Team 7: Engineering an Alternate Route to Styrene

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Team 7Engineering an Alternate Route to Styrene
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Larae Baker
Jonathan Bush
Maxine Bent
Adam Jones
Michael Heslinga
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Outline

• Re-introduction
• Design Process
• Struggles
• Changes

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Re-Introduction

• Design a styrene plant on HYSYS, a computer
  simulator
• Capacity 2 billion lbs/year
• 0.70/lb
• 14 of US production
• New chemical process
• Ethane instead of Ethylene

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Design Process

• Research
• Base Case
• Detailed Equipment Design
• Reactors
• Separations
• Other equipment
• Economic Optimization
• Finalized Design

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Process Design
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Struggle

• Separations
• Not in patents
• Heuristics
• No kinetic data
• Cannot determine a rate law
• Assumed conversion and selectivity

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Changes since December

• Kinetics
• Working base case
• Optimization beginning
• Catalyst regeneration plan
• More detailed schedule
• Plant Details
• 50-60 acres
• Texas/Louisiana

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