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Drying Oil Production Process Design

This document outlines the requirements for a process design project involving the production of drying oil. It requires a 5-step process synthesis, process flow diagram (PFD), stream table, and evaluations of the rationale, optimization, feasibility, safety, and environmental impacts. The 5 steps of process synthesis that must be presented are: 1) eliminate differences in molecular types through chemical reactions, 2) distribute chemicals by matching sources and sinks through mixing and recycling, 3) eliminate differences in composition through separations, 4) eliminate differences in temperatures, pressures and phases through temperature, pressure and phase changes, and 5) integrate tasks through unit operations.

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Drying Oil Production Process Design

This document outlines the requirements for a process design project involving the production of drying oil. It requires a 5-step process synthesis, process flow diagram (PFD), stream table, and evaluations of the rationale, optimization, feasibility, safety, and environmental impacts. The 5 steps of process synthesis that must be presented are: 1) eliminate differences in molecular types through chemical reactions, 2) distribute chemicals by matching sources and sinks through mixing and recycling, 3) eliminate differences in composition through separations, 4) eliminate differences in temperatures, pressures and phases through temperature, pressure and phase changes, and 5) integrate tasks through unit operations.

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1

Process Summary (Page limit: 0.25 page)

This section must consist of a concise process summary as discussed in lectures.

Process Synthesis (Page Limit: 5 pages 1 page per step)

You are required to develop an initial plant design for the production of Drying Oil

using the 5 step systematic design process presented in lectures.


You must present 5 A4 pages, each one epresenting one step of the synthesis
process. The last step should be a semipictorial or schematic epresentation, as

presented in lectures.
At each step, you should explain the reasoning behind each of your process
design decisions, identifying any heuristic principles you have used, and any
literature references.

2.1

Eliminate differences in molecular types Chemical reactions

2.2

Distribute chemicals by matching sources and sinks Mixing and recycles

2.3

Eliminate differences in composition Separations

2.4

Eliminate differences in temperatures, pressures and phase Temperature,


pressure and phase change

2.5

Integrate tasks Unit operations

3. Process Flow Diagram (PFD)

3.1 Equipment list

must consist of a three-column-table which contains the description for each


piece of equipment.

The equipment name should comprise more than just single word names like
Pump 1, but be partially descriptive of the equipments role.

The description needs to consist of at least the material of construction, some


kind of rating/capacity and type description

4. Rationale (Page Limit: 1 page)

rationale behind your stream table i.e. your mass balances.


In this section, you need to list all the assumptions you have made, as well as
justify them.

5. Thinking about the process. (Page Limit: 0.5 page)

Does your proposed process configuration address the optimisation of sizing

of the separation units?


In your opinion, is this a feasible project?

6. Health, safety and environmental impact evaluation. (Page Limit: 1 page)

The safety evaluation should be an identification of the risks in the design of this
plant
considering the key issues for an inherently safe plant. Use a risk assessment tool
presented in your lectures to identify one particular hazard you have identified in
your
chosen process.
Ensure that the relevant data has been captured in the database creation step of
process
synthesis and present it in this section.

7. Other Information
Assume that a year equals 8160 hours which allows for periodic shut-down and
maintenance

3.2 Stream Table

should include kg/hr and kmol/h total flows for each stream,
should indicate wt% and mol% for each species in the streams.

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