Sample Chemical Engineering Student Team PowerPoint for Analysis

Your Role: You are a manager for Rice Utility Production, and you missed the meeting with the consultants design team. Youve been given their PowerPoint file. You have to let the other two managers on the committee know what you think of the proposed design.

Sample Chemical Engineering Student Team PowerPoint for Analysis

Note: Throughout, orange slides like this one will ask you questions to help you pick out things you want to remember about designing team PowerPoints.
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Acetone Production Plant Design

December 2, 20__
Student Team A From Ace Consultants

Project Motivation
Rice

UP - acetone requirement for increased Anphal production ROI at higher production rate

Maintain

Project Goals
Increase

Acetone Production by 30%

Minimize

Plant Costs

Operating

costs Additional capital purchasing costs

1. Reactor and Stripping Column

1. Reactor and Stripping Column 1. Reactor and Stripping Column

In regard to the previous slide:

What was the point of the process Sample Chemical Engineering flow diagram you just saw? Is this the teams recommended Student Team PowerPoint for design? Analysis What is the team trying to tell you about their work? Are you impressed by their design so far? Why is it good? Go back for a second look. What should the heading be?

2. Acetone Purification

3. Isopropyl Alcohol Recovery Column

Process Specifications
99.9% 90%

Pure Acetone

Pure Hydrogen ppm in Waste Water Stream

TOC<50

Cost Analysis
$243,000

/yr profit from given base case

~1

per pound of acetone product profit margin

In regard to the previous slide:

If these are the specifications, what criteria will you be looking for in the teams design? What does the team need to show you to convince you the design will do what is needed? Did the team meet these requirements in its design solution? How do you know?

Modeling Issue
UNIFAC

VLE Model does not accurately predict x-y diagram at high acetone concentrations is best property package for acetone/water binary system
Based

NRTL

on DeChema VLE data

Options
1) 2)

Use extractive distillation methods Purchase 39MM lb acetone (open market) Produce 97.6% acetone

3)

1) Extractive Distillation

3 Solvents

1,2 dimethoxyethane (Diglyme) Acetonitrile N-Methylpyrrolidone (NMP)

Case Study: Diglyme Prohibitive Cost

$6.765 MM /yr to purchase Diglyme Additional Column

In regard to the previous slide:

How do you know the cost of extractive distillation Is prohibitive? Why is the Diglyme case of interest?

Is an additional column a solution or part of the cost?

Is extractive distillation theh usual method of making acetone?

2) Purchase Acetone
Purchase

39 MM lb per year acetone for $10.92 MM

Shut

down acetone production

investment losses

Minimize

In regard to the previous slide:

How does the team know the cost will be this much? What has been the cost trend for acetone in the past? How much of a loss will be avoided? How do you know?

3) Produce 97.6% Acetone

Need

to add 3 heat exchangers

Renegotiate
Break-even

deal?

point

In regard to the previous slide:

What about the break-even point? What would it cost to produce acetone at this purity? Is that purity acceptable? What is this slide telling us about the option? What do these three bullet points have in common?

Recommendations
Buy

acetone off open market

Dissolve
Recover

acetone production facility

maximum amount of lost $$

Conclusions

Adjustment of property package identified separation difficulty Possible solutions

Extractive distillation Purchase acetone on the open market Renegotiate contract for lower acetone purity

Purchase acetone on open market is best

In regard to the previous slide:

Why put the conclusion after the recommendation?

TAKE AWAY POINTS

After

viewing this PowerPoint What are your take-away lessons that you will apply to your own PowerPoint next time?

Notes
This team puts its conclusions at the end and did not use informative headings on its process flow diagrams. The headings do not outline the argument. A pitch that presented the recommendation first and gave evidence of calculations to support claims would have been more persuasive. The PPT cant reinforce the oral message or persuade readers on its own.
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