Guidelines for engineering project

Project must describe with details how decisions on process synthesis were made. There
must be documentation of every single analysis that was performed in order to define
process conditions (T, P, Molar ratio, Catalyst, Recycling fraction, etc.).

What does the document must include?:

First Report

1. Brief introduction about the product

2. Determination of production rate and location of plant (very brief – one paragraph).
Support in Annex.
3. Selection of chemical route (Very brief – one paragraph). Support in Annex.
4. Important technical data such as composition, water content, metals contents, or
any other impurity that is required to be considered during process modeling
5. Prices for raw materials, products and catalysts.
6. Validation of thermodynamic properties and models for all phases – comparison of
simulation results against experimental data for density, heat capacity, conductivity,
viscosity, vapor pressure, heat of reaction, heat of vaporization, VLE, LLE, SLE or
any other phase equilibrium required during simulation. Support in Annex.
7. Validation of kinetic models – comparison of simulation results against
experimental data for every kinetics included in the process simulation. Support in
Annex.
8. Input-output structure including design variables determination and economic
potential
9. Reactor design – adiabatic temperature analysis. Cost of reactor
10. Recycle structure including compressors costs. Economic potential update
11. Design of heterogeneous separations if required
12. Design of homogeneous separations. Vapor streams separations design. Liquid
phase separations including (if required) conceptual design of distillation
sequences.
13. Economic potential including separations
14. Process flow diagram using standard formats
15. Heat integration using pinch analysis
16. Process flow diagram after heat integration using standard formats
17. Economic potential including heat integration
18. Environmental and social indicators of the process

Second Report

19. Corrections of first report

20. Definition of design variables for the process
21. Sensitivity analysis: Total costs with respect to change in design variables
22. Identification of optimization variables
23. Formulation of the optimization problem and description of solution method
24. Economic optimization resolution
25. Heat integration of optimized process
26. Conclusions and remarks
27. Recommendations

Main body of document must be no longer that 20 pages, 2.5 cm surrounding margins,
font size 11, 1.2 space width.
Figures and plot must be clear, in the same language of the report, must contain units in
the axes and be readable.
Equations have to be clear and every symbol defined within text
If required, additional information can be included as annexes.

Reports must be printed out on double page, and handed out on time.