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CE40247: Microengineering and advanced materials

[Page last updated: 15 May 2025]

Academic Year: 2025/26
Owning Department/School: Department of Chemical Engineering
Credits: 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 200
Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Period:
Semester 1
Assessment Summary: EXOB 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Examination (EXOB 100%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Learning Outcomes: After successfully completing this unit, you will be able to:
* Choose and apply appropriate techniques and information to overcome complexity and uncertainty, and design the product, tool or device (A1 Level F, A2.2 Level F, A2.5 Level F, A4.2 Level F3, A4.2 Level F4, A5.2 Level F1, A5.2 Level F2) [CLO: P2]
* Relate information from other disciplines to the selection of the most appropriate nano-and micro-scale technological solution and design (A3.2 Level F3, A5.2 Level F8) [CLO: P1]
* Compare, recommend and justify the choice of micro-scale technology and/or advanced material for a given chemical engineering challenge, including identification of limitations (A2.2 Level F, A2.6 Level F2, A3.2 Level F2 A5.2 Level F4) [CLO: I2]
* Apply chemical engineering principles and systems thinking, considering conflicting requirements (safety, social, economics, sustainability, ethics) in complex chemical engineering problems (A2.4 Level F1, A2.4 Level F2, A2.5 Level F1, A2.6 Level F1, A2.7 Level F, A5.2 Level F3) [CLO I1]


Content:
  • Structure, classification, and characterisation of advanced materials and their applications, including adsorption, storage, ion exchange, membrane, and reaction processes.
  • Thermodynamic equilibria for single and multicomponent confined systems; transport processes in porous solids; interparticle and intraparticle processes; experimental measurement techniques.
  • Introduction to microfluidics and hydrodynamics of microfluidic system.
  • Modelling of flow in microchannels including diffusion, mixing and separation in microsystems.
  • Segmented (two-fluid and multi-phase) fluid flow in microchannels.
  • Modelling of catalytic reactions in microreactors.
  • Methods and materials for microfabrication.
  • Capillary forces, surface tension and electrowetting


Skills:
  • Analysis (T,F,A)
  • Data acquisition and interpretation (T,F,A)
  • Problem solving (T,F,A).


Aims: In this unit you will explore two emerging research and industrial fields in the chemical engineering arena: advanced functional materials and microfluidic devices. You will develop an understanding of how functionality arises from underlying fundamental science and structure-property relationships and study applications which enable the transition from the 'macro-world' to the 'micro-world' including microreactor technologies.

Course availability:

CE40247 is a Must Pass Unit on the following courses:

Department of Chemical Engineering
  • UECE-AFM12 : MEng(Hons) Chemical Engineering (Year 4)
  • UECE-AKM12 : MEng(Hons) Chemical Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 5)

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