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 |
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28485 | Biobusiness and Process Innovation | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
28345 | Industrial BioReaction Engineering | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
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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) |
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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.
Study plan examples - Energy and Environmental Engineering
Study plan for September start:
MSc Thesis
Study plan for February start:
MSc Thesis