Chemical Engineering and Technology

（Frist-Level Discipline, Research）(0817)

 

I. Objectives

Through the study of the MS degree, the students are able to master the solid  fundamental and professional knowledge relevant to chemical engineering and technology, be familiar with the research progress and development potentials of the  present disciplines, master the related research methodology and experimental skills,  and be cultivated the high-level, application-oriented talents with innovative thoughts of science and technology. The students are trained to master one foreign language for reading foreign literature and writing thesis.

 

II. Specialty and Research Direction

A. Specialty

1. Chemical Engineering (subordinate discipline, code: 081701)

2. Chemical Technology (subordinate discipline, code: 081702)

3. Applied Chemistry (subordinate discipline, code: 081703)

4. Industrial Catalysis (subordinate discipline, code: 081704)

5. Biochemical Engineering (subordinate discipline, code: 081705)

B. Research Direction

1. Chemical Engineering

Mass Transfer and Separating Process

Students can be engaged in both theoretical and experimental research of mass transfer and separating process in the fields of chemical industry, petrochemical production, light industry, pharmacy, biologics, food industry, environmental engineering, etc. Also, students can be engaged in basic or applied research of novel separation technique such as membrane separation technique and supercritical fluid extraction. Furthermore, students can also be engaged in the development of the tower equipment and popularization of the research results mentioned above.

This research area mainly includes the theory and mechanism of mass transfer, intensification of mass transfer and separating process, and development of novel effective separation technique.

Chemical Reactor Engineering

This research area mainly includes the calculation of momentum, heat and mass transfer in monophase or multiphase stirred tanks or reactors, the modeling, optimization and magnification of stirred tanks or reactors as well as the development of novel reactors.

Chemical Process System Engineering

This research area includes chemical process simulation and optimization and synthesis of heat exchanger networks.

2. Chemical Technology

Clean Chemical Process

This research area mainly includes green reaction process, green separation technology as well as the development of environmental tanning agent and novel clean leather technology.

New Chemical Materials and Technology

This research area includes the preparation, characterization, and application of new inorganic, organic, or composite materials such as phase change storage materials, adsorbents, purifying agents, and organic - inorganic nanometer compound materials, especially pays attention to the development of new-energy chemical materials and materials for chemical separation.

Natural Products and Separation Technology

Apply advanced extraction and purification technology to separate the active components of animals and plants, to study their physicochemical properties, structures, biological activities, structural modifications, and structure-activity relationships, and to develop new industrial technologies of producing natural plant and animal components.

Extract various effective components from natural animals and plants, and identify their structures.

Develop food additives, health products, drugs, etc.

Control Environmental pollutants in chemical process.

3. Applied Chemistry

Fine chemicals and technology

The field is mainly about the research and development of surface-active agents, dyes and pigments, coatings, adhesives, pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical intermediates.

Drug molecular design and synthesis

This field is mainly about the new drugs screening through molecular design, synthesis, biological activity test and the structure-activity relationship analysis.

The Detection and control of organic pollutants

This field is mainly about the organic chemical pollutants` detection, monitoring and repair mechanism research, and it also studies the environment impact and the tendency of organic pollutants.

4. Industrial Catalysis

New catalytic materials and technologies

Find new environmental friendly methods of new catalysis materials` preparation based on the study in new catalysis materials` design, preparation and the relationship between their structures and properties. By molecular-assembly, supramolecular chemistry templates, microemulsion chemistry, organometallic chemistry, sol - gel chemistry, study the novel porous catalytic materials and prepare organic catalytic metal materials and nano-catalytic materials. Apply photocatalytic degradation technology, immobilization of enzymes on mesoporous technology supercritical fluid technology to enzymatic catalysis rections.

Petrochemical catalysts

Design, preparation and development of catalysts used in petrochemical industry research, and achieve green catalytic process to solve the comprehensive utilization of petroleum resources, new product development theory and engineering problems with catalytic technology.

Organic and fine chemical catalysts

Studying fine chemical catalyst and developing new catalytic technology, changing the traditional synthesis to a more efficient way of synthesizing the target product to achieve atom economy, and achieve zero emissions.

5. Biochemical Engineering

Enzyme Chemical Engineering

Main research: the technology of biochemical engineering such as enzyme immobilization, enzyme-catalyzed chiral drug synthesis and kinetic resolution, biocatalytic process and enzyme-catalyzed reaction in ionic solutions or supercritical fluid.

Biochemistry and Biological Safety Engineering

This research mainly focus on the compounds regulation to organism on the body level and proteins or genes on the molecule level, the influence of natural biosynthetic and artificial chemical compounds to organism and different mechanism to find corresponding methods for the effective utilization of compound and the security assurance of organism and provide theoretical basis for the development and production of biological chemical engineering products.

Biological pharmaceutical engineering

Detect, stimulate and control biological pharmaceutical process. Apply the new separation technology such as supercritical fluid extraction technique, ultrasonic to the biological pharmacy, biological product and traditional Chinese medicine and improve the separation technology in the pharmacy field.

 

III. Educational System and Duration

The normal duration is 3 years. The length of study period is 2 to 5 years (including absence, leave school, postpone graduation time). And the thesis occupied more than 1 year (from dissertation to defense).

 

IV. Credits and Curriculum

Master's degree courses and postgraduate courses include compulsory courses and optional courses. And the compulsory courses consist of public courses, specialized courses and degree courses about frontier topics. 18-32 hours for public classes are calculated as 1 credit, every 16 hours for professional courses as 1 credit and every 32 hours for experimental courses as 1 credit.

The master student must obtain at least 31 credits, including 21 credits of compulsory courses and 10 credits of optional courses.

 

V. Mid-term screening

Mid-term screening is carried out for summarizing the study achievement since the postgraduate entrance, discovering and solving the problems in cultivation, making the graduates begin essay writing without problems, ensuring the quality of postgraduate cultivation. The mid-term screening should be completed before the twelfth weeks in the third semester and should be implemented under the specific regulations according to the master's degree candidate screening measures of Qilu University of Technology .

 

VI. Thesis-writing   

Thesis writing, as an important part of the graduate program, demonstrates students ability to do scientific research and hands-on work. M.S. candidates should complete thesis independently under the direction of their mentors. The thesis should adequately reflect that the graduate student has met all the requirements set in the graduate program. Thesis research work time（from starting thesis proposal to finishing paper defending） shall not be less than one year. More details are in the ‘The Provisions for Master Candidates to Apply Academic Degree of Qilu University of Technology (Third Edition)’.

 

VII. Others

1. Teaching practice or research practice or social practice

Choose one among teaching practice, research and practice, social practice.

Teaching practice

Practice is an important part in train graduates` teaching ability. The students must participate in the forefront teaching (including as a teaching assistant, answering questions, correcting homework, and guiding experiments and thesis, etc.). The training time should be equivalent to at least 16 school hours which is generally arranged in the first and second school year. After the practice, students are required to write at least 1500 words of practice summary, fill out the "Qilu University of Technology", examined by the tutors and finally submitted to Graduate Department for approval.

Research Practice

College or tutors must arrange research practice for graduates, not less than three weeks. It is generally arranged in the first and second academic year. Research practice must be independent with dissertations. After the practice, students must write a summary report of the practice in no less than 3,000 words, fill out the "Qilu university of Technology postgraduate research practice evaluation form", examined by the tutors and finally submitted to Graduate Department for approval.

Social practice

Social practice refers to a part-time management positions in campus, the specific requirements separately.

 

2. Academic Activities

Academic activities include two aspects: graduate seminars or to listen to an academic report about domestic or oversea, cutting-edged disciplines or the related. Academic activities spread over the whole studying of graduate students. Everyone must do lectures at least two times and listen to academic reports at least 10 times during studying. Graduate should honestly fill out the "graduate academic activities assessment form", examined by the tutors and finally submitted to Graduate Department for approval.

 

VIII. Research Requirements

Before application for thesis defense, graduate students are required to complete at least one of the following research results:

1. The thesis of the graduate student should be published (at least be accepted) by a magazine SCI or EI and the graduate student should be the first author (or the mentor be the first author, and the graduate student be the second). The unit must be signed by Qilu University of Technology. And the content of the paper must be related to the dissertation.

2. If one were the main researchers (top three), one must get more than one scientific/technological awards at least at the level of the bureau. All awards must be subject to the certification.

If one were the main researchers (top two), one must get at least one authorized invention patent and its content must be related to the dissertation.

 

Ⅸ. Teaching (training) Week Calendar

 

Ⅹ. Professional reading

Periodicals

1. Chin.J.Chem.Eng.

2. Acta Chim. Sinica .

3. CIESC Journal.

4. Chemical Journal of Chinese Universities.

5. Journal of Chemical Engineering of Chinese Universities.

6. Chemical Engineering.

7. SCIENCE CHINA .(B, E) .

8. Fine Chemicals.

9. Chemical Industry and Engineering Progress.

10. Modern Chemical Industry.

11. Acta Petrolei Sinica. (Petroleum Processing Section) .

12. China Environmental Science.

13. Chinese Journal of Materials Research.

14. Chinese Journal of Pharmaceuticals.

15. Chemistry Online.

16. Chinese Journal of Applied Chemistry.

17. Oilfield Chemistry.

18. Journal of Inorganic Materials.

19. Chinese Journal of Inorganic Chemistry.

20. Polymer Materials Science & Engineering.

21. Journal of Functional Polymers.

22. Acta Polymerica Sinica.

23. Chem.Eng.Sci.

24. J.A.C.S.

25. Pure & Applied Chem.

26. Macromolecules.

27. Oil and Gas J.

28. Society of Pet.Eng.

29. Inorg.Chem.

30. Chem.Engineering.

31. Separation and Purification Methods

32. J.Applied Polymer Sci.

33. J.Colloid & Interface Sci.

34. J.Polymer Sci.(A、B) .

35. Polymer.

36. J.Org.Chem.

37. Applied Catalysis.

38. J. Catalysis.

39. Water & Waste Treatment.

40. J. Coatings Technology.

Bibliography

1. Chemical Reaction Engineering edited by Ganche Chen

2. Fluid Mechanics in Chemical Engineering edited by Minghen Chen

3. Higher Reaction Engineering edited by Changqiao Zhang

4. Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics edited by Xinzhi Chen

5. Physical Organic Chemistry edited by Zhenhen Gao

6. Applied of Colloid Chemistry edited by Wanguo Hou

7. Surfactant and Its Application in Oil Field edited by Yunfeng Wang

8. Marine Resource Chemistry edited by Yusan Sun

9. Separation Process Chemistry edited by Jiufang Lu

10. Solid Chemistry edited by Mengkai Lv

11. The Theory of Polymer Chemistry and Its Application Development edited by Guantai Jin

12. Pharmaceutical Chemistry edited by Hongming Zhang

13. Barry M.Trost: Comprehensive Organic Synthesis, Vol.1-9

14. E.J.Cprey: Logic of Chemical Synthesis

 

The List of Compulsory and Optional Courses