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).

What does the document must include?:

1. Brief introduction about the product

2. Determination of production rate and location of plant
3. Selection of chemical route
4. Important technical data such as composition, water content, metals content that is
required during process modeling
5. Prices for raw materials, products and catalysts.
6. Validation of thermodynamic properties and models – comparison of simulation
results against experimental data for vapor pressure, VLE, LLE, SLE or any other
phase equilibrium required during simulation.
7. Validation of kinetic models – comparison of simulation results against
experimental data for every kinetics included in the process simulation.
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 cost
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

Main body of document must be no longer that 20 pages, 2.5 cm surrounding

margins, font size 11, 1.5 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.