Chemical Engineering

The Chemical Engineering PhD programme is offered at the the University of Huddersfield .

Key Facts:

• Completing a PhD can give you a great sense of personal achievement and help you develop a high level of transferable skills which will be useful in your subsequent career, as well as contributing to the development of knowledge in your chosen field.

• Our research degrees are available as full-time, part-time and some are offered distance learning.

• You are expected to work to an approved programme of work including appropriate programmes of postgraduate study (which may be drawn from parts of existing postgraduate courses, final year degree programmes, conferences, seminars, masterclasses, guided reading or a combination of study methods).

• This programme of research culminates in the production of a large-scale piece of written work in the form of a research thesis that should not normally exceed 80,000 words.

• You will be appointed a main supervisor who will normally be part of a supervisory team, comprising of up to three members to advise and support you on your project.

Courses include:

• Arabinoxylan extraction and characterisation

• Biodegradable textile synthesis

• Dynamic Life-Cycle Assessment of Process Industries

• Exploration of marine yeast in biofuel and biochemical synthesis

• Modelling of particle deposition on the pipe walls in crude oil transportation

• Optimization of CCU Value Chains

• Sustainability Assessment of Novel Food Processing Techniques

• The development of biorefining strategy for the production of functional biopolymer in textile and pharmaceutical industry

• Valorisation of plastic waste - a circular approach