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MSc - Master of Science
John Anderson Campus
Full Time
Sep 2026
1 Year
Our MSc Advanced Chemical Engineering aims at advancing students’ knowledge and skills in areas crucial for tackling real-world societal challenges. Our graduates can gain enhanced career prospects in a variety of different fields, including pharmaceuticals, energy, food and drink, and environmental engineering. The course also offers specialisation in a particular field enhancing your expertise, in turn making you more competitive in the job market.The course has a strong project-based approach with opportunities to undertake research, allowing you to work on projects that can contribute to new discoveries and innovations. An interest in research during your MSc studies, can lead to further studies for an MPhil or PhD and subsequently to a research and innovation-oriented career.Our department is diverse, with students and staff from across the UK and overseas, and from a wide range of professional backgrounds. The course is challenging and provides the opportunity for personal growth, improved independence and confidence.This course is one of the few MSc programmes to offer the module ‘Safety Management Practices’, which offers exposure to best industry practices and much sought-after industrial training in an area critical to all Chemical Engineering.The course meets accreditation requirements for the Institution of Chemical Engineers allowing graduates to apply for chartered engineer status.
The focus of this module is on the wider implications of process design. The first stage is to consider how batch and semi-batch processes are represented and described, including special factors when compared with continuous processes. This will also include start-up and shut-down procedures in continuous processes.
This module aims to introduce the fundamentals of combustion engineering, and the concepts and applications of clean combustion technologies.
Environmental impact assessment (EIA) relates to the process of identifying, evaluating, and mitigating the biophysical, social, economic, cultural and other relevant effects of development proposals prior to major decisions being taken and commitments made.
This module explores financial options and strategies for ensuring the solvency and financial sustainability of business ventures. It covers topics including financial reporting and financial accounting in relation to the wider issues of corporate behaviour and corporate governance.
This module aims to provide students with an appreciation of how chemical engineering processes operate at a molecular scale and how the molecular scale eventually determines what happens at the process scale. It will emphasise the usefulness of molecular simulation in a chemical engineering context and discuss its power as a predictive tool.
This module aims to enhance students? knowledge and understanding of surface science, the relationship between a material?s properties and applications, and its underlying molecular structure and interactions.
This module aims to give students a good understanding of some fundamental aspects of the petroleum industry by covering the following topics: reservoir characterisation and classification; properties of reservoir fluids; properties of reservoir rocks; flow through porous media; well performance; single and multi-phase pipe flow; artificial lift systems.
The focus of this module is on the principles of conceptual design and flowsheet development, which often represent the most difficult and challenging aspects of process design. The first stage is to define ?design? and the associated terminology, and to show how this can be applied to both equipment and process selection. The second stage is to develop an appreciation of the hierarchical and structural methods of developing conceptual designs including the effective design of utility systems to reduce energy use.
This module aims to provide students with a fundamental understanding of scientific programming and in particular its application to optimisation in engineering applications.
This module aims to provide students with the skills and knowledge to be able to undertake the following learning outcomes:
This module aims to introduce the fundamental techniques of risk management and risk-informed decision making. Under health and safety legislation, and under the wider European Post-Seveso Directives, it is mandatory for many industries to carry out risk assessments with the aim of showing that risk is ?as low as reasonably practicable?. Students will have the opportunity to learn the general principles of methods and their place in risk management, as well as the chance to develop skills in applying these methods to a variety of engineering examples.
This module aims to provide an advanced level exposure to the role of management and management systems in safety and loss prevention.
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