To: Ms. Biddinger, Mr. Castaldi, Mr. Denn, Mr. Morris and Mr. Tu.

From: Team Bronchitis (Lynden Pinnock, Humphrey Chukwuto, Michael Lugo and Robert Negron) Subject: Methane processing and value-added product status update. Date: March 20th, 2013

Economic Draft Methanol market consist of 90 methanol plants worldwide with total combine production capacity of 90 billion liters per year. If production were distributed equally, each plant would average 1 billion liters per year. Weve chosen to target 0.76% of the global market for a production of 685 million liters per year. At a methanol market price of $2.03/gallon out market yearly production will generate $366.68 million dollars in yearly revenue. Equipment Length and internal diameter [ft.] 27 ft. tall 4 ft. diam. 20 ft. tall 3 ft. diam. 25 ft. tall 4 ft. diam. 27 ft. tall 4 ft. diam. Number of stages (stage spacing ~ 2.2 ft.) 10 Base price (CE index 394) year 2000 [y2000 US$] $100,747 $52,456 8 10 $97, 996 $100,747 $351,946 Current price (CE index 663.7) May 2011 [y2011 US$] $169,710 $88,363 $165,076 $169,710 $592,859 Estimations by product equipment weight [lb.] 25,068 13,754 22,958 24,749

Amine contactor Flash drum Amine regenerator Dehydrator Total

Defined reaction units Amine contactor: o 10 stages radfrac column o No condenser, no reboiler o 1.5 lbmol/hr of 40% aqueous DEA at 2 atm pressure

Glycol dehydrator: o 10 stages radfrac column o No condenser, no reboiler o 7 STD gal/hr of 98% aqueous TEG at 1 atm pressure

Proposed process outline Cryogenic separator N2 membrane separator Autothermal reformer Preferential oxidizer

Outgoing ASPEN problems Working on the same thing on two different computers will get different answers, which causes a problem for parallel working. Moreover, the value of these faulty calculations are not constant, thus making it extremely difficult correcting for it. Also, this behavior itself isnt constant, sometimes simulations will run and the same values will be achieved while others this wont happen.