PROCESSES AND POLYMERS

APPLIED GRADUATE STUDIES

Language: English Duration: 16 months IFP School’s Master’s degree/Specialized engineering degree
(Diplôme d’ingénieur spécialisé)

The fast-moving industry of polymers is based on innovation and new markets. Always facing new challenges, talents
are searched to develop new trends such as energy efficient processes, bioplastics manufacturing and plastics recycling.
Our Processes and Polymers program offers skills for the petrochemical and polymer companies, in a multicultural
environment: a recognized Master program where you will embrace a sector where innovation knows no bounds!

We cannot imagine our daily life without the help the price you can expect for your product,
of polymers all around us, in our car, our clothes, how to choose the right technology.
HIGHLIGHTS or our house. This industry keeps on growing Our program adapts to the main industry
thanks to new applications in fields such as trends. Environmental care requires the
• Continuous or alternating
medicine, construction, energy, electronics, and development of processes that rely on energy
school/company program
consumer goods. Innovation to develop lightweight efficiency, plastics recycling, lifecycle assessment
• Complete value chain materials, with required properties to meet and management. We also explore the
from feedstock processing customer demand is a permanent challenge. development of bio-sourced polymers.
to petrochemicals and
polymer manufacturing The Processes and Polymers Master program The program includes multiple field trips to plants
offers you overall knowledge and know-how of in Europe and several team projects based on
• Classmates from more the petrochemical chain from resources to real cases. Up to date pedagogical methods
than 10 countries plastics. Throughout this chain, you are trained in like e-learning, micro-learning and serious
• More than 20 days each value-adding manufacturing step: refining games, have been introduced to ensure that all
of field trips in refining processes, base chemical production, industrial students have the same background knowledge
and petrochemical plants, polymerization and plastic processing. before the course, while real-time quiz stimulate
in Europe interaction between you and the lecturers.
We place a strong focus on technical skills
in chemical engineering and in project We give you solid technical and interpersonal
management for the development, design skills. You will quickly be operational and adapt
and operation of safe and clean processes. easily to a multicultural professional
But the Master program is more than that; environment. We are proud of the cosmopolitan
you will also gain insight into petrochemical atmosphere you will find in this program.
economics: how to define where the market is, Sharing your experience and culture with
students from many different countries will
help you become an open-minded and
CAREER responsible professional.
OPPORTUNITIES
After the Processes and Polymers program,
• Process development in a sector stimulated by the development of new
and optimization applications, you will be offered career opportunities
• Product development in process development and optimization,
• Engineering product development, project engineering,
• Energy optimization operations and sales.
• Operations and HSE
management
• Logistics and sales

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 PROCESSES
AND POLYMERS
APPLIED GRADUATE STUDIES

TYPICAL CLASS PROFILE/ Apprentices

Apprentices
Scholarship
Scholarship
MAIN SPONSORS recipients
recipients

Students in this program are almost all

sponsored by companies (through
Profes-
sponsorships or apprenticeships) that
sionnals
finance their living expenses during the
academic period and contribute towards Professionnals
their tuition.
Sponsored
Sponsored
Among these companies, the following have
been IFP School partners in recent years
(non-exhaustive list):
Arkema, Axens, ExxonMobil, IFPEN,
Michelin, Siam Cement Group, S-Oil,
TechnipFMC, Total.

PROGRAM CONTENT PROGRAM SCHEDULE

The two examples of schedules shown
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 he program is divided into 4 major themes below correspond to the most frequently
encountered cases for students in this
program: 16-month continuous program
Chemical engineering fundamentals
for students with a 4- or 5-year
• Separation processes engineering degree; alternating school/
• Design and operational issues of main equipment: heat exchangers company 16-month program for students
and rotating machinery with a 5-year engineering degree.
• Chemical reactor technologies design and operation
• Polymer science and polymer reaction engineering
• Engineering projects: PFD, PID, project cost estimation and management 16 months

Continuous program
From refining processes to petrochemicals
• Hydrocarbons physico-chemistry
• Crude oil fractionation units, refining processes and conversion processes
for heavy ends
• Base chemicals and petrochemical intermediates 16 months
• Petrochemical economics Alternating school/company program

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From petrochemicals to plastic manufacturing
• Commodity plastics value chain
• Main engineering and high performance plastics
IFP School Company
• Overview of plastic processing
• Production planning and supply chain
• Polymer market outlook There are other possible cases, such as:
a 22-month alternating school/company
Safety management and sustainable development program for students in their penultimate
• Risk management year of a major European school or
university having signed a double-degree
• Process operation safety
agreement with IFP School.
• Energy efficiency
• Bio-polymers
• Environmental impact of polymers through Life Cycle Analysis,
and recycling technologies

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