Chemical Engineering for Sustainable Energy

Learning Outcomes

Disciplinary Specific Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Summarise the impact of chemical engineering on sustainable energy generation
• Analyse the parameters required for a complete life cycle analysis in the context of water use and energy utilisation in resources transformation and processing (Design)
• Assess the impacts of health and safety, with respect to current legal requirements. (Breadth)
• Apply and evaluate concepts and limitations of chemical engineering in energy systems (Practice);
• Evaluate the use of process control, catalysis and reaction to optimise Energy generation and processing (Practice)

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Select and utilise appropriate chemical engineering tools to model complex Heat and Mass transfer processes. (Design)

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Extend and apply knowledge of design practices to describe the primary operating parameters in current Energy concepts and sustainability, demand and utilisation storage systems and distribution;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Conduct audits of energy audit and design methods of energy management to create more sustainable processes
• Critically assess the importance of renewable energy resources in sustainable chemical engineering design.

• A background to the Earth's natural cycles and ecosystem services, potential environmental and ethical/social issues and the interactions with resource use and waste production.
• Renewable and non-renewable materials and energy generation.
• The concept of sustainable development and how this can be integrated into an organisation's strategic plan.
• A review of the relevant standards that could be encountered in relation to these processes.
• Design concepts, including the energy and waste hierarchies as well as tools such as the circular economy and the life cycle approach to minimise resource use and waste generation in process engineering.
• green engineering applications
• Energy storage and CCS

Practical: Completion of two practical exercises to illustrate the operation of energy application

Teaching is by a combination of formal lectures augmented by problem solving sessions

All the material will be available on line.

Lectures, tutorials with group working and tutor support Practical

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.