Initial Situation
Following laboratory and pilot plant analyses of an oil refinery, the reactive conversion of process streams to diesel shall be tested on industrial scale.
The task
- Implement the insights of the laboratory and pilot plant tests into an explicit simulation model.
- Optimise the product treatment and refeed of recycling streams.
- Provide a mass and energy balance for an industrial plant.
- Design the main equipment for an estimation of costs.
- Create a control concept for the plant.
Project Management
Modelling
Design a simulation model based on the insights of the laboratory tests. Adapt the data of the chemical and physical properties of substances to the test results. Conduct sensitivity analyses to optimise the product treatment and refeed of recycling streams. Create an adjusted simulation model based on the results of the sensitivity analyses.
Process Engineering Design
Columns
- Calculate the required separating stages for the distilling columns.
- Choose the column components.
- Determine the column dimensions considering the hydraulic pressure.
Heat Exchanger
- Selection of evaporator, condensers, heater and cooler.
- Calculation of the required exchange area and the main dimensions.
Container
- Determine the vessel design taking into account the necessary retention time.
Pumps
- Set up the data sheets for all pumps necessary in the engineering process.
Control Concept – EI&C
- Design the concept to control the process including all control loops and EI&.