Industrial Process Engineering, Specialization Course

This course will give an introduction in industrial processes of importance for the Norwegian petroleum, process, and onshore industry. The topics in this course will connect our research activity with activities of importance for the process industry (energy utilisation, process integration), oil/gas (LNG, gas processing, multi phase transport, and gas hydrates), fishery and aquaculture (refrigeration and heat pump systems), food industry (processing, drying, heat pumping and refrigeration systems) and refrigeration industry (environmentally friendly heat pumps end refrigeration systems). The interaction between modelling, simulation and laboratory activity will be emphasized (laboratories of dewatering, refrigeration, food engineering and multi phase flow). The project and the following master thesis will be adapted individually for each student within a wide range of activity such as: laboratory work, concept study, modelling, programming, simulation etc. Internationalisation will be emphasized together with cooperation with SINTEF and Norwegian industry.

Knowledge:

The course provides the student with knowledge within one or several areas of competence:

- Gas processing and LNG

- Refrigeration components and systems

- Refrigeration systems and processes in the food industry

- Dewatering and drying engineering

- Multi phase flow

- Industrial heat engineering

Skills:

The course should enable the student to:

- Analyses, design and operation of industrial processes and components

- Developing and implementation of new technology in industrial processes

- Ability to go deep in theoretic and/or practice within a specific topic by use of scientific methods, own experiments or develop models for detailed analyses

- Ability to perform larger independent projects inclusive project plans with milestones, reporting results and write a scientific report according standards

General competence:

The course should give the student:

- After fulfilled topics the student will have a detailed knowledge about the selected industrial process. The student will be able to use this competence in projects where these topics are integrated as components or technology elements.

The course consists of two modules at 3.75 ECTS credits each. Only students writing Project have acccess to specialization courses. Choice of modules is to be performed in consultation with the supervisor of the specialization project. Modules should normally be chosen among the modules offered by the Department of Energy and Process Engineering.It is also possible to combine with modules from other departments at NTNU. The different courses will be lectures supplied with study groups, mini seminars and laboratory work. Some of the modules can have limitation in the number of students. The lectures and exercises are in English when students who do not speak Norwegian take the course. If the teaching is given in English the Examination papers will be given in English only. Students are free to choose Norwegian or English for written assessments. If there is a re-sit examination, the examination form may be changed from written to oral.