Specialty: Chemical Engineering and Oil Pollution

Certificate : Bachelor’s degree in Science of Chemical Engineering and Oil Pollution

The chemical engineering and environment pollution branch is considered one of the rare scientific branches in the country's universities and provides the country with engineers specialized in designing equipment dealing with treating petroleum pollutants in addition to their general specialization in chemical engineering sciences. This branch was established in 2015 to meet the need of market to engineers specialized in the field of treatment of the oil and industrial pollution and protection of the environment. 

 The Chemical Engineering Department, since it’s established, has been providing the oil and industrial sectors with chemical engineers graduating from the oil Refining and chemical process branches. However, the great expansion in the oil and industrial sectors has led to necessity to establish a branch dealing with oil and industrial pollutants by preparing designs and integrated systems including plans, programs and research projects in addition to activation of cooperation with oil and industrial institutions.

The graduates of this branch will work to meet the needs of the various oil and industrial sectors, especially in oil refining units and industrial processes, and develop green technology field via solving various environmental problems and developing means of treatment for modern engineering techniques.

The branch emphasizes the practical side in addition to the theoretical side through the presence of specialized laboratories and curricula. Also, the branch's instructors from time to time do seminars for employees of the Ministry of Oil and graduates of chemical engineering departments to transfer the latest developments in this field.

Fields of work for graduates of Chemical Engineering and Oil Pollution:

The study in this branch aims to provide the graduates with broad knowledge and skills necessary to contribute to the suggestion of engineering projects to address the environmental problems dealing with oil refineries and industrial factories in addition to evaluating various environmental problems and developing methods of treatments. Therefore, the graduate student can work in different field such as the oil sector in oil and gas refining operations and industry in addition to industrial chemical processes.

Ministries and institutions that are interested in hiring Chemical Engineering and Oil Pollution graduates:

These ministries are: Ministry of Oil; Ministry of Industry and Minerals; Ministry of Environment; Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research; Ministry of Science and Technology; Research centers of green technology; and International oil companies.

Duration of study in the Chemical Engineering and Oil Pollution branch:

Four years

The scientific department that grants the degree:

Chemical engineering

Scientific backgrounds that can be submitted to obtain the specialization:

Graduates of the high school (scientific branch) in addition to graduates of technical institutes dealing with this area (chemical industries).

Degree: Masters

Specialist: Chemical engineering and oil refinery.

This specialist considered as one of the important scientific branches in industry, especially in the gas-oil refinery sector, as it has an important role in the energy production field required by the whole world recently. The international energy demands require more need for the crude oil and petrochemical products, besides the developments achieved by producing and using the eco-friendly materials and reduce the pollution generated from the waste accompanied with the refinery processes of the oil and gas.

The graduate students study in the first year many courses related to the chemical engineering specialist, like Heat Transfer, Mass Transfer, Fluid Flow, Thermodynamics, and modeling. There would be also a core courses related into the oil-gas refinery besides an elective course that would be chosen by the student. Also, English language course will be taught based on international curricula that would be helpful to improve the students’ language skills and help writing the thesis successfully.

In the second year of graduate studies, the student will select a research topic for graduation thesis. The research topic will be selected among several topics presented by the department faculty members. All topics are related to the chemical engineering and the department will provide all logistic support i.e. instruments, equipment, and scientific references.

Prospective workplaces for graduates in Oil and Gas refinery engineering fields:

The graduate who earned a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering/ Oil and Gas refinery engineering, will be able to work in all fields related like production units in oil refineries, gas processing companies, pipelines, and distribution companies.

Places hired graduates from the Chemical Engineering Department/ Oil and Gas Refinery Specialist:

• State and private universities, work as lecturers

• Ministry of Oil, Oil refinery company like Al-Dora, Al-Najaf, and Karbala refineries

• Oil fields in Iraq

• Northern refinery company

• Southern refinery company

• Gas company

Academic Program Duration

Two years after bachelor’s degree program

Department offering the degree

Chemical Engineering department

Prerequisite degrees needed for applying for the program

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and oil refinery

• Higher diploma in chemical engineering and oil refinery