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Session: 2022/23

Last modified: 15/07/2022 11:20:07

Title of Module: Process Design, Sustainability and Safety

Code: ENGG11037 SCQF Level: 11
(Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework)		 Credit Points: 20 ECTS: 10
(European Credit Transfer Scheme)
School:School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences
Module Co-ordinator:Li  Sun

Summary of Module

The focus of the module is the safe design of chemical processes to ensure green and sustainable approach to the design and operation of chemical plants. This requires a multi-disciplinary approach to the design process that is informed by engineering, safety, environmental, economic and societal constraints. 

The module reviews the fundamentals of chemical process design including process flowsheeting, process synthesis heuristics, design data, design standards, economic constraints, environmental considerations, and the ethical responsibility of the design engineer towards the society and the environment both locally and globally.

The module covers modern tools used to enhance process safety, improve product quality, and reduce waste generation and resources usage, and develop innovative approaches and the understanding of how to combine and apply different principles such as sustainability, economics, and safety to novel and complex situations with cultural, societal, environmental and commercials considerations.

Process Integration and Synthesis: Pinch analysis techniques, mass targeting; resources, energy and waste minimisation; recycle network and mass exchange network design, and sustainable process design.

Process Intensification: Principles and applications, miniaturisation and micro-processing, mechanisms involved in process intensifications, intensification of reactors, heat exchangers, mixers, and separation processes.

Inherently Safer Process Design: ISD concepts and fundamentals, techniques for ISD implementation and applications to wider engineering disciplines. 

Safety Management Systems (SMS): Management of safety during change. Investigation of chemical process incidents. Human errors.

Computer aided process design, analysis and optimisation for sustainable process design.

Topics such as process optimisation are also discussed.

  • I am UWS (https://www.uws.ac.uk/current-students/your-graduate-attributes/): Upon completing this module the students will be equipped with tools that will help them in their journey to be work-ready, successful and universal. The module develops critical thinking and analytical skills that enhance the students’ ability to deal with complicated issues and make them problem solvers. It encourages them to become motivated, innovative, autonomous, inquisitive, creative and imaginative. The module and the teaching approach encourage collaborative working, effective communications, resilience and perseverance, and development of research and inquiry skills. The aim is to produce graduates who are knowledgeable with excellent digital skills fit for the 21st century and aware of the global context in which they operate and the challenges that face humanity in the 21st century in the areas of water, food, energy, environment and well-being, who strive to lead, influence and dare to make transformational changes while being ethically-minded, socially responsible, critically aware of the environmental and social impacts of their decisions and actions, and culturally sensitive.


Module Delivery Method
Face-To-FaceBlendedFully OnlineHybridCHybridOWork-based Learning
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Face-To-Face
Term used to describe the traditional classroom environment where the students and the lecturer meet synchronously in the same room for the whole provision.

Blended
A mode of delivery of a module or a programme that involves online and face-to-face delivery of learning, teaching and assessment activities, student support and feedback. A programme may be considered “blended” if it includes a combination of face-to-face, online and blended modules. If an online programme has any compulsory face-to-face and campus elements it must be described as blended with clearly articulated delivery information to manage student expectations

Fully Online
Instruction that is solely delivered by web-based or internet-based technologies. This term is used to describe the previously used terms distance learning and e learning.

HybridC
Online with mandatory face-to-face learning on Campus

HybridO
Online with optional face-to-face learning on Campus

Work-based Learning
Learning activities where the main location for the learning experience is in the workplace.


Campus(es) for Module Delivery
The module will normally be offered on the following campuses / or by Distance/Online Learning: (Provided viable student numbers permit)
Paisley:Ayr:Dumfries:Lanarkshire:London:Distance/Online Learning:Other:
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Term(s) for Module Delivery
(Provided viable student numbers permit).
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Learning Outcomes: (maximum of 5 statements)

On successful completion of this module the student will be able to:

L1. Develop a critical knowledge of understanding advanced safe and sustainable process design technologies, and the evaluation of the environmental and societal impact of solutions to complex problems.

L2. Develop advanced and critical knowledge of the role played by Process Design and Safety principles in the design and analysis of systems that will also take into consideration issues such as economics, environmental protection, resources conservation and sustainability.

L3. Develop the underlying knowledge that will enable the design and analysis of systems even in the cases of missing and incomplete data through research and innovation with financial and other risks considerations.

L4. Develop the advanced skill required to use modern tools in the design of engineering systems with critical understanding of their scope and limitations.

L5. Develop critical understanding and a broad knowledge of emerging design and safety technologies and their fit for purpose and limitations, and be able to communicate it to a variety of audiences.

Employability Skills and Personal Development Planning (PDP) Skills
SCQF Headings During completion of this module, there will be an opportunity to achieve core skills in:
Knowledge and Understanding (K and U) SCQF Level 11.

Demonstrate:
• A Critical knowledge that covers and integrates most of the main areas of the discipline of Process Design,sustainability and Safety and their relevance and application in chemical engineering context and at advance level.
• A critical understanding of the principal theories, concepts and principles of advanced Process Design,sustainability and Safety.
• A critical understanding of a range of specialised theories, concepts and principles applied to Process Design,sustainability and Safety.
• Extensive, detailed and critical knowledge and understanding of the role of Process Design,sustainability and Safety in engineering applications as well as in other areas such as the environment..
• Develop a critical understanding of the implication of knowledge of Process Design,sustainability and Safety principles in the advancement of modern and innovative chemical process design, conservation of resources and sustainability.

Practice: Applied Knowledge and Understanding SCQF Level 11.

• Use a significant range of the core engineering knowledge and skills to advance the knowledge of Process Design,sustainability and Safety and its application in engineering context.
• The ability to use a range of specialised skills, techniques, practices and/or materials that are informed by the recent advances in the chemical process field in general and in Process Design,sustainability and Safety in particular.
• Apply a range of standard and specialised research and other techniques to advance the understanding and proper utilisation of Process Design,sustainability and Safety fundamentals.
• Plan, develop and execute a chemical process design based on advanced knowledge, research and innovation.
• Demonstrate originality, creativity and critical thinking.
• Apply knowledge of Process Design,sustainability and Safety in a wide variety of chemical engineering applications that demand innovation.

Generic Cognitive skills SCQF Level 11.

• Apply critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis to forefront issues, or issues that are informed by forefront developments in the area of Process Design,sustainability and Safety and the interaction with the engineering aspects of the profession.
• Practice at a high level the ability to critically identify, analyse, conceptualise and define new and abstract problems related to Process Design,sustainability and Safety and the application of the concepts in chemical engineering context.
• Develop and demonstrate original and creative thinking and responses in dealing with complex or novel problems and issues.
• Critically review, consolidate and extend knowledge, skills, practices and thinking in the field of Process Design,sustainability and Safety.
• Deal with complex issues and make informed judgements in situations involving the absence of complete or consistent data/information through innovation and research.

Communication, ICT and Numeracy Skills SCQF Level 11.

• Communicate, using appropriate methods, to a range of audiences with different levels of knowledge/expertise.
vCommunicate with peers, more senior colleagues and specialists.
• Use a wide range of ICT applications to support and enhance work at this level and show critical understanding of the scope and limitations of the tools used and their underlying theoretical basis.
• Undertake critical evaluations of a wide range of numerical and graphical data with the ability to deal with situations involving missing data and lack of information using research.

Autonomy, Accountability and Working with others SCQF Level 11.

• Exercise high level of autonomy and initiative in professional and equivalent activities with the ability to work independently on significant and demanding tasks.
• Take responsibility for own work and/or significant responsibility for the work of others providing leadership.
• Take responsibility for a significant range of resources
• Demonstrate leadership and/or initiative and make an identifiable contribution to change and development
• Practise in ways which draw on critical reflection on own and others’ roles and responsibilities.
• Deal with complex ethical and professional issues in engineering context and make informed judgements on issues not addressed by current professional and/or ethical codes or practices.

Pre-requisites: Before undertaking this module the student should have undertaken the following:
Module Code:
Module Title:
Other:
Co-requisitesModule Code:
Module Title:

* Indicates that module descriptor is not published.

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Learning and Teaching
This module covers a wide variety of theoretical, conceptual and practical areas, which require a range of knowledge and skills at a more advanced level to be displayed and exercised. Delivery of its syllabus content therefore involves a diversity of teaching and assessment methods suitable to the learning outcomes of the module; these include formal lectures, structured tutorials, open ended problem solving, flipped class teaching directly related to assessment tasks, practical exercises in calculation and modelling linked to the analysis of equipment performance, completion and submission of written coursework making use of appropriate forms of IT and VLE, and independent study.
Learning Activities
During completion of this module, the learning activities undertaken to achieve the module learning outcomes are stated below: 		Student Learning Hours
(Normally totalling 200 hours):
(Note: Learning hours include both contact hours and hours spent on other learning activities)
Lecture/Core Content Delivery24
Tutorial/Synchronous Support Activity12
Independent Study164
200 Hours Total

**Indicative Resources: (eg. Core text, journals, internet access)

The following materials form essential underpinning for the module content and ultimately for the learning outcomes:

Crowl, D. A. and Louvar J. F. (2019) Chemical Process Safety: Fundamentals with Applications. 4nd Edition, Boston, Mass.; London: Prentice Hall.

Reay, D. A., Ramshaw C.and Harvey A. (2013) Process Intensification: Engineering for Efficiency, Sustainability and Flexibility. 2nd Edition, Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann.

El-Halwagi, M. (2017) Sustainable Design through Process Integration : Fundamentals and Applications to Industrial Pollution Prevention, Resource Conservation, and Profitability Enhancement. 2nd Edition, Amsterdam : Elsevier.

Seider, W. D., Lewin D. R., Seader J. D., Widagdo S., Gani R., and Ming NG K.A. NG. (2019) Product & Process Design Principles: Synthesis, Analysis and Evaluation. N.J.: Wiley.

Kletz, T. and Amyotte P. (2010) Process Plants: A Handbook for Inherently Safer Design. 2nd Edition, Boca Raton, Fla.; London: CRC Press.

Mannan, S. (2012) Lee’s Loss Prevention in the Process Industries: Hazard Identification, Assessment and Control. 4th Edition, Butterworth-Heinemann.

(**N.B. Although reading lists should include current publications, students are advised (particularly for material marked with an asterisk*) to wait until the start of session for confirmation of the most up-to-date material)

Engagement Requirements

In line with the Academic Engagement Procedure, Students are defined as academically engaged if they are regularly engaged with timetabled teaching sessions, course-related learning resources including those in the Library and on the relevant learning platform, and complete assessments and submit these on time. Please refer to the Academic Engagement Procedure at the following link: Academic engagement procedure

Where a module has Professional, Statutory or Regulatory Body requirements these will be listed here:
Students are expected to attend all timetabled sessions and to engage with all formative and summative assessment elements.

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Supplemental Information

Programme BoardEngineering
Assessment Results (Pass/Fail) No
Subject PanelEngineering
ModeratorAndy Durrant
External ExaminerR Ocone
Accreditation DetailsThis module is part of the MSc in Chemical Engineering accredited by the IChemE
Version Number

3

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Assessment: (also refer to Assessment Outcomes Grids below)
Assessment for the module includes both formative and summative assessment.
Formative assessment is provided during lectures in the form of class quizzes and exercise problems, during tutorial sessions, during CAD sessions and as part of the preparation for written submissions.
Summative assessment is provided by written assessment elements as well as a final exam.

Assessment Category 1:
Final exam worth 70% of the final mark.
Assessment Category 2:
Continuous assessment presentation (poster) and assignment worth 30%.
(N.B. (i) Assessment Outcomes Grids for the module (one for each component) can be found below which clearly demonstrate how the learning outcomes of the module will be assessed.
(ii) An indicative schedule listing approximate times within the academic calendar when assessment is likely to feature will be provided within the Student Handbook.)

Assessment Outcome Grids (Footnote A.)

Component 1
Assessment Type (Footnote B.) Learning Outcome (1) Learning Outcome (2) Learning Outcome (3) Learning Outcome (4) Learning Outcome (5) Weighting (%) of Assessment ElementTimetabled Contact Hours
Unseen open bookcheck markcheck mark  check mark703

Component 2
Assessment Type (Footnote B.) Learning Outcome (1) Learning Outcome (2) Learning Outcome (3) Learning Outcome (4) Learning Outcome (5) Weighting (%) of Assessment ElementTimetabled Contact Hours
Design/ Diagram/ Drawing/ Photograph/ Sketchcheck markcheck markcheck markcheck mark 200
Presentation  check markcheck markcheck mark100
Combined Total For All Components100% 3 hours

Footnotes
A. Referred to within Assessment Section above
B. Identified in the Learning Outcome Section above

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Note(s):
  1. More than one assessment method can be used to assess individual learning outcomes.
  2. Schools are responsible for determining student contact hours. Please refer to University Policy on contact hours (extract contained within section 10 of the Module Descriptor guidance note).
    This will normally be variable across Schools, dependent on Programmes &/or Professional requirements.

Equality and Diversity
The programme team have considered how the programme meets the requirements of potential students irrespective of age, disability, political belief, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, social background or any other protected characteristic. Students/participants with special needs (including additional learning needs) will be assessed/accommodated and any identified barriers to particular groups of students/participants discussed with the Enabling Support Unit (for further details, please refer to the UWS Equality, Diversity and Human Rights policy). Further guidance is available from UWS Health and Safety Services, CAPLeD, Student Services, School Disability Co-ordinators or the University’s Equality and Diversity Co-ordinator.
UWS Equality and Diversity Policy
(N.B. Every effort will be made by the University to accommodate any equality and diversity issues brought to the attention of the School)

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