Carbon Capture and Transport

Start: Full-time: October. Part-time: flexible.

Duration: 1 year full-time, 2-5 years part-time.

Entry Requirements:

Applicants are required to have a minimum of a UK Higher 2nd class Honours degree or its equivalent in an engineering or related science degree. Applications from candidates with lesser qualifications but with considerable relevant work experience will be considered.

Course Description:

It is widely accepted that greenhouse gases, mainly carbon dioxide produced from burning fossil fuels, are the main contributors to climate change. Fossil fuels currently satisfy approximately 88% of the global commercial primary energy demand and in spite of the significant efforts to increase energy production from renewable sources, fossil fuels are predicted to continually play a major role in near-future energy supply. To mitigate climate change while meeting energy demand, the UK and other developed countries have set ambitious targets to reduce carbon emissions through carbon capture and storage (CCS).

The course is strongly supported by academic research. The Department of Offshore, Process and Energy Engineering has recently been granted two major UK Research Council funded projects in Carbon Capture and Carbon Transport. Cranfield University has a world class reputation for its industrial scale research and pilot-scale demonstration programmes in the Energy sector.

The taught programme is generally delivered from October to March and includes ten compulsory modules. The modules are delivered over one to two weeks of intensive delivery with the later part of the module being free from structured teaching to allow time for more independent learning and reflection.

Students on the part-time programme will complete all of the compulsory modules based on a flexible schedule that will be agreed with the Course Director.

Research thesis project

The individual research thesis project allows students to delve deeper into an area of specific interest. It is very common for industrial partners to put forward real world problems or areas of development as potential research thesis topics.

For part-time students it is common that their research thesis is undertaken in collaboration with their place of work.

Modules:

• Carbon Capture Technologies
• Carbon Transport Technologies
• Management for Technology
• Risk and Reliability Engineering
• Process Plant Operations
• Power Generation Systems
• Process Measurement Systems
• Advanced Control Systems
• Process Simulation and Design
• Computational Fluid Dynamics

Funding:

Bursaries are available, please contact the course director: Dr Meihong Wang email meihong.wang@cranfield.ac.uk

For further information, please contact tel: 01234 758252 or email opee-courses@cranfield.ac.uk

Additional content

• Specialist Energy MSc opportunities