Design 1 (For Affiliate students)
CENG302P Process Dynamics and Control
CENG303P Chemical Reaction Engineering II
CENG3003 Chemical Reaction Engineering (only for 2016-17 pre IEP)
CENG304P Transport Phenomena II
CENG305P Advanced Safety and Loss Prevention
CENG3008 Experimentation ( for 2016-17 repeating students only – pre IEP)
Please note information contained here was correct as at April 2016 and information may change. Where
reading lists are provided, you are advised not to purchase books based on these as modules are reviewed
each year.
Module Code:
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Aims:
CENG301P
1.5
22.5 ECTS
3
Module Title:
Pass mark:
Level:
Chemical Engineering Plant Design I
40%
Advanced
Dr L G Papageorgiou
The module aims to further develop and test the students' ability to apply the
knowledge gained in earlier modules and to apply this to the design of a chemical
processing plant in a sustainable context.
Lectures, tutorials and group meetings will provide training in the techniques and
tools required to carry out the design project, applying appropriate design concepts
and computational tools.
The module also develops the following transferable skills: teamwork,
presentation, written communication and project management.
Learning Outcomes:
Synopsis:
On completion the students will be expected to:
 Understand the importance of identifying the objectives and context of the
design in terms of: the business requirements; the technical requirements;
sustainable development; safety, health and environmental issues;
appreciation of public perception and concerns.
 Understand that design is an open-ended process, lacking a pre-determined
solution, which requires: synthesis, innovation and creativity; choices on the
basis of incomplete and contradictory information; decision making; working
with constraints and multiple objectives; justification of the choices and
decisions taken.
 Be able to deploy chemical engineering knowledge using rigorous calculation
and results analysis to arrive at, and verify, the realism of the chosen design.
 Be able to take a systems approach to design appreciating complexity;
interaction and integration.
 Be able to work in a team and understand and manage the processes of: peer
challenge; planning; prioritising and organising team activity; the discipline of
mutual dependency.
 Be able to communicate effectively to: acquire input information; present the
outcomes of the design clearly, concisely and with the appropriate amount of
detail, including flowsheets and stream data; explain and defend chosen
design options and decisions taken.
Chemical engineering design is the creation of a system, process, product, or plant
to meet an identified need and serves to:
 Develop an integrated approach to chemical engineering.
 Encourage the application of chemical engineering principles to problems of
current and future industrial relevance including sustainable development,
safety, and environmental issues.
 Encourage students to develop and demonstrate creative and critical powers
by requiring choices and decisions to be made in areas of uncertainty.
 Encourage students to take a broad view when confronted with complexity
arising from the interaction and integration of the different parts of a process or
system.
 Encourage the development of transferable skills such as communication and
team working.
Give students confidence in their ability to apply their technical knowledge to real
problems.
Textbooks:
Contact Time:
As recommended for the particular project
“Chemical Engineering Design, Principles, Practice and Economics of Plant and
Process Design”, Gavin Towler and Ray Sinnott, 2nd Edition, Elsevier, 2013.
“Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering”, Warren Mccabe, Julian Smith and
Peter Harriott, 7th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2005
Additional reading for MSc conversion students
“Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes” Richard M. Felder and Ronald W.
rd
Rousseau, 3 Edition, John Wiley, 2004
60 hours lectures / seminars/ problem classes / tutorials
Coursework:
100%. (10%HtCtW), 45% Coursework (Group), 45% Coursework (Individual)
Examination:
0%
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Module Code:
Alternative code:
Weighting:
Year of Study:
Teaching Staff:
Aims:
CENG301PA
1.5
22.5 ECTS
3
Module Title:
Pass mark:
Level:
Chemical Engineering Plant Design I
(For Affiliate students only)
40%
Advanced
Dr L G Papageorgiou
The module aims to further develop and test the students' ability to apply the
knowledge gained in earlier modules and to apply this to the design of a chemical
processing plant in a sustainable context.
Lectures, tutorials and group meetings will provide training in the techniques and
tools required to carry out the design project, applying appropriate design concepts
and computational tools.
The module also develops the following transferable skills: teamwork,
presentation, written communication and project management.
Learning Outcomes:
Synopsis:
On completion the students will be expected to:
 Understand the importance of identifying the objectives and context of the
design in terms of: the business requirements; the technical requirements;
sustainable development; safety, health and environmental issues;
appreciation of public perception and concerns.
 Understand that design is an open-ended process, lacking a pre-determined
solution, which requires: synthesis, innovation and creativity; choices on the
basis of incomplete and contradictory information; decision making; working
with constraints and multiple objectives; justification of the choices and
decisions taken.
 Be able to deploy chemical engineering knowledge using rigorous calculation
and results analysis to arrive at, and verify, the realism of the chosen design.
 Be able to take a systems approach to design appreciating complexity;
interaction and integration.
 Be able to work in a team and understand and manage the processes of: peer
challenge; planning; prioritising and organising team activity; the discipline of
mutual dependency.
 Be able to communicate effectively to: acquire input information; present the
outcomes of the design clearly, concisely and with the appropriate amount of
detail, including flowsheets and stream data; explain and defend chosen
design options and decisions taken.
Chemical engineering design is the creation of a system, process, product, or plant
to meet an identified need and serves to:
 Develop an integrated approach to chemical engineering.
 Encourage the application of chemical engineering principles to problems of
current and future industrial relevance including sustainable development,
safety, and environmental issues.
 Encourage students to develop and demonstrate creative and critical powers
by requiring choices and decisions to be made in areas of uncertainty.
 Encourage students to take a broad view when confronted with complexity
arising from the interaction and integration of the different parts of a process or
system.
 Encourage the development of transferable skills such as communication and
team working.
Give students confidence in their ability to apply their technical knowledge to real
problems.
Textbooks:
Contact Time:
As recommended for the particular project
“Chemical Engineering Design, Principles, Practice and Economics of Plant and
Process Design”, Gavin Towler and Ray Sinnott, 2nd Edition, Elsevier, 2013.
“Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering”, Warren Mccabe, Julian Smith and
Peter Harriott, 7th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2005
Additional reading for MSc conversion students
“Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes” Richard M. Felder and Ronald W.
rd
Rousseau, 3 Edition, John Wiley, 2004
60 hours lectures / seminars/ problem classes / tutorials
Coursework:
100% - 50% Coursework (Group),50 % Coursework (Individual)
Examination:
0%
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CENG302P
CENGM22P /
CENGG22P
0.5
Module Title:
7.5 ECTS
3
Pass mark:
Level:
Process Dynamics and Control
40%
Advanced
Dr F Galvanin
The aim of the module is to consider the concepts of process dynamics and
control showing why, and how, control ensures safe, smooth and stable
operation of process plants, in the context of sustainability and sustainable
development.
On completion of this module, students are expected:
 to be aware, and have an appreciation of, the importance of process control
in the safe, efficient, economic and sustainable operation of process plants;
 understand system dynamics, be able to predict the response to changes in
a dynamic system, and be able to design and determine the characteristics
and performance of measurement and control functions;
 to have an understanding of the elements of control loops in regards to
feedback and more complex systems, the types of controllers available and
the methods of controller tuning;
 to have an understanding of the fundamentals of instrumentation for control
purposes.
Synopsis:
To consider the concepts of:
 Modelling and analysis of the behaviour and dynamics of typical chemical
processes;
 Description and analysis of chemical processes in terms of block diagrams to
represent behaviour with associated controlled variables, manipulated
variables and disturbances;
 The essential functionality of feedback control loops and the circumstances in
which their potential benefits may be realised;
 Control system design and functionality;
 Advanced, complex and plantwide control;
 Instrumentation for control
Textbooks:
Contact Time:
"Chemical Process Control", G. Stephanopoulos, Prentice Hall, 1984. "Process
Dynamics and Control", D. E. Seborg, T. F. Edgar, Wiley, 2nd ed,
2004.“Process Dynamics, Modeling and Control”, B. A. Ogunnaike, W. H. Ray,
Oxford University Press, 1995.D. A. Mellichamp, F. J. Doyle III, Wiley, 3rd ed,
2011.
40 hours lectures and seminars/problem classes/tutorials
6 hours laboratory / studio
Coursework:
20%
Examination:
80%
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CENG3003
CENGG007
0.5
7.5 ECTS
3
Module
Title:
Chemical Reaction Engineering
Pass
mark:
40%
Level:
Advanced
Prof A Gavriilidis
To provide a basic understanding of the principles of reactor design and of the reasons
underlying the selection of reactor type to meet particular sets of process conditions.
Reactor selection and design is presented and discussed accounting for safety and
sustainability considerations
On completion the students will be expected:
 to be able to design simple ideal reactors;
 to appreciate technical, economic, safety and sustainability issues that can arise
during reactor design;
 to understand the interaction of transport phenomena with reactions in a chemical,
biochemical or catalytic reactors.
Introduction: Brief survey of the scope of the subject together with a review of some of
its foundations.
Mole Balances: Definition of reaction rate. The general mole balance. The batch, plug
flow and continuous stirred reactors. Industrial reactors.
Conversion and Reactor Sizing: Definition of conversion. Design equations for batch
and flow systems. Reactors in series. Space velocity and space time.
Rate Laws and Stoichiometry: Concepts of reaction rate, reaction order, elementary
reaction and molecularity. Stoichiometric table. Reactions with phase change.
Isothermal Reactor Design: Design structure for isothermal batch, plug flow and
continuous stirred reactors. Design of multiple reactor systems. Pressure drop in
reactors. Reversible reactions.
Non-isothermal Reactor Design: The energy balance. Algorithms for non-isothermal
plug flow and continuous stirred reactor design. Equilibrium conversion. Steady state
multiplicity.
Multiple Reactions: Conditions for maximising yield and selectivity in parallel and
series reactions.
Biocatalysis: Characteristics of enzyme catalysed reactions. Biocatalyst selection and
production. Use of immobilised biocatalysts. Reactor selection and operation.
External Diffusion Effects in Heterogeneous Reactions: Mass transfer fundamentals.
Binary diffusion. External resistance to mass transfer.
Diffusion and Reaction in Porous Catalysts: Diffusion and reaction in spherical pellet.
Internal effectiveness factor. Falsified kinetics.
Models for Non-ideal Reactors: One-parameter models. Two-parameter models.
"Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering", H Scott Fogler, Prentice-Hall
International Inc
"Chemical Reaction Engineering", O Levenspiel, John Wiley & Son
37 hours lectures / seminars / problem classes / tutorials
6 hours laboratory / studio
Coursework:
20%
Examination:
80%
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CENG303P
CENGG23P
0.5
Module Title:
7.5 ECTS
3
Pass mark:
Level:
Chemical Reaction Engineering II
40%
Advanced
Prof A Gavriilidis
To provide an understanding of advanced reactor design and the principles and
phenomena that are present in multiphase and catalytic reactions
Upon completion of this module student should:
 be able to design advanced chemical reactors
 be able to evaluate the influence of mass transfer and hydrodynamics on reactor
performance
 to apply advanced concepts for the design of chemical reactors.
 to combine analytical and computational approaches for reactors design
 to critically evaluate what phenomena and under what circumstances need to be
considered as related to the level of accuracy required for a specific design
problem
 to gain experience on the operation and data analysis form laboratory chemical
reactors
Synopsis:
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Textbooks:
Contact Time:
Nonisothermal reactor design
Multiple reactions in PFR/CSTR
Design of reactors under unsteady conditions
Nonideal reactors and residence time distribution
Introduction to catalysis
Mass transfer and reaction in heterogeneous catalytic reactions
Design of fixed bed reactors
Mass transfer and reaction in gas/liquid reactions
Design of three-phase reactors
"Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering", H Scott Fogler, Prentice-Hall
International Inc
"Chemical Reaction Engineering", O Levenspiel, John Wiley & Son
40 hours lectures / seminars / problem classes / tutorials
6 hours laboratory / studio
Coursework:
20%
Examination:
80%
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Module Code:
Alternative code:
CENG304P
CENGG24P
Module Title:
Transport Phenomena II
CENGG24P
Weighting:
Year of Study:
Teaching Staff:
Aims:
0.5
7.5 ECTS
3
Pass mark:
Level:
40%
Advanced
Dr L Mazzei
To convey advanced concepts and their application to problem solving for fluid
transport processes, mass transfer with chemical reaction, mixing and nonNewtonian flow.
Learning Outcomes:
On completion of this module students will be expected to:
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be able to apply the mass and linear momentum balance equations to
analyze simple flow problems
be able to interpret the physical meaning of transport equations and estimate
the relative importance of the terms featuring in them
be able to apply scaling and order-of-magnitude arguments to simplify
transport equations before attempting to solve them
analyze problems involving diffusion of mass, linear momentum and energy
be able to analyze turbulent flows using simple modelling approaches
be aware of non-Newtonian fluid behavior and how to model it
analyze simple problems involving mass transfer with chemical reaction
Synopsis:
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Mass and linear momentum balance equations (Eulerian and Lagrangian form)
Stress within a fluid and problem of closure
Scaling of transport equations and order of magnitude analysis
Penetration theory (diffusion of mass, linear momentum and energy)
Boundary layer theory
Turbulent flow (characteristics of turbulent flows, averaged transport equations,
Reynolds stress, problem of closure, mixing length theory, Kolmogorov theory)
- Non-Newtonian fluids (shear thinning, shear thickening, Bingham fluids)
- Mass transfer with chemical reaction (film and penetration theories)
Textbooks:
Contact Time:
"Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer", R. Welty, R. E. Wilson
and E. E. Wicks, Wiley, 1976.
"Transport Phenomena", R. B. Bird, W. E. Stewart, and E. N. Lightfoot, Wiley,
1960.
40 hours lectures / seminars / problem classes / tutorials
6 hours laboratory / studio
Coursework:
20%
Examination:
80%
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Module Code:
Alternative Code:
CENG305P
Module Title:
Advanced Safety and Loss Prevention
CENGM25P
CENGG25P
Weighting:
Year of Study:
Teaching Staff:
Aims:
Learning
Outcomes:
0.5
7.5 ECTS
3
Pass mark:
Level:
40%
Advanced
Professor H Mahgerefteh
To provide students with advanced training in hazard identification, quantification and
mitigation as well as risk management.
On completion students should:
 be able to fully appreciate the importance of Safety and Loss Prevention in the
process industries;
 be able to identify, quantify and manage hazards in terms of their potential to cause
damage to the environment, the work force and the general population outside the
perimeter fence;
 be able to apply their knowledge during conceptual design, operation and
decommissioning of process plant.
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Synopsis:
The application of safety as an inherent part of process plant design will be dealt with
and procedures for its implementation are discussed. Incidents which have been
significant in achieving changes in culture will be highlighted. Formal present-day
requirements of engineering for safety, including the methodology for establishing
necessary criteria, implementation and monitoring, verification and validation of safety
systems, and responsibility for auditing.
Basic procedures for Hazard Identification and Development (HAZID), Hazard and
Operability Studies (HAZOP) and Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA). Safety Studies,
Safety Cases and their development, Safety Management Systems and the role of the
Health and Safety Executive.
Key consequences arising from gas accumulation and dispersion, explosion, escalation
and smoke, area classification and transportation.
Textbooks:
Contact Time:
"Loss prevention in the process industries: hazard, identification, assessment and
control", F Lees, Pergamon, Vol 1 & 2, 1980
"Sources of ignition", J Bond, Butterworth, 1991
"Gas dynamics", M Zucrow and JD Hoffman, John Willey and Sons, Vol 1, 1976, and
Vol 2, 1977
40 hours lectures / seminars / problem classes / tutorials
Coursework:
20%
Examination:
80%
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CENG3008
1.5
22.5 ECTS
3
Module Title:
Pass mark:
Level:
Experimentation
40%
Advanced
TBC
To provide practical experience in chemistry and a number of important unit
operations employed in the process engineering industry ensuring a thorough
understanding of the principles of operation and the appropriate theory. To
promote a safe approach to laboratory work.
Learning Outcomes:
On completion the students will be expected:
 to have an appreciation of reaction kinetics, chemical reactors, adsorption,
distillation, pervaporation, fluidisation, thermodynamics, heat transfer;
 to have an appreciation of the practical issues involved in operating "unit
operation" equipment;
to be able to work efficiently within a team.
Synopsis:
Textbooks:
Contact Time:
Students normally work in groups of 3 or 4. Experiments:
Chemical reactors: CSTR & plug-flow
Adiabatic reactors
Distillation
Pervaporation
Fluidisation
Transient heat conduction in a slab
Laboratory Handbook obtained from the department
21 hours
Coursework:
100%.
Examination:
0%
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