Undergraduate - UnitCHE3163 - Sustainable processing I

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Synopsis

This unit will explore cleaner production and sustainability concepts, the principles of process design and development and associated flow sheets, systematic approaches to waste minimisation in process and utility systems, the methodology of life cycle assessment and application of life cycle assessment to processes and products. These themes will be developed in lectures and supported by student project work related to selected industrial processes.

Outcomes

Understand the principles of cleaner production and sustainability and apply these principles in the design and evaluation of processes and products
Be able to design and evaluate processes with emphasis on resource and energy efficiency and waste minimisation
Be able to develop and draw a detailed process flow sheet
Be able to represent the life cycle of a product using a block diagram, and identify the main environmental impacts of the life cycle.
Understand the principles of life cycle assessment and apply the methodology to processes and products.
Understand the benefits and burdens of materials recycling.

Assessment

Projects: 40%
Examination (3 hours): 60%
Students are required to achieve at least 45% in the total continuous assessment component (assignments, tests, mid-semester exams, laboratory reports) and at least 45% in the final examination component and an overall mark of 50% to achieve a pass grade in the unit. Students failing to achieve this requirement will be given a maximum of 45% in the unit.

Chief examiner(s)

Assoc Professor Karen Hapgood

Contact hours

3 hours lectures, 2 hours project work and 7 hours of private study per week

Prerequisites

CHE2162, CHE2163, CHE2164