Energy and Environmental Engineering - Specialization
Energy and Environmental Engineering
Specialization: Energy and Environmental Engineering
Energy and environmental engineering within chemical and biochemical engineering is a direction, students with interest in environmental benign production system, resource recovery, management 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.
The following programme specific courses are mandatory to obtain this specialization in energy and environmental engineering:
| 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) |
| 27246 | Applied enzyme technology and kinetics | 5 | point | E7 (Tues 18-22) |
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| 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) |
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| 28242 | Chemical Kinetics and Catalysis | 5 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 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) |
| 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:
| 12109 | Physico-Chemical Water Treatment Technologies | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 26280 | Chemistry and Physics in CO2 Storage | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 26510 | Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry | 10 | point | Spring F4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 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) |
| 28434 | Membrane Technology | 5 | point | Spring F1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 28451 | Optimising Plantwide Control | 7.5 | point | Spring F2A (Mon 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) |
| 47334 | Carbon capture, utilization, and storage | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
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, resource recovery or environment engineering content.
A few examples of electives are listed below in connection with the study plan examples.
| 02450 | Introduction to Machine Learning and Data Mining | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17), Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 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, pyrolysis and sustainability | 5 | point | August |
| 28870 | Energy and Sustainability | 5 | point | E7 (Tues 18-22) |
| 41416 | Energy systems - analysis, design and optimization | 10 | point | Spring F5 (Wed 8-17) |
| 42186 | Model-based machine learning | 5 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 47334 | Carbon capture, utilization, and storage | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
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.
Study plan example - September start
MSc Thesis
Study plan example - February start
Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical... Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation)
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.