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Team 7: Engineering an Alternate Route to Styrene

Team 7: Engineering an Alternate Route to Styrene. Larae Baker. Jonathan Bush. Maxine Bent. Adam Jones. Michael Heslinga. Outline. Re-introduction Feasibility Struggles Design Norms Changes. Brief (re-)Introduction. Design a styrene plant on a computer simulator

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Team 7: Engineering an Alternate Route to Styrene

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  1. Team 7:Engineering an Alternate Route to Styrene

  2. Larae Baker Jonathan Bush Maxine Bent Adam Jones Michael Heslinga

  3. Outline • Re-introduction • Feasibility • Struggles • Design Norms • Changes

  4. Brief (re-)Introduction • Design a styrene plant on a computer simulator • Production capacity of 2 billion pounds of styrene per year; ~17% of current US market • Currently sold at $0.70/lb • New chemical process • Dow Chemical and Snamprogetti

  5. PFD

  6. Feasibility • Chemical • Patents • Separations • Current industry practices • Financial • Capital Investment and Operating Cost • Less costly raw materials • No Prototype

  7. Struggles Four to six weeks in the lab can save you an hour in the library • Proprietary Information • Literature • Contact at Dow Chemical • Reaction Kinetics • Catalyst Design • Design norms - G.C. Quarderer

  8. Design Norms • Justice and Caring • Where to build a plant • NIMBY • Environmental Stewardship • Possible recycling technology in progress • Use energy/raw material wisely • How to handle waste • Creating something people need (at a lower cost)

  9. Video found by Bob DeKrackerwww.americanchemistry.org

  10. Changes since Last Presentation • No lab work • Catalyst • Reagents • Equipment • Solution • Develop lab experiments • Using heuristics

  11. Where to go from here? • Further Research • Base Case Simulation • Equipment Design • Reactor - Alkylation • Reactor - Dehydrogenation • Separations Equipment • Economic Optimization

  12. THANKS FOR LISTENING!QUESTIONS?

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