Course overview
The course covers modern strategies for the synthesis and design of chemical / pharmaceutical processes with an emphasis on a systematic approach. The topics covered in this course are introduction to process design, process synthesis, process simulation and preliminary plant design. Students are required to complete a process design for a project using the concepts and tools covered by the lectures in groups. This practice aims to develop and improve transferable skills in problem-solving, team-working, independent learning and cooperative learning, project management, time management and technical documentation. This course is designed to challenge chemical and pharmaceutical engineering students to combine fundamental knowledge from other courses. Principles and tools for process design will be applied with practical elements of safety, environmental and sociological issues to design an integrated chemical/ pharmaceutical process.
Course learning outcomes
- Synthesize a process for manufacturing a desired product or parallel products
- Develop a variety of processing alternatives for manufacturing a desired product
- Perform process simulation using a software package
- Utilize different techniques for complex process simulation
- Complete collaboratively a preliminary process design within a given time frame
- Develop team-building skills, including leadership skills and evaluation of group performance and dynamics
- Develop oral and written communication skills
- Demonstrate awareness of ethical and contemporary issues related to the design and operation of chemical / pharmaceutical process and
- Take regulatory requirements into consideration for the process design.