Plant Operations Workshop
Intensive four-day workshop on shift handover, sampling discipline, and responding to common process upsets on a teaching pilot plant.
Cedarfield
Chemical Engineering School · London
Learn process engineering where balances meet the bench
Studio programmes, pilot-plant workshops, and laboratory intensives for people who need chemical engineering practice they can carry onto a plant floor or into a design office.
Flagship studio: Process Design Certificate
Twelve weeks of flowsheet development, equipment sizing, and laboratory checks for continuous plant design, capped at sixteen places so every learner presents work to faculty.
- Material and energy balances grounded in a live design brief
- P&ID literacy and operability discussion with visiting plant engineers
- Teaching-lab corroboration of heat transfer and fluid flow assumptions
- Written design critique you can keep as portfolio evidence
Related courses on campus
Shorter formats for operators, safety writers, and students building laboratory confidence before term.
Process Safety Short Course
Five evening sessions on hazard identification, layer-of-protection thinking, and writing clear permit-to-work narratives for chemical plant settings.
Laboratory Skills Intensive
A weekend programme on glassware handling, titration technique, distillation setup, and recording laboratory observations for chemical engineering coursework.
Teaching spaces built for unit operations
Distillation, heat exchange, and fluid-flow bays sit beside seminar rooms so theory and measurement stay in the same building. Walk the laboratories before you enrol.
What recent learners say
Specific notes from certificate, workshop, and laboratory participants—not generic praise.
“The flowsheet critique was blunt about my pump sizing, which stung for a day, then saved me from repeating the same mistake on my first plant modification. Studio nights ran late when we chased recycle loops, but the written feedback was specific enough to reuse at work.”
“I came wanting checklists and left with a clearer handover habit. Sampling around the pilot column forced me to slow down and say what I had actually seen, not what I assumed from the previous shift.”
“Glassware still makes me careful rather than confident, and that is fine. The weekend gave me a distillation setup I could assemble without hovering for every clamp position.”
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