Chemical Engineering

The course studies various flow phenomena of both fundamental and technical importance. Students acquire knowledge about classical and modern techniques for the study and analysis of technical fluid mechanical problems. Part A examines the history and scope of fluid mechanics, integral relations for a control volume, differential relations for a fluid particle, viscous flow in ducts, introduction to turbulence, boundary-layer flows, and flow around slender and bluff bodies. Part B studies incompressible inviscid flow, aerodynamic theory, compressible flow, and open-channel flow.

This course connects the microscopic description of chemical reactions with macroscopic measurable quantities and explores the processes responsible for chemical changes: molecular collisions, elementary reactions, surface phenomena, catalysis, absorption isotherms, theory of the activated complex, and diffusion controlled reactions.

The course describes pharmaceutical products and production, with an emphasis on physicochemical and chemical engineering questions. It also describes what happens to the drug product in the living organism when administered through different routes. The course focuses on different pharmaceutical formulations such as solutions, suspensions, emulsions, granulates, tablets, capsules, aerosols, and creams. The course gives an overview of the quality aspects of the pharmaceutical industry, and special requirements on the pharmaceutical industry when it comes to demands from authorities both Swedish and international. The laboratory assignments illustrate important formulation aspects and how to evaluate the quality and physical-chemical properties of the formulation. 

This course provides research training for exchange students. Students work on a research project under the guidance of assigned faculty members. Through a full-time commitment, students improve their research skills by participating in the different phases of research, including development of research plans, proposals, data analysis, and presentation of research results. A pass/no pass grade is assigned based a progress report, self-evaluation, midterm report, presentation, and final report.