Postgraduate Courses

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Identify and predict properties of heterogeneous catalysts for chemical reactions.
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  Design catalysts and catalytic reactions for chemical conversion and transformation.
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  Apply fundamental principles of chemistry and chemical engineering in selection, design and preparation of catalytic materials.
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  Create expert knowledge in methodologies and instrumentations for characterizing catalysts.
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  Design process for the manufacture of heterogeneous catalysts.
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  Design catalytic reactor and integrate the use of catalyst in such reactor system.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Identify the key drivers shaping the power generation industry.
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  Identify the deployment trend of different power generation technologies.
• 3.
  Describe the working principles of various power generation technologies.
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  Compare different power generation technologies based on a systematic and consistent approach.
• 5.
  Develop interest and basic knowledge on chemical processes related to the power generation and emerging/enabling technologies covered in the course through the group project.
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  Search updated/evolving energy and power generation technology information, data and news from credible sources.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Identify the concept and philosophy of carbon neutrality.
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  Identify the demand and the importance of environmental sustainability.
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  Describe the significance of decarbonization technologies to the humanities and environment.
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  Solve the engineering problems on the four main decarbonization technologies, including green transport, waste reduction, net-zero electricity generation, and green buildings.
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  Design and integrate the processing units into system for decarbonization processes.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Describe concepts, principles, relations and experimental basis of the separation processes.
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  Describe key concepts of separation processes and unit design including equilibrium stages, reflux,countercurrent contacting, limiting cases, efficiency and mass transport effects.
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  Model and solve problems related to flash distillation, liquid-liquid extraction, batch distillation, cascades,simple and complex binary distillation systems and absorption in packed towers.
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  Identify the basic principles of evaporation, absorption, liquid-liquid extraction, membrane, drying processes.
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  Evaluate separation process options in a wider context of sustainability, commercial considerations andcontribution to the society.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Identify the concepts and principles of polymerizations.
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  Explain widely used synthetic methods for polymerizations.
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  Describe ways to analyze properties to understand morphology and structures.
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  Recognize polymer as advanced materials.
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  Identify porous crystalline polymeric materials for applications in energy and the environment.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Describe the principles of bioprocess engineering and bioenergy production.
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  Explain how microorganisms and biochemical processes can be applied for various bioproducts and bioenergy.
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  Select, compare or design a reactor, fermentation processes or bioseparations used for various products, based on cost, safety, operability, etc.
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  Evaluate the production and potential of bioenergy from economic and environmental aspects.
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  Communicate biochemical engineering concepts through the use of engineering media, verbally and in writing.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Effectively describe the process safety management and risk assessment processes.
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  Categorize the key elements constituting to the building blocks of Process Safety Management framework.
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  Write up brief functional description, operation procedure and/or start-up/shut down procedures.
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  Identify and evaluate the risk and hazard by applying the quantitative tools learnt.
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  Critique on the adoption, implementation, integration and improvement of the Process Safety Management framework.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Model and optimize individual energy equipment such as heat exchanger, boiler, turbine, etc. that are commonly available in chemical plants.
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  Integrate and optimize energy system such as steam boiler plant, combined cycle, refrigeration system, etc., by combining the indiviual energy equipment studied.
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  Target, design and optimize heat exchanger network.
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  Design and integrate energy system with production process.
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  Create and conduct design or research projects with integration and optimization elements.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Identify the relationship between energy, environment and sustainable development.
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  Conduct energy analysis on energy systems.
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  Relate the global demand for energy with the impact on the environment.
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  Relate global warming with greenhouse gases emission.
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  Explain how various forms of non-renewable and renewable energies are produced and evaluate their impacts on the environment and sustainable development.
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  Propose possible practices and enhancement of energy efficiency in industry and commerce, which can contribute to sustainable development.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Describe fundamentals of electrochemical energy technologies and use electrochemistry to explain reaction mechanism.
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  Explain the design principles of fuel cells, batteries, supercapacitors, etc.
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  Study in depth a particular energy topic and write a review/give a presentation.
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  Select active materials and test them for various electrochemical energy devices.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Conduct the process of identifying customers' needs and developing ideas that may satisfy these needs.
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  Identify product needs and fundamental design features for products in the energy sector.
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  Identify the critical importance of product purity in the fabrication of microelectronics products and develop process operations that could satisfy these needs.
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  Identify the opportunities for the development of food and personal care products.
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  Demonstrate the design of products and processes for the benefit of the environment.
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  Conduct "process synthesis" for the manufacture of chemical products.
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  Discover the basis of using nanotechnology for the manufacture of new products.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Describe and compare reactor types.
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  Effectively describe the mechanisms involved within the reactor for any particular processes and hence the relevant parameters required to quantity the situation for selection and design.
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  Be familiar with the essential chemical and physical models critical to reactor design.
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  Identify the rate limited steps and leverage this to simplify the design.
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  Appreciate the impact of other key industrial parameters on reactor design.
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  Design a relatively safer reactor by adopting an inherently safer design and multiple layers protection strategies.
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  Adopt techniques for reactor integration, scale-up and optimization.
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  Gain insight on the future development of reactor design.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Identify the most recent progress in chemical and biomolecular engineering.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Develop the skills of modern analytical, experimental and computational techniques in chemical and biomolecular engineering.