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CHE3163
Faculty of Engineering
This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.
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Level | Undergraduate |
Faculty | Faculty of Engineering |
Organisational Unit | Department of Chemical Engineering |
Offered | Clayton First semester 2015 (Day) Malaysia First semester 2015 (Day) |
Coordinator(s) | Dr David Kearns(Clayton); Dr Poh Phaik Eong (Malaysia) |
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.
At the end of this unit, students should be able to
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.
3 hours lectures, 2 hours project work and 7 hours of private study per week
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