Postgraduate Course: Carbon Capture and Storage Group Design Project (MSc) (PGEE11079)
Course Outline
School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
Home subject area | Postgrad (School of Engineering) |
Other subject area | None |
Course website |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
Course description | This project is intended to introduce students to multidisciplinary planning and design. The project should develop creative thinking, team skills, and an improved understanding of the other disciplines involved in delivering CCS schemes and the interactions that will be required between them within the full CCS chain. Interdisciplinary teams will arrive at a detailed design for a power plant that could use CO2 capture. The course reflects rapidly emerging trends in power plant and environmental engineering allowing students to develop their ability to tackle 'real world' problems where a broad range of, sometimes competing, design requirements must be taken into account. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
Course Start Date |
16/09/2013 |
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
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Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
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No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
This course is intended to:
- encourage questioning and creative thinking;
- develop skills in problem identification and study planning;
- provide a realistic team working environment;
- further develop communication skills.
By the end of the project the student should have:
- improved team working skills;
- improved communication skills;
- a better appreciation of project planning issues;
- a better appreciation of other disciplines' involvement in CCS projects;
- understand interactions within the CCS chain at project level;
- an appetite for creative engineering and planning.
Specific technical outcomes will include
- an understanding of post-combustion capture technologies as applied in a power plant context;
- the ability to appraise, critically, these technologies in a particular setting, including assessment of cost-effectiveness.
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Assessment Information
Coursework 100% (including final report and presentation) |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
Academic description |
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Syllabus |
1 x 3 hour lecture to introduce the course.
Weekly clinic-style face-to-face tutorials for the rest of the semester, complemented by a supporting series technical presentations. Student project presentations are expected to occur during scheduled class time. Students will work in groups, with the remainder of their time spent working independently on tasks discussed and agreed with other members of their group.
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Transferable skills |
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Reading list |
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Study Abroad |
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Study Pattern |
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Keywords | CCS, carbon capture, interdisciplinary group project |
Contacts
Course organiser | Ms Hannah Chalmers
Tel: (0131 6)50 5600
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Course secretary | Mrs Kim Orsi
Tel: (0131 6)50 5687
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