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CE30242: Product and process design (group)

[Page last updated: 15 May 2025]

Academic Year: 2025/26
Owning Department/School: Department of Chemical Engineering
Credits: 15 [equivalent to 30 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 300
Level: Honours (FHEQ level 6)
Period:
Semester 2
Assessment Summary: CWOG 20%, CWRG 80%
Assessment Detail:
  • Group Report (CWRG 80%)
  • Group Presentation (CWOG 20%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Learning Outcomes: After successfully completing this unit, you will be able to:
* Access the health, safety and sustainability of a complex process (A2 1c. A2 6d. A4 2e. A4 2 Level F4) [CLO: K3]
* Identify and select the appropriate operation and configuration of that unit, and construct the unit specifications (A2 4a, A2 4b, A2 4c) [CLO: 12]
* Integrate advanced principles of chemical engineering to create a group product and process design for a complex, open-ended and unfamiliar scenario (A2 1b, A2 4d, A2 5b, A3 2e, A4 2b, A4 2d, A4, 2 Level F1, A4 2 level F2, A4 2 Level F3, A4 2 level F4, A5 2a, A5 2 Level F3, A5 2 Level F5) [CLO: 12. 13, P3]
* Communicate the design and its rationale to an expert audience (A4 2g, A5 2b, A5 2 Level F7) [CLO: T3]
* Recognise relevant elements from other engineering disciplines (A1e) [CLO: K2]
* Apply the principles of process, plant and project economics (A2 7b, A4 2 Level F4) [CLO: K3]
* Argue for the design decisions based on the combined context of financial, technical, health and safety, environmental security, and social considerations (A2 5e, A3 2a, A3 2d, A3 2h, A3 2k, A4 2a, A4 2e, A5/2f) [CLO: K3]
* Be able to work in a team and evaluate your own effectiveness as a member of the team (A4 2f, A5 2 Level F6) [CLO T6]


Synopsis: Starting with market research, you'll investigate the production of a product and design the plant to manufacture it. Taking into account culture and ethics, and using chemical engineering fundamentals, you'll design and develop environmentally, socially and economically viable solutions to complex and open-ended engineering problems. Previous design projects have included carbon capture and utilisation, cultured meat manufacture, and sustainable rocket fuel.

Content:
  • Demonstration of effecitve teamworking
  • Perform market research and prepare a business plan
  • Compare alternative designs and identify key decisions
  • Process synthesis and final selection of process flow sheet
  • Short-cut design of key unit operations
  • Mechanical design
  • Economic analysis
  • Process flow sheet optimisation
  • Plant control including start-up and shut-down
  • Plant safety and layout
  • Environmental impact
  • Executive summary and presentation of proposed design.


Skills:
  • Analysis [T,F,A]
  • Problem solving [T,F,A]
  • Design [T,F,A]
  • Numeracy [T,F,A]
  • Modelling [T,F,A]
  • Engineering Health and Safety practice [T,F,A]
  • Presentation [F,A]
  • Team working [F,A]
  • Data management [F,A]
  • Economic analysis [F,A]
  • Research [F,A]


Aims: This unit will introduce you to the:
  • Market research to determine the quantities and features of specific products with appropriate functional behaviour derived from specific physical or chemical properties
  • Selection and design of process equipment to manufacture such products, based on chemical or biochemical process plant.
You will work in teams to engage in open-ended research and apply cultural and ethical considerations to design and develop economic and sustainable solutions to complex and open-ended engineering problems.

Course availability:

CE30242 is a Must Pass Unit on the following courses:

Department of Chemical Engineering
  • UECE-AFB12 : BEng(Hons) Chemical Engineering (Year 3)
  • UECE-AKB12 : BEng(Hons) Chemical Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 4)
  • UECE-AFM12 : MEng(Hons) Chemical Engineering (Year 3)
  • UECE-AKM12 : MEng(Hons) Chemical Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 3)
  • UECE-AFM11 : MEng(Hons) Chemical Engineering with Environmental Engineering (Year 3)
  • UECE-AKM11 : MEng(Hons) Chemical Engineering with Environmental Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 3)

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