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MSc - Master of Science
City Campus
Full Time
Jan 2027
1 Year
The modern society relies on the work of Chemical Engineers who develop and design the processes that make the useful products for the society by efficient use and management of resources including water and energy while controlling health and safety procedures and protecting the environment. Chemical Engineering provides essential tools based on the concept of sustainability and low carbon footprint for changing raw materials into useful products in a safe and cost effective way. Chemical Engineers understand how to alter the chemical, biochemical or physical state of a substance, to create everything from health care products (face creams, shampoo, perfume, drugs) to food (dairy products, cereals, agro-chemicals) and water (desalination for freshwater) to energy (petroleum to nuclear fuels). Your study at MSc level at Bradford will be a foundation for life aimed at developing a deep understanding of advanced technical principles, analytical tools, and competence in their application together with a wide range of management, personal and professional skills. The course will provide you with essential tools based on the concept of sustainability and low carbon footprint for changing raw materials into useful products in a safe and cost effective way.
The aim of this module is to provide you with a detailed technological understanding of strategically important issue of sustainable production of freshwater via different desalination methods.
Food and Pharmaceutical Process Engineering is a multidisciplinary module that introduces students with fundamental principles of mixing and crystallisation in process industry, the design of equipment for mixing (for both Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids) and the design of equipment for food and pharmaceutical processing such as hot melt extruder, distillation, extraction, membrane separation and heat treatment units.
Aims: To further develop practical evaluation of professional engineering activity in a chosen specialisation; To extend the student's ability to plan, implement and review appropriate activities in a large and academically demanding project, so as to achieve an agreed set of objectives in a given time scale.
The module establishes the mathematical framework of the conservation equations (continuity, motion and energy) and the corresponding constitutive equations (Newton?s Law of Viscosity, Fourier?s Law of Heat Conduction and Fick?s Law of Diffusion). These are then applied to analyse various flow, heat transfer and mass transfer situations of importance to chemical engineering and obtain exact analytical solutions to steady state, unidirectional Newtonian and non-Newtonian flow problems and to steady-state heat and mass transfer problems. Students will be introduced to the use of CFD packages to solve situations not possible analytically.
The objective is to provide the students with expert level knowledge of upstream petroleum and refining processes synthesis, simulation and design.
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