MSc — 2025 entry Process Systems Engineering

Designers and managers working in technology intensive industries constantly face new problems to which they have to find solutions. Research is becoming important part of their job carried out on daily and routine manner. Also, one of the best ways to get insights into these challenges is to get the first-hand experience from expert who already faced them and provided appropriate solutions proven to be successful. This module aims to provide an introduction to the general principles and practices associated with planning, undertaking and reporting research in engineering or physical sciences. At the same time, a series of seminars will be delivered by academics and industrial experts from diverse hi-tech industries and business (including chemicals, oil and gas, information systems and renewable technologies) which will present students with valuable insights into today’s challenges faced by technology-intensive industries in terms of their business and information systems activities. It also covers general business aspects that will explain how to start up a technology-based company.

This module introduces students to the intricacies of sustainable development (SD) when applied in real life contexts, covering areas within environmental management, strategy, industrial ecology, and more. Using case studies, the module will cover the challenges in the integration and implementation of sustainable development. Guest speakers offer their organizational and field experiences as cases exemplifying challenges, progress and effective practice in putting SD principles into practice in diverse sectors and places. This reinforces and brings to life the conceptual learning done in the module and in the earlier Foundations and Frontiers module (ENGM064). The SDA module develops the ideas covered in ENGM064 and will facilitate a deepened understanding and consolidation of corporate environmental management, socioeconomic and political issues, spanning the public, private, and ‘third’ (civil society) sectors. This module is one of the components required for Associate Membership of IEMA and IES.

Knowledge is the most critical part of any decision making process, being it the process of design, management or general business. Last several decades have witnessed numerous attempts to present knowledge in the form processable by computers, starting with descriptive logic, through the production rules and ending with ontologies as the last and the latest form known today, the process known as artificial intelligence. The module will help students in consolidating all of these technologies and using them in supporting decision making in the area of student’ interest, primarily in the process of design for processing industry.

Biomass processing technologies or biorefineries include a wide range of options, including biochemical, thermochemical and catalytic reaction technologies. Starting from the core reaction technologies, a biorefinery flowsheet includes separation and purification to multi-products, and utility and reagent recovery systems. This module aims to develop conceptual design skills from unit operations through to integrated flowsheets and techno-economic analysis, using leading innovations in the field and spreadsheet-based models

This module provides an introduction to the theory and practice associated with the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas covering subsurface and topside operations.

 A teaching and learning module that covers all aspects of safety and reliability in the design and operation of process plant and equipment. Although generally applicable to the full range of business operations, the main focus is on offshore oil and gas platforms, refinery and petrochemical operations where knowledge and understanding will be gained in maintaining the highest standards of process safety and operations integrity.

Energy use and the systems put in place to supply it are responsible for the majority of the world’s emissions of carbon dioxide and hence much climate change policy is directed towards the energy sector. Energy is also central to economic development and social welfare and thus energy security and cost minimisation are high on national policy agendas. Energy markets throughout the world are also evolving rapidly, with privatisation, competition, market structure and regulation remaining prominent issues in the UK, Europe and internationally. The range of challenges for energy policy is diverse and exciting. This Module focuses on the transitions needed from the current situations in energy use, supply, markets and policy to those required as part of a long term, sustainable, low carbon energy system. The sessions will introduce the range of low carbon energy options including energy efficiency, energy storge, renewables, nuclear and carbon capture and storage. The module will explore different low-carbon scenarios and policies and how these could fit with the Sustainable Development Goals, and what barriers maybe encountered along the route to a just transition, in both the global North and South. 

Designers and managers working in technology intensive industries constantly face new problems to which they have to find solutions. Research is becoming important part of their job carried out on daily and routine manner. Also, one of the best ways to get insights into these challenges is to get the first-hand experience from expert who already faced them and provided appropriate solutions proven to be successful. This module aims to provide an introduction to the general principles and practices associated with planning, undertaking and reporting research in engineering or physical sciences. At the same time, a series of seminars will be delivered by academics and industrial experts from diverse hi-tech industries and business (including chemicals, oil and gas, information systems and renewable technologies) which will present students with valuable insights into today’s challenges faced by technology-intensive industries in terms of their business and information systems activities. It also covers general business aspects that will explain how to start up a technology-based company.

This module introduces students to the intricacies of sustainable development (SD) when applied in real life contexts, covering areas within environmental management, strategy, industrial ecology, and more. Using case studies, the module will cover the challenges in the integration and implementation of sustainable development. Guest speakers offer their organizational and field experiences as cases exemplifying challenges, progress and effective practice in putting SD principles into practice in diverse sectors and places. This reinforces and brings to life the conceptual learning done in the module and in the earlier Foundations and Frontiers module (ENGM064). The SDA module develops the ideas covered in ENGM064 and will facilitate a deepened understanding and consolidation of corporate environmental management, socioeconomic and political issues, spanning the public, private, and ‘third’ (civil society) sectors. This module is one of the components required for Associate Membership of IEMA and IES.

Knowledge is the most critical part of any decision making process, being it the process of design, management or general business. Last several decades have witnessed numerous attempts to present knowledge in the form processable by computers, starting with descriptive logic, through the production rules and ending with ontologies as the last and the latest form known today, the process known as artificial intelligence. The module will help students in consolidating all of these technologies and using them in supporting decision making in the area of student’ interest, primarily in the process of design for processing industry.

Biomass processing technologies or biorefineries include a wide range of options, including biochemical, thermochemical and catalytic reaction technologies. Starting from the core reaction technologies, a biorefinery flowsheet includes separation and purification to multi-products, and utility and reagent recovery systems. This module aims to develop conceptual design skills from unit operations through to integrated flowsheets and techno-economic analysis, using leading innovations in the field and spreadsheet-based models

This module provides an introduction to the theory and practice associated with the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas covering subsurface and topside operations.

 A teaching and learning module that covers all aspects of safety and reliability in the design and operation of process plant and equipment. Although generally applicable to the full range of business operations, the main focus is on offshore oil and gas platforms, refinery and petrochemical operations where knowledge and understanding will be gained in maintaining the highest standards of process safety and operations integrity.

Energy use and the systems put in place to supply it are responsible for the majority of the world’s emissions of carbon dioxide and hence much climate change policy is directed towards the energy sector. Energy is also central to economic development and social welfare and thus energy security and cost minimisation are high on national policy agendas. Energy markets throughout the world are also evolving rapidly, with privatisation, competition, market structure and regulation remaining prominent issues in the UK, Europe and internationally. The range of challenges for energy policy is diverse and exciting. This Module focuses on the transitions needed from the current situations in energy use, supply, markets and policy to those required as part of a long term, sustainable, low carbon energy system. The sessions will introduce the range of low carbon energy options including energy efficiency, energy storge, renewables, nuclear and carbon capture and storage. The module will explore different low-carbon scenarios and policies and how these could fit with the Sustainable Development Goals, and what barriers maybe encountered along the route to a just transition, in both the global North and South. 

Designers and managers working in technology intensive industries constantly face new problems to which they have to find solutions. Research is becoming important part of their job carried out on daily and routine manner. Also, one of the best ways to get insights into these challenges is to get the first-hand experience from expert who already faced them and provided appropriate solutions proven to be successful. This module aims to provide an introduction to the general principles and practices associated with planning, undertaking and reporting research in engineering or physical sciences. At the same time, a series of seminars will be delivered by academics and industrial experts from diverse hi-tech industries and business (including chemicals, oil and gas, information systems and renewable technologies) which will present students with valuable insights into today’s challenges faced by technology-intensive industries in terms of their business and information systems activities. It also covers general business aspects that will explain how to start up a technology-based company.

This module introduces students to the intricacies of sustainable development (SD) when applied in real life contexts, covering areas within environmental management, strategy, industrial ecology, and more. Using case studies, the module will cover the challenges in the integration and implementation of sustainable development. Guest speakers offer their organizational and field experiences as cases exemplifying challenges, progress and effective practice in putting SD principles into practice in diverse sectors and places. This reinforces and brings to life the conceptual learning done in the module and in the earlier Foundations and Frontiers module (ENGM064). The SDA module develops the ideas covered in ENGM064 and will facilitate a deepened understanding and consolidation of corporate environmental management, socioeconomic and political issues, spanning the public, private, and ‘third’ (civil society) sectors. This module is one of the components required for Associate Membership of IEMA and IES.

This module introduces students to the intricacies of sustainable development (SD) when applied in real life contexts, covering areas within environmental management, strategy, industrial ecology, and more. Using case studies, the module will cover the challenges in the integration and implementation of sustainable development. Guest speakers offer their organizational and field experiences as cases exemplifying challenges, progress and effective practice in putting SD principles into practice in diverse sectors and places. This reinforces and brings to life the conceptual learning done in the module and in the earlier Foundations and Frontiers module (ENGM064). The SDA module develops the ideas covered in ENGM064 and will facilitate a deepened understanding and consolidation of corporate environmental management, socioeconomic and political issues, spanning the public, private, and ‘third’ (civil society) sectors. This module is one of the components required for Associate Membership of IEMA and IES.

Knowledge is the most critical part of any decision making process, being it the process of design, management or general business. Last several decades have witnessed numerous attempts to present knowledge in the form processable by computers, starting with descriptive logic, through the production rules and ending with ontologies as the last and the latest form known today, the process known as artificial intelligence. The module will help students in consolidating all of these technologies and using them in supporting decision making in the area of student’ interest, primarily in the process of design for processing industry.

Biomass processing technologies or biorefineries include a wide range of options, including biochemical, thermochemical and catalytic reaction technologies. Starting from the core reaction technologies, a biorefinery flowsheet includes separation and purification to multi-products, and utility and reagent recovery systems. This module aims to develop conceptual design skills from unit operations through to integrated flowsheets and techno-economic analysis, using leading innovations in the field and spreadsheet-based models

This module provides an introduction to the theory and practice associated with the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas covering subsurface and topside operations.

 A teaching and learning module that covers all aspects of safety and reliability in the design and operation of process plant and equipment. Although generally applicable to the full range of business operations, the main focus is on offshore oil and gas platforms, refinery and petrochemical operations where knowledge and understanding will be gained in maintaining the highest standards of process safety and operations integrity.

Energy use and the systems put in place to supply it are responsible for the majority of the world’s emissions of carbon dioxide and hence much climate change policy is directed towards the energy sector. Energy is also central to economic development and social welfare and thus energy security and cost minimisation are high on national policy agendas. Energy markets throughout the world are also evolving rapidly, with privatisation, competition, market structure and regulation remaining prominent issues in the UK, Europe and internationally. The range of challenges for energy policy is diverse and exciting. This Module focuses on the transitions needed from the current situations in energy use, supply, markets and policy to those required as part of a long term, sustainable, low carbon energy system. The sessions will introduce the range of low carbon energy options including energy efficiency, energy storge, renewables, nuclear and carbon capture and storage. The module will explore different low-carbon scenarios and policies and how these could fit with the Sustainable Development Goals, and what barriers maybe encountered along the route to a just transition, in both the global North and South.