{"id":10666,"date":"2025-06-11T16:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T16:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chem.orizel.com\/?page_id=10666"},"modified":"2026-05-04T18:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:10:16","slug":"postgraduate-programmes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/chemical\/postgraduate-programmes\/","title":{"rendered":"Postgraduate Programmes"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"10666\" class=\"elementor elementor-10666\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2b5f202 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2b5f202\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-88c808d elementor-widget-tablet_extra__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"88c808d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The department has been providing research supervision for higher degrees such as PGDip, MSc, MScEng, MPhil and PhD in chemical engineering and related fields. One of the major research areas of the Department is energy studies related to chemical and process industries that include combustion, gasification, fluidisation, fluidised bed drying, drying of solids and solutions and renewable energy technologies. Environmental pollution control engineering related to process industries, the energy sector, and the transport sector is the other major research area of the department. In addition, the department conducts research in computer\u00ad aided design, food engineering and control in chemical engineering and biochemical engineering, in collaboration with the Faculty of Science, UOP.<\/p><p>The department offers a postgraduate programme in Environmental Pollution Control Engineering (EPCEng) leading to Postgraduate Diploma, MSc and MScEng in EPCEng and offering MPhils and PhDs in diverse chemical engineering branches.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-244b749 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"244b749\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7fc99a9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7fc99a9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/chemical\/postgraduate-diploma-pg-dip-in-epc-eng\/\">Postgraduate Diploma (PG. Dip.) in EPC Eng.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/chemical\/degree-of-master-of-the-science-of-engineering-m-sc-or-m-sc-eng-in-epc-eng\/\">Degree of Master of the Science of Engineering (M.Sc. or M.Sc. Eng.) in EPC Eng.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/chemical\/degree-of-master-of-philosophy-m-phil\/\">Degree of Master of Philosophy (M. Phil.)<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-17de28c elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"17de28c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fe762f8 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"fe762f8\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2c50389 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"2c50389\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/chemical\/dr_niranjan_fernando\/\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/chemical\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-10-at-13.12.53_285f7b1e-228x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-10995\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/chemical\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-10-at-13.12.53_285f7b1e-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/chemical\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-10-at-13.12.53_285f7b1e-777x1024.jpg 777w, https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/chemical\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-10-at-13.12.53_285f7b1e-768x1013.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/chemical\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-10-at-13.12.53_285f7b1e.jpg 1071w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/chemical\/dr_niranjan_fernando\/\"><B>Postgraduate Coordinator<\/B><\/a><\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\"><B><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Dr. Niranjan Fernando<\/span><\/B><br>\nPostgraduate Coordinator\nDepartment of Chemical and Process Engineering<br>\n\n\ud83d\udcde Phone: +94 71 938 2823<br>\n\ud83d\udce7 Email: niranjanf@eng.pdn.ac.lk<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-88a6be4 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"88a6be4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The department has been providing research supervision for higher degrees such as PGDip, MSc, MScEng, MPhil and PhD in chemical engineering and related fields. 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