CENGG098
Title: Advanced Design Project
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CENG
90 Cr
45 ECTS
Pass mark: 50%
MSc
Level: Masters
The advanced design project is available to MSc students without a
chemical engineering first degrees wishing to fulfil one of the main
requirements for becoming chartered chemical engineers. The course
develops and tests the students' ability to co-ordinate the knowledge
gained in earlier courses and to apply it to the complete design of a
process plant with particular emphasis on advanced safety, control and
optimisation techniques. The course also develops the following
transferable skills: research, teamwork, presentation skills, written
communication, project management.
On completion of this course, the students will be expected to be:
-able to evaluate the risks associated with the loss of containment from
process plant
-to develop /utilise mathematical models and where necessary translation
them into computer codes for simulating the failure consequences
associated with plant failure
-develop mitigating strategies for reducing the consequences of plant
failure to safe and acceptable levels
- able to develop model-based process and control design strategies;
- able to use a contemporary tool for modelling process dynamics;
- able to develop computational models for complex process plant;
- able to use contemporary tools for advanced model-based process
design
The course comprises two parts. Part I, entitled CENG3006 Process Plant
Design I is undertaken with the final year chemical engineering BEng
students. In Part II, conducted more in the form of a research project,
the MSc students extend the chemical engineering process plant designed
in Part I to consider its advanced safety, optimization and control aspects.
The safety aspects will in the main investigate the consequences
associated with the accidental release of hazardous materials from the
process plant. These will typically include jet fire impingement analysis,
atmospheric dispersion, pipeline rupture, pool fire and explosion
modelling. The results will in turn be used to develop mitigation
procedures, determine minimum safe distances and determine plant
layout.
The model-based design, control and optimisation aspects take the Part 1
further by incorporating different objectives into the design which will
allow a decision maker to take informed decisions. This is achieved by
formulating and solving the problem as a multi-objective optimization
problem to obtain the Pareto or non-inferior curves. Trade-offs between
Cost and Environmental Impact, Energy Consumption and Controllability
or Operability are studied in a quantitative framework.
As recommended for the particular project
"Coulson and Richardson's Chemical Engineering", Vol 6, R K Sinnott,
Butterworth Heineman
60 hrs
Dr T P Elson, Dr P Angeli, Prof. I D L Bogle, Dr V Dua, Dr P Lettieri, Dr G
Manos, Dr L G Papageorgiou, Dr V Dua , Prof. H Mahgerefteh, Dr S Hall,
and invited external speakers
Dr Vivek Dua and Prof Haroun Mahgerefteh
Project reports, drawings and presentation
Oral examinations and project reports
Project reports
Exam: 0% Lab Reports: 0% Project/Other
Reports: 100% Other Cwk: 0% Oral: 0%
Updated September 2015