CDP - Chemical Development and Production

The CDP team at the School of Engineering and Architecture Fribourg (HEIA-FR) develops efficient and robust syntheses of given molecules respecting economic and ecologic aspects. This includes thorough analytical work (e.g. off-line and on-line process control, product characterisation), process characterisation regarding safety and kinetics, synthetic work (route finding, route enabling and optimisation), and engineering aspects (e.g. reaction engineering, separation & purification technologies, smart process automation).

Master graduates will be able to:

• Enable and optimise synthetic protocols stemming from the research lab. They possess the ability to search and evaluate new synthetic pathways including catalysis and green chemistry in a vision of sustainability.
• Evaluate safety aspects of chemical processes and products.
• Understand and apply chemical analytics, data treatment with chemometric methodologies and optimize synthetic routes by automated experimentation based on statistical design.
• Use and develop methodologies for industrial scale-up of reactions and purification processes.
• Establish standard operation procedures, risk analysis, and cost analysis taking in account regulatory aspects.
• Design and implement a chemical production unit by integrating automation and process control.

The schedule is available here and the modules with their descriptions can all be found here. Modules are organized according the following structure:

First year*

Second year*

Additional information about the interdisciplinary project (module PI01) and about the Master thesis (modules X02 and X03) is available on the main page of the Master.

* Part-time students split the program of the first year across two year and complete the Master thesis full-time during the third year.

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