Green Chemistry, Energy and the Environment

Study mode:On campus Study type:Full-time Languages: English
Local:$ 13.2 k / Year(s) Foreign:$ 37 k / Year(s)  
11 place StudyQA ranking:3736 Duration:1 year

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Chemistry plays a pivotal role in determining the quality of modern life. The chemicals industry and other related industries supply us with a huge variety of essential products, from plastics to pharmaceuticals. However, these industries have the potential to seriously damage our environment.

This has resulted in a growing demand from society for a reduced reliance on fossil fuels and for greener manufacturing processes. There is also a need for future innovations to be built on more sustainable foundations.

Green chemistry therefore serves to promote the design and efficient use of environmentally benign chemicals and chemical processes.

This course is designed to introduce you to all aspects of sustainable chemical practices, with nine months dedicated to a research project in a green chemistry area.

Graduates of this course can expect to have all the necessary skills and experience to apply green chemical technologies in either commercial or academic laboratories, the research project in particular equipping them admirably for PhD studies.

This multidisciplinary one-year course features the involvement of several world-class departments at Imperial including Chemical Engineering, Biology and Environmental Policy.

Taught modules cover topics as diverse as:

  • clean solvents
  • renewable chemical feedstocks
  • environmental chemistry
  • biotechnology
  • renewable energy resources (including solar devices and fuel cells)
  • biofuels
  • water treatment
  • carbon capture strategies
  • environmental technologies

The nine-month research project is the central focus of the course, serving as an excellent training for PhD studies or working in industry. The project is often carried out under the supervision of academics with complementary research expertise (e.g. chemistry and chemical engineering) so as to address the topic more effectively through an interdisciplinary approach.

Academic requirement: 2:1 degree or higher in Chemistry, Engineering or related subject.

English requirement: IELTS 6.5 (writing and speaking 6).

Basil Furneaux Memorial Fund
The award is open to undergraduates at Imperial College in their final year of study and former undergraduates of Imperial College who are applying to the following masters courses. Students must attain a minimum 2:1 degree to qualify for the scholarship.
The value of each award is up to £17,000 contribution towards tuition fees, tenable for the period of masters study.  This will be awarded as a reduction in the tuition fee billed to the student. 
Applicants should make an online application for the desired course of study, indicating within the application that they wish to be considered for the Furneaux Fund.  Applicants must include a paragraph in their personal statement outlining the reasons for their interest in agriculture-related applications, why the funding is needed to enable them to undertake the course and what is the source of additional funds that will support them during the year of study.

Departments will select students through their normal selection processes and provide nominations to the Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences.

The deadline for application by students to the Fund will be 30th April 2015.   

Students will be advised by their departments if their application has been successful in mid-May 2015.

Tuition fees (2015–2016):

  • Home/EU Full-time — £10,450
  • Overseas Full-time — £29,300
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