Chemical and Biochemical Process Technology - Specialization
Chemical and Biochemical Process Technology
Specialization: Chemical and Biochemical Process Technology
Process technology within chemical and biochemical engineering is a direction, students with interest in design, modeling operation and analysis of process equipment and production system can choose to specialise in. It naturally includes a strong emphasis on the mathematical description of process systems and their components, based on fundamental knowledge of natural sciences, biotechnology, and chemical engineering, provides a synthesis of chemical and biochemical aspects of processing. Through course choices, focused curricula of e.g., reaction engineering, process control or bioprocess technology may be constructed.
The following programme specific and polytechnical foundation courses are mandatory to obtain this specialization in chemical and biochemical process technology
| 12100 | Quantitative Sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | F7 (Tues 18-22) |
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| 12106 | Quantitative Sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17) |
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| 12105 | Quantitative Sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | E7 (Tues 18-22) |
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| 12101 | Quantitative Sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | Spring F3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 26620 | Chemistry and Innovation | 5 | point | June |
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| 28485 | Biobusiness and Process Innovation | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 28350 | Process Design: Principles and Methods | 10 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) and Spring F3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 28420 | Separation Processes | 7.5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 28443 | Industrial Reaction Engineering | 7.5 | point | Spring F4B (Fri 8-12) |
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| 28345 | Industrial BioReaction Engineering | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 28530 | Transport Processes | 10 | point | Autumn E5 (Wed 8-17) |
| 42500 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | January |
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| 42504 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | August |
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| 42501 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | June |
It is furthermore required to achieve min 20 ECTS among the following courses:
| 23521 | Hygienic design in the food industry | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 28233 | Recovery and purification of biological products | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 28244 | Combustion and High Temperature Processes | 5 | point | Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 28346 | Advanced fermentation technology practicum | 5 | point | June and January |
| 28361 | Chemical engineering model analysis | 7.5 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 28423 | Phase Equilibria for non-ideal mixtures | 5 | point | Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 28434 | Membrane Technology | 5 | point | Spring F1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 28451 | Optimising Plantwide Control | 7.5 | point | Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 28831 | Computational Fluid Dynamics in Chemical Engineering | 5 | point | January |
| 28845 | Chemical Reaction Engineering Laboratory | 5 | point | January |
| 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) |
Electives, i.e., courses not counting as the polytechnic foundation or programme specific courses in MSc Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, allow a study plan within chemical and biochemical process technology to be broadened in scope. This can be done either by choosing additional programme specific courses with product, energy, or environment engineering content, or by choosing courses giving a deeper insight in advanced mathematics, chemistry, physics, management, and adjoining technological areas.
A few examples of electives are listed below in connection with the study plan examples.
| 02409 | Multivariate Statistics | 5 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 02417 | Time Series Analysis | 5 | point | Spring F4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 02450 | Introduction to Machine Learning and Data Mining | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17), Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 02619 | Model Predictive Control | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 12109 | Physico-Chemical Water Treatment Technologies | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 23511 | Food production engineering basics | 10 | point | Autumn E4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12) |
| 26280 | Chemistry and Physics in CO2 Storage | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 28213 | Polymer Technology | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 28271 | Thermal gasification, pyrolysis and sustainability | 5 | point | June |
| 28850 | Pharmaceutical Process Development | 5 | point | Spring F5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 42186 | Model-based machine learning | 5 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 47301 | Hydrogen energy and fuel cells | 5 | point | Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17) |
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 and the specialisation 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 50 ECTS are here included and these will count as electives.
Proposed study plan - September start
MSc thesis
Proposed study plan - February start
MSc Thesis
Specializations are merely recommended ways of choosing the courses in the curriculum. Applicants are not admitted to a specialization but to the programme and it is possible to choose among all the courses in the curriculum following the directions given. However, if a specialization has been fulfilled the title of the specialization may be added to the diploma.