Energy and Environmental Engineering - Focus area

Energy and Environmental Engineering

The focus area on energy and environmental engineering within chemical and biochemical engineering is a direction students with interest in environmental benign production system, resource recovery and emission control can choose to specialize in. The central elements are processes rooted in chemical or biochemical engineering but applied to manage energy use and to control the environmental load of production facilities. This focus area is thus largely process oriented, but concentrated on energy, resources, and environment. A large element of cross-disciplinary design and development should be present in individual study plans even though chemical and biochemical processes form the core.

For focus areas such as energy and environmental engineering there are no other mandatory requirements besides what has been listed under curriculum of the chemical and biochemical engineering MSc education in general. In the following advice regarding selection of course among the programme specific courses and elective are given to highlight how such as profile can be obtained.

The following programme specific courses are highly recommended for a study plan for students with interest in energy and environmental engineering:

26510	Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry	10	point	Spring F4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12)
26620	Chemistry and Innovation	5	point	June
or
28485	Biobusiness and Process Innovation	5	point	Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17)
28345	Industrial BioReaction Engineering	5	point	Spring F4A (Tues 13-17)
or
28443	Industrial Reaction Engineering	7.5	point	Spring F4B (Fri 8-12)
28350	Process Design: Principles and Methods	10	point	Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) and Spring F3B (Fri 13-17)
28361	Chemical engineering model analysis	7.5	point	Spring F5B (Wed 13-17)
or
28530	Transport Processes	10	point	Autumn E5 (Wed 8-17)
28420	Separation Processes	7.5	point	Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12)
47334	Carbon capture, utilization and storage	5	point	Spring F3A (Tues 8-12)

The following programme specific courses also contribute to build strong competences in energy and environmental engineering:

12109	Physico-Chemical Water Treatment Technologies	5	point	Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17)
12110	Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Resource Recovery	5	point	Spring F5A (Wed 8-12)
28242	Chemical Kinetics and Catalysis	5	point	Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12)
28244	Combustion and High Temperature Processes	5	point	Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12)
28315	Applied Colloid and Surface Chemistry	5	point	E7 (Tues 18-22)
28420	Separation Processes	7.5	point	Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12)
28434	Membrane Technology	5	point	Spring F1A (Mon 8-12)
28451	Optimising Plantwide Control	7.5	point	Spring F2A (Mon 13-17)
28852	Risk Assessment in Chemical and Biochemical Industry	5	point	Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17)
28871	Production of Biofuels	10	point	Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) and Spring F4B (Fri 8-12)
28872	Biorefinery	5	point	Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12)
47301	Hydrogen energy and fuel cells	5	point	Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17)

Electives, i.e., courses not counting as the polytechnic foundation or program specific courses in MSc Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, allow a study plan within energy and environmental engineering to be broadened in scope. This can be done either by choosing additional programme specific courses with energy, recourse recovery or environment engineering content.

A few examples of electives are listed below in connection with the study plan examples.

12240	Environmental Management, innovation and Ethics	5	point	January
12330	Contaminated Sites	10	point	Spring F3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17)
12772	Life Cycle Assessment of Products and Systems	10	point	Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17)
12774	Assessing health, environmental and life cycle impacts	5	point	June
28271	Thermal gasification and sustainability	5	point	June
28515	Enhanced oil recovery and carbon dioxide storage	5	point	Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17)
28870	Energy and Sustainability	5	point	E7 (Tues 18-22)
41416	Energy systems - analysis, design and optimization	10	point	Spring F5 (Wed 8-17)

Examples of study plans

Two examples are shown: one for students beginning their MSc study in September, and one for students beginning their MSc study in February.

The study plans are examples only. Students are free to exchange the shown courses with other courses if the general requirements for the curriculum in chemical and biochemical engineering is satisfied. The proposed plans fulfil requirements of the curriculum in terms of the polytechnic foundation, programme specific coursed and thesis but do not fill all 120 ECTS. A few programme specific courses in excess of the required 55 ECTS are here included and these will count as electives.