Semester 1

Credits
  • Molecular Thermodynamics and Interfacial Properties
    Application of thermodynamics in chemical industries. Chemical and phase equilibrium of heterogeneous closed and open systems. Statistical Mechanics and background of equations of state and GE models. Application of equations of state to industrial uses. Experimental determination of thermodynamic properties. Modelling of thermodynamics properties. Thermodynamic and electrostatic properties of interfaces. Interactions between interfaces.
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  • Heterogeneous Kinetics
    Learning from Top to Bottom, from Applications down to Fundamentals. Project-based including heterogeneous reaction laboratory experiments (focus on simple/modern gas-solid reactions), catalyst preparation/characterization and results interpretation. Experiment with reactor design, concepts and ideas where the design being out-of-the-box and challenging. Result interpretation process allowing to analyze if the design being scientifically sensible in term of kinetics, reactor characteristics and scaling up. Prediction of reaction mechanism using models like Eley-Rideal and Langmuir Hinshelwood Mechanism, Surface reactions, Inter-particle and intra-particle diffusions.
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  • Chemical Product Design
    Categories of products in chemical engineering. Principle and procedure of product design. Steps in designing industrial and consumer products. Technology and economic concerns. Product design report and presentation.
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Semester 2

Credits
  • Molecular and Interfacial Transport Phenomena
    Transport problems involving momentum, heat, and mass transfer in chemical engineering and process engineering application. Conservation of momentum, heat, and mass transfer in laminar and turbulent flow in microscopic approach.  Equations of change for multi-component systems including charge. Moving boundary systems. Steady and transient simultaneous heat and mass transfer. Interfacial stability. Determination of transport properties. Macroscopic and Microscopic transport theories.
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  • Chemical Process Design
    Process invention heuristics and analysis including process synthesis, process simulation, process optimization, cost analysis and estimation, controllability analysis, environmental protection and safety considerations.
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Semester 3

Credits
Industrial Internship
Utilize knowledge to solve or analyze engineering problems that occur in a factory, as well as to work in an industrial environment. Students must write a working report summarizing their jobs and outcomes. To realize and understand the real nature of chemical engineering works, students will spend time for four months doing a project-based internship at qualified companies in Thailand, or in Germany. The project topic for internship will be assigned by the company prior to the start of the internship, so the students know what they are going to do and can prepare themselves in advance. Several types of project topic may be assigned e.g.

  • Problem solving in plant
  • Process optimization and improvements
  • Feasibility studies
  • Investigation on specific problems

Students will have a chance to experience the practical problems in industries and apply scientific knowledge to the real use. Past Participated Companies for Internship •   Aliseca GmbH, Germany •   Bangchak Petroleum Public Company Limited, Thailand •   Bayer Technology Services GmbH, Leverkusen Germany •   Bayer Thai Ltd., Thailand •   Cognis, Germany (now taken over by BASF) •   Cognis Thai Ltd., Thailand (now taken over by BASF) •   H.C. Starck Co., Ltd., Thailand •   PTT Plc., Research and Technology Institute, Thailand •   PTT Global Chemical Plc., Thailand •   SCG Chemicals Co., Ltd., Thailand •   Thai Ethoxylate Co., Ltd., Thailand

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Semester 4

Credits
Master Thesis
In the last semester of two-year study program, students will have learn and develop their research skills by taking a Master Thesis for a period of six months. The research topics of Master Thesis are generally industrial-related topics. They are typically initiated by researchers at TGGS, based on their personal research interests or based on special request from industries. In case of conducting the Thesis at RWTH Aachen University, the research topic will be directly assigned by the AVT professors.
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List of Elective Courses

Credits
Advanced Separation Technology
Advanced design strategies for separation processes with the following topics: Advantage of integrating unit operation, Reactive distillation, Reactive extraction, Liquid-membrane extraction, Chromatography, Simulated moving bed chromatography.
 3
Multiphase Flow
Gas-Liquid systems, fluid-solid systems, and solid-liquid-gas systems.  Design criteria for two-phase and three-phase flow systems.  Application of two-phase flow in pollution treatments.  Application of two-phase flow in separation technology.  Application of three-phase flow in fluidized bed, petrochemical process, and petroleum engineering.
 3
Advanced Process Heat Integration
Advanced topics in process heat and power integration including: Pinch analysis for maximum energy recovery, Heat exchanger network with a minimum number of units, Superstructures for minimization of annual costs, Heat integrated distillation trains, Positioning heat engines and heat pumps, Heat integration of batch process.
 3
Biochemial Engineering
Introduction to microbiology. Enzyme kinetics and deactivation. Transport phenomena in bioprocess. Interfacial mass transfer in cellular system. Growth kinetics. Fermentation and applications. Product recovery. Bioreactor design and scale-up.
 3
Membrane Technology
Principle of membrane processes.  Membrane characterization and preparation.  Dialysis and electrodialysis process. Reverse Osmosis.  Microfiltration. Ultrafiltration and nanofiltration. Pervaporation. Applications of Membrane technology in separation processes.
 3
Energy Technology for Chemical Engineers
Overview of energy situation and trends. Fundamentals of thermal energy systems and energy conversion processes in chemical industry. Principles of main energy technologies: fossil energy, solar energy, wind energy, biomass and biofuel energy, and fuel cell.
 3
Catalytic Reaction Engineering
A study of catalysis theory, application, preparation and analysis. Understanding towards scientific problems arising behind catalysis processes and systems with fashionable catalytic equipment and techniques.  Principle of heterogeneous catalysis, for instance, selectivity of catalysts, definition of catalytic activity, procedure of catalytic adsorption and desorption, kinetics of surface reactions, characterizations of catalysts and their surfaces including gas-phased probe reactions and temperature programmed reactions, the significant of pore structure and surface area in heterogeneous catalysis, the solid-state and surface chemistry of catalysis and classic catalytic reactions.
 3
Industrial Enzymology
Enzyme nomenclature. Enzyme structure. Enzyme biosynthesis and genetic information. Structure-function relationship. Enzymatic and chemical modification. Protein engineering. Enzyme purification. Enzyme kinetics. Enzymatic analysis. Measurement of enzyme activity. Enzymes in biotechnology. Heterologous enzymes. Metabolic engineering for products.
 3
Selected Topics in Chemical and Process Engineering I
Lecture by experts, studies, seminar and/or individual investigations in selected or specific areas of chemical and process engineering, including the topics concerning the new or advanced knowledge in chemical and process engineering.
 3
Selected Topics in Chemical and Process Engineering II
Lecture by experts, studies, seminar and/or individual investigations in selected or specific areas of chemical and process engineering, including the topics concerning the new or advanced knowledge in chemical and process engineering.
 3
Biorefinery
Introduction of the integrated approach required in modern biorefinery. Demonstration of the concepts biological and chemical knowledge to be applied in biorefining process. Use of conversion technologies of various types of biomass as a renewable resource to produce high value bioenergy and biochemicals. Also, the environmental, safety, health, quality and sustainability aspects, as well as the economical feasibility and reliability, and related technology development.
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Process Modeling and Simulation
Introduces the methods and techniques of dynamic model building skills for chemical and biochemical processes with the following topics: uses and benefits of system modelling, model development, models of heat transfer equipment, separation processes and reactors, steady state and dynamic models, time domain solutions, block diagram representation, modelling of control loop elements, and application of computer simulation for solutions of models.
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