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General Problem Terms &
Description Description Conditions

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Rules & Competition
Regulations Timeline Stages

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Abstract Assessment
Prize Criteria
Guidelines

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Contact
Penalty Person
General Description

The Problem Solving Competition is one of the competitions of

Indonesia Chemical Engineering Challenge 2021 that will
challenge its participants to identify, analyze, and propose the
best solutions to tackle the problem. The problem was thoroughly
picked from several plants that came from state-owned or
multinational companies based on the criterias such as the
solvability and relevance with the current issue and main theme.
This year, we collaborate with PT Badak Natural Gas Liquefaction.

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Problem Description
Company X is a company that produce Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) as
its main product and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) as its side product.
Company X has eight (8) LNG Train with 22.5 MTPA LNG capacity in total.
Company X process feed gas from various gas producers and process
the gas into LNG by compressed-type refrigeration. The incoming feed
of natural gas from gas field consist of a variety of different
hydrocarbons and other components, including impurities as well. One
LNG processing area consist of five (5) plants which are CO2 removal
plant, dehydration plant, fractionation plant, refrigeration plant, and
liquefaction plant.

CO2 removal plant

CO2 removal plant consist mainly of adsorber & stripping column which
remove CO2 from feed gas using amine solution.

Dehydration plant
Dehydration plant consist of drier for removing moisture content using
molecular sieve technology and mercury removal unit using sulfur
impregnated activated carbon.

Fractionation plant
Fractionation plant consist of scrub column, de-ethanizer, de-
propanizer, and de-butanizer column to separate most of methane and
ethane with other hydrocarbon compounds.

Refrigeration plant
Refrigeration technology is using C3-MR (Propane – Multicomponent
Refrigerant) for liquefying natural gas. Propane cycle cools down natural
gas to -37 oC while multicomponent refrigerant cools down natural gas
until it becomes liquid in main cryogenic heat exchanger.

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Problem Description
Liquefaction plant

Liquefaction plant main equipment is main cryogenic heat exchanger

which is a coil-wound heat exchanger. The area in heat exchanger is
differentiated into two which is warm bundle and cold bundle.

Utilities in terms of steam and power in Company X is using Rankine

Cycle with maximum power generation capacity of 143.5 MW. There are
10 steam turbine which are 5 condensing turbine power generator and
5 backpressure condensing power generators. There is also 1 gas
turbine power generator and 1 diesel turbine power generator. Each
power generator, except diesel turbine have the capacity of 12.5 MW.
Steam used by steam turbine power generator is generated by boiler
with fuel gas as its energy source. Fuel Gas flow for boiler are classified
as shown in Figure 1:

FigureFigure 1. Fuel
1 Fuel GasGas FlowClassification
Flow Classification in in
Company X
Company X

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Problem Description
As Company X has been operated for more than 20 years, Company X
are currently faced with efficiency problem indicated from excessive fuel
gas percentage use to run its LNG processing plant. Fuel gas mostly
comes from LNG Boil- off Gas and Off-Gas in LNG Processing. Fewer
percentage of fuel gas also comes from feed gas make-up and
Condensate Stabilizer Plant. Fuel Gas is used to run three (3) Trains with
specification of Fuel Gas usage are as follow:

Refrigerant Compressors in
Train
7.76%

Heat Loss in Boiers

1.79%

Amine Reboiler
0.89%

Fuel gas Power Generator

12% 0.78%

Other Driver & Heating Medium

0.68%

Gas Turbine
0.05%

Fuel Gas Compressor

0.05%

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Problem Description
Company X intended to optimize Fuel Gas usage in order to reduce Fuel
Gas Cost for more costefficient LNG process. There could be many
recommendations made based on the Fuel Gas usage diagram above.
However, there are several considerations in choosing the most
appropriate recommendations as follow:

1. Technical Feasibility
Technical Feasibility considers the possibility of implementing the
recommendation based on the condition of Company X. Technical
Feasibility include explanation of the technology used for
recommendation, requirement and potential hindrance in
implementation of technology.

2. Economic Feasibility
Economic Feasibility include standard economic evaluation parameters
such as PBP, IRR and NPV.

3. Operability & Continuity

Operability & Continuity include ease of operation to the
recommendation and amount of potential saving (continuous or
discrete)

4. GHG calculation analysis

The process proposed need to provide greenhouse gas emission
calculation for each unit and the recommendation to solve this
problem.

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Terms & Conditions
1. Participants must form a team consisting of 2 (two) students
from the same college / university. At least 1(one) of the
participants is majoring in Process Engineering.
2. Participants must be enrolled as undergraduate students in
the stated university by 4th April 2021.
3. Each participant can only participate in 1 (one) team
4. After being registered, the changes of participant of team is
strictly prohibited.
5. Each participant is not allowed to participate in other
competition held by IChEC 2021
6. Students under any academic sanctions are not allowed to
participate.
7. Each team must be accompanied by one or more faculty
advisors in the making of the work.
8. The methods proposed in title used for the Abstract and Full
Paper must be same.
9. Solutions proposed by the participants must be related to the
given problem, based on original creativity and various
knowledge of the team.
10. If any of the points stated above are not fulfilled, the team will
be disqualified

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Rules & Regulations
1. Each team must register according to the rules in the
Registration Process and submit all the required
documents.
2. Each team may only send one abstract.
3. Abstract and Full Paper must be written in accordance to
the formatting given by the committee.
4. All submissions and administration papers will become the
property of Indonesia Chemical Engineering Challenge
2021 Organizing Committee and will not be returned.
5. Plagiarism and any other inappropriate behavior will lead
to immediate disqualification.
6. All payments are not refundable
7. All decisions made by the judges and IChEC 2021
committees are absolute.
8. Any additional rules and regulations will be announced to
all participants.

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Timeline
Open Registration

30th of October 2020

Close Registration

02nd of January 2021

Abstract Submission

Deadline

02nd of January 2021

Selected Abstract

Announcement

16th of January 2021 Full Paper

Submission Deadline

13th of February 2021

Selected Full Paper

Announcement

27th of February 2021

IChEC 2021

2nd of April 2021

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 Competition Stages

The Problem Solving Competition IChEC 2021 consists of 3 stages:

1st Stage: Abstract Selection

Before submitting the abstract, each team must have been registered as the
participant by completing the payment and registration documents. Each
team must submit the documents on www.ichecitb.com/problemsolving.
The required documents for the submission are:

● Abstract
The abstract must describe a general solution to the problem
provided. Specification of the abstract is provided by the committee
in the guidebook that will be sent after completing the registration
process. The registration code will be sent after the registration
process.
Format file : pdf

● The latest photos of each team member

The photos must be formal, colored, size 4 cm x 6 cm.
Format name file: Team Registration Number_Photos_Name
Format file : jpg/jpeg

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Competition Stages

● Official letter from the major department or university

The letter must state that each team member is currently enrolled
as a student in the stated university and not under academic
sanction.
Format name file: Team Registration Number_Major Department
Letter
Format file : pdf

● Official letter from the faculty advisor

The letter must state that the advisor of faculty is supervising the
team.
Format name file: Team Registration Number_Faculty Advisor
Letter
Format file : pdf

The abstract must be submitted no later than 2nd January 2021, 11.59
p.m. (GMT+7). The selected abstracts will be announced on 16th January
2021 through IChEC 2021’s social media and email.

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Competition Stages

2nd Stage: Full Paper Selection

The teams who succeed to pass the first stage will get the Guidebook
Stage II through email. The selected teams must submit their full paper
no later than 13th February 2021 11.59 p.m. (GMT+7). The selected full
paper will be announced on 27th February 2021 through IChEC 2021’s
social media and email.

3rd Stage: Paper Presentation

Due to the current situation of the Covid-19 pandemic, there will be 2
schemes for this stage: online and offline. IChEC 2021 will send the
Guidebook Stage III to the finalists that gives more details information
regarding this final stage through email.

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Prize
Winner:

IDR 8.000.000 + Certificate

1st Runner Up:

IDR 6.000.000 + Certificate

2nd Runner Up:

IDR 4.000.000 + Certificate

Best Paper:

IDR 500.000
Printed certificate for finalists

E-certificate for semifinalists

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Abstract Guidelines
a. Technical Specifications
Paper orientation : portrait (for text), landscape (for block
flow or process flow diagram or
anything necessary)

Paper size : A4

Page margins : 1.2” (top and left), 1”

(bottom and right)

Page numbers location : bottom right corner

Font and text alignment :

● Font : Times New Roman

● Font style : bold uppercase for title
● Font color : black
● Font size : 12 pt (for content), 14 pt (for
chapter title)
● Text alignment : justify
● Line spacing : 1.5 with spacing 12 pt (on
before) and 6 pt (on after)
File format name : Team Registration Number_Abstract

The abstract must be done in English. Please do not forget to state

any references that are used in the report to avoid the plagiarism
issue

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Abstract Guidelines
b. Content Specifications
Abstract title is to be written in UPPERCASE, centered and bold style.
Five keywords are to be written in bold italic style at the end of the
abstract.

Minimum words count: 350 words (excluding title and keywords)

maximum words count: 500 words (excluding title and keywords)

Do not include the identities of team members as well as institution,

include only the team registration number.

The submitted abstract must contain the following points:

● Brief description of the problem itself*
*These must be made based on your own point of view
● General overview of your solution approach towards the
problem
● Suitable theories to support your solution
● Conclude the conclusion

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Assessment Criteria
Weight
Assessment Criteria
Factor

Technical

Layout, text order, and neatness 3

Adherence to content requirements 3

Language 4

Technical Total Score 10

Content

Brief review of the problem 5

Summary of the solution proposed 30

Description of the techno-economic

30
feasibility of the technology

Supporting data and logical arguments

20
provided for the solution

Coherency of the abstract 5

Content Total Score 90

Total Score 100

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Penalty
Penalty Incurrences Consequences

5 pts deduction each hour

Failed to submit before the
1.
official deadline Disqualification for two hours
and above of late submission

Inclusion of team members

2. 5 pts deduction
and institution identities*

4 pts deduction per

3. Incomplete requirements
requirement

4. Plagiarism Disqualification

Submitted work has been

5. commercialized or won any Disqualification
other competitions

Number of abstract words

6. 5 pts deduction
exceed the maximum limit

7. Invalid abstract name format 3 pts deduction

Wrong format name of

8. 2 pts deduction per document
registration documents
* This rule is to ensure fair judgments for all participants

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Contact Person
Rionardi Pranata

Phone Number/WA : +62 811 7178 128

Line ID : rionardipranata

Email Address : rionardipranata@gmail.com

Hans Vito Xavier Khosasih

Phone Number/WA : +62 851 5537 2297

Line ID : vito.kho

Email Address : vitoxavierkhosasih@gmail.com

Jeanny Wijaya

Phone Number/WA : +62 856 9252 5878

Line ID : jeannywijaya

Email Address : jeanny.wijayaxx@gmail.com

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