MSc in Process Integration (ODL)
JPT/BPP(N-DL/524/7/0080)02/25
Go virtual with our Open Distance Learning
(ODL) Programme
- Offered with the flexibility of ONLINE classes accessible everywhere anywhere anytime.
- Study at your own pace with competitive tuition fees for local working professionals.
- Working professionals can opt for the best mode of learning to accommodate their busy schedules.
- Plus, stay in touch with our lecturers and industry experts via frequent meetings and consulting sessions at UTP’s regional Centre for Advanced and Professional Education (CAPE), Kuala Lumpur, or via ONLINE Skype/Teams.
Introduction
Process industries such as oil & gas, chemical, and petrochemical are major economic enablers and contributors. Amid rising oil and energy prices, these industries are now forced to operate nimbly in order to be globally competitive and sustainable. Going forward, designing, optimizing, and controlling new processes that offer higher efficiencies are pivotal in overcoming formidable global challenges. At UTP, MSc in Process Integration is designed to keep pace with industry-wide process system engineering challenges. As such, the programme will prepare you to face up to the challenges across multiple sectors that demand the expertise of resourceful process system engineers.
Significantly, the programme highlights the applications of recent advances in process system engineering and analysis techniques that will provide a different perspective from the outgoing conventional practices. These include heat integration, modelling, optimization, process safety, control, and operability in order to optimize the utilization of raw materials and energy to gain an edge towards sustainability. Designed in collaboration with the industry, UTP’s MSc in Process Integration helps students break through conventional thinking to plan and deliver an exciting future. Building a talent pipeline of process integration specialists. Benefit from learning objectives tied to the contours of reality-based industry situations and changes.
Join a leading feeder university for the process integration industry. Get in touch with the latest industry thinking. Grow your industry perspective with subjects grounded in day-to-day industry challenges, opportunities, and outcomes. Learn how to leverage real industry data and research evidence to provide solutions through cutting tools and techniques.
Why You Should Join Our MSc in Process Integration?
- Modular based programme.
- Programme jointly developed with relevant industrial custodian engineers.
- Enjoy free access to other specialisation clusters’ short-courses and modules offered under the programme.
- Choose between the two options below:
- Carry out an individual design project across a 4-month industrial attachment with a hosting company, OR
- Carry out a design project using real industry-derived data
Course Duration and Offering
This course is available both Full-Time and Part-Time.
ODL |
12 months |
36 months |
Entry Requirements
i. A bachelor’s degree with a minimum CGPA of 2.50 or equivalent, or
ii. A bachelor’s degree or equivalent not meeting a CGPA of 2.50, can be accepted subject to a minimum of 5 years of working experience in a relevant field.
Fee Structure
Local Students
International Students
Programme Curriculum Structure
1 |
Discipline Core (Engineering Core) |
5 |
10 |
25 |
2 |
Technical Elective (Engineering Core) |
4 |
12 |
30 |
3 |
Design Project (Project) |
1 |
12 |
30 |
4 |
University Requirement |
2 |
4 |
10 |
5 |
University's Requirement (Research Methodology) |
1
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2
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5
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Subject by Semester
Semester (Weeks) |
Course Name |
Code |
Credit Hours |
1
(14)
|
Heat Integration |
OAI5012 |
2 |
Modelling |
OAI5022 |
2 |
Optimization |
OAI5052 |
2 |
Operability & Control |
OAI5032 |
2 |
Process Safety |
OAI5042 |
2 |
University Requirement I |
|
2 |
2
(14)
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University Requirement II |
|
2 |
Technical Elective I |
Refer to Technical Electives
|
3 |
Technical Elective II |
3 |
Technical III |
3 |
Technical IV |
3 |
3
(14) |
Design Project |
OAI541C |
12 |
Research Methodology |
OAN5032 |
2 |
Sub-Total |
14 |
Technical Electives and University Requirement
Please choose any FOUR (4) for technical electives below.
Technical Electives |
12 |
Specialization 1: Environmental Process Design
|
Cleaner Production |
OAI5173 |
3 |
Environmental Design for Atmospheric Emissions |
OAI5183 |
3
|
Environmental Design for Aqueous Emissions |
OAI5193 |
3 |
Synthesis of Reaction-Separation Systems |
OAI5153 |
3 |
Specialization 2: Advanced Chemical Process Design |
Synthesis of Reaction-Separation Systems |
OAI5153 |
3 |
Advanced Distillation Design |
OAI5133 |
3 |
Design of Fine and Speciality Chemicals Processes |
OAI5163 |
3
|
Cogeneration and Site Utility Systems |
OAI5143 |
3 |
Specialization 3: Refinery Design & Operation |
Refinery and Petrochemical Processes |
OAI5113 |
3 |
Refinery Optimisation |
OAI5123 |
3 |
Advanced Distillation Design |
OAI5133 |
3 |
Cogeneration and Site Utility Systems |
OAI5143 |
3 |
University Requirement |
4 |
Data Analytics |
DAM5362 |
2 |
Project Management |
OAU5052 |
2 |
Programme Module Synopsis
OAI5022
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Modelling
|
2 credits |
Overview of Modeling Concept; Mathematical Modeling, model Building, Development Constitutive relations by experiment and correlation, Sensitivity and simulation Analysis, Chemical Modeling, Pressure-Volume-Temperature, Phase equilibrium & thermodynamic properties, Liquid phase nonideality.
|
OAI5012
|
Heat Integration
|
2 credits |
Introduction to Heat Integration, Energy Targets, pinch design Methods, Capital Cost Targeting, Automated Design, Integration of Heat Engine and Heat Pumps, Integration of Reactors and Separators, Process Modifications, Data Extraction.
|
OAI5052
|
Optimisation
|
2 credits |
Overview on Optimisation Basics, Theory and Methods, Model Building, Applications.
|
OAI5042
|
Process Safety
|
2 credits |
Overview on Safety, Toxic Hazards, Release Modeling, Fire and Explosion, Pressure Relief System, Reactor Safety, Storage, Hazard Identification, Risk Assessment.
|
OAI5032
|
Operability and Control
|
2 credits |
Introduction, Control Configuration, Unit Operation Control, Control of Complete Processes, Dynamic Behaviour, Feedback Controller design, model Based Control, MIMO Systems, Operability and Continuous Process.
|
OAI5173
|
Cleaner Production
|
3 credits |
Introduction, Waste Identification and Minimisation, Life Cycle Assessment, Materials Recycling, Legislative and Economic Aspects of Cleaner Production, Industrial Ecology.
|
OAI5193
|
Environmental Design for Aqueous Emissions
|
3 credits |
Wastewater Minimisation, Effluent Treatment System Design, Waste Minimisation.
|
OAI5183
|
Environmental Design for Atmospheric Emissions
|
3 credits |
Introduction, Remediation Processes, Control of VOC, Emissions, Control of Nox, Emissions, Control of Flue Gas Emissions.
|
OAI5153
|
Synthesis of Reaction –Separation Systems
|
3 credits |
Process Economics, Choice of Reactor, choice of Separator, Synthesis of Reaction-Separation Systems, Reactive Distillation, Economic trade-offs, reducing Process Hazards.
|
OAI5133
|
Advance Distillation Design
|
3 credits |
Distillation Design, Column Sequencing, Thermodynamic Analysis of the Distillation Column, Crude Oil Distillation Design, Retrofit Design of Distillation Systems, Representation of Ternary Mixtures, Azeotropic Distillation Sequence Synthesis.
|
OAI5163
|
Design of Fine and Speciality Chemicals Processes
|
3 credits |
Introduction, Batch Unit Operations, Bioprocess Technology, Batch Process Synthesis, Scheduling of Batch Processes, Batch Plant Engineering, Environmental Protection.
|
OAI5143
|
Cogeneration and Site Utility Systems
|
2 credits |
Introduction to Cogeneration and Site Utility Systems, Furnaces, steam Systems, Site Composite Curves, Optimizing Steam levels, Top Level Analysis, Site Retrofit, Gas Turbine Integration, Driver selection, Site Power to Heat Ratio, Refrigeration Systems.
|
OAI5123
|
Refinery Optimisation
|
3 credits |
Refinery Processes and Operation, General System Representation and Simulation, Modeling of Large Systems, Rigorous Models vs Simple Models, Advanced Mathematical Programming, Applications.
|
OAI5113
|
Refinery and Petrochemical Processes
|
3 credits |
Crude Oil and Refinery Product, Crude Oil Distillation, Octane Processes, Hydroprocessing, Heavy End Processes, Light End Processes, Lube Oils, Sulphur Recovery, Petrochemical Processes, Refinery Integration, Hydrogen Integration.
|
OAI541C
|
Design Projects
|
12 credits |
Practical Aspects – applying process design tools in design projects.
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OAU5052
|
Project Management
|
2 credits |
In today's environment, the certainty of change is without precedent. As such, managers in contemporary organizations have to embrace project management in enhancing organizational effectiveness and the success of their energy management. Energy projects have to be delivered on schedule, within budget, with the required performance capability, and compliant with quality, environmental, safety and health standards. The need to place energy management in the context of the design, strategies, and execution of project management is compelling.
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DAM5362
|
Data Analytics
|
2 credits |
The course provides a thorough understanding process, content, concepts, techniques, issues, and challenges involved in big data analytics, prepares students to be technically competent in analyzing data, and prepares students to improve management decision-making using data analytics tools.
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Career Opportunities
Graduates with an MSc in Process Integration degree will enhance their employment and career prospects in the process industries. The degree is also a good starting point for a career in research and academia.
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CONTACT
Programme Manager
Assoc Prof Dr Haslinda Zabiri
Email:
haslindazabiri@utp.edu.my

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Last updated on 19 May 2022