Product and Process Design II

Modeling and Simulation in Chemical Engineering

Process dynamic and control

CAPSTONE PROJECT
INITIAL WORKSHOP
Competences:
- An ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with
consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social,
environmental, and economic factors
- An ability to include planning concepts in the project management
- An ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership,
create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet
objectives
- An ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences
RPA:
- To optimize the operational conditions setting the equipment and plant design parameters
- To evaluate between several options the process specifications, and to choose the most
appropriate chemical process condition to reach the restrictions.
- To argue coherently and referenced each design activity during the project in oral and writing
presentations
- To manage resources and time coherently, assuming each team member role to fulfill the
project objectives.
- To project the activities and the resources to develop the process and plant design
Instructions:
Six months ago, your team has started the design of a novel product. As a good beginning, it is
important to remember some important definitions of what engineering design is:
“Engineering design is the process of devising a system, component, or process to meet desired
needs. It is a decision-making process (often iterative), in which the basic science and mathematics
and engineering sciences are applied to convert resources optimally to meet a stated objective.
Among the fundamental elements of the design process are the establishment of objectives and
criteria, synthesis, analysis, construction, testing and evaluation” [1]
“an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic
constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety,
manufacturability, and sustainability” [1]
“Engineering design is a systematic, intelligent process in which designers generate, evaluate, and
specify concepts for devices, systems, or processes whose form and function achieve clients’
objectives or users’ needs while satisfying a specified set of constraints.”[2]

Thus, the design process has the following characteristics:

• It is iterative.
• It is a decision-making process
• Applies scientific knowledge
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• Meet a stated objective or desired needs

• It occurs within realistic and specified set of constraints
You have designed a product (that is, you have proposed a set of solutions to a particular need
satisfying certain requirements and/or constraints) and it is time to propose an engineering design for
the main component of your formulation AND the formulation itself. In this semester, your problem
design will be:
Create an engineering design to produce the main component of its formulations and the final
formulated product, in order to produce them at an industrial scale.
The proposal must be as realistic as possible. That is, you will have meet certain requirements (given
by your product) and you will have to face certain constraints (legal, socioeconomical, technical,
among others). You will also have to select the best option among a huge set of alternatives. You
must have to support each design decision you are taking.
For that reason, it is important that your design would be leveraged by the courses you are taking this
semester (product and process design 2, modeling and simulation in chemical engineering and process
dynamics and control). For that reason, all your work in these courses will be focused on this project.
The main deliverables you will have to provide are the following:
Description Dynamic Modeling
Process
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Owner requirements Product description, main X
component, feedstokes, plant
capacity, operation mode.
Market analysis Customers, suppliers, X
Profit margin.
Mathematical model Show which models are used X
for product to model the product
properties properties. You must also list
the SUPOSITIONS you made
when developing the model.
Running Show how your team uses X
Simulations for simulation to predict 3
product properties, important properties (pure or
Feasibility analysis implementing the mixed). You must support
(Product and mathematical your simulations with a
process design II) models. Matlab file and an ASPEN
--or--- simulation. It will be used in
Basis of Design the MSDS
(max 30 pag)
MSDS of product X
MSDS of feedstock X
Process synthesis Synthesis route X
(verified and BFD. Justify the route with an
corrected) objective decision tool.

Kinetics constants Present the constant of the X

of the Reaction selected reaction kinetics
Standards and Define all the normative X
regulations framework of products and
feedstock
Environmental Identify the environmental X
analysis risk of the process
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Thermodynamic You must propose a X

analysis of you thermodynamic analysis
process USEFUL for your process. If
you consider making a VL
separation, you must analyze
the VLE. You are free to
choose the modeling tool.
The mathematical Create the mathematical X
model for the mass model for your overall mass
balance of your balance.
preliminary PFD
The simulation of Implement the mathematical X
your preliminary model in a numerical tool.
PFD
Steady-state mass Present the streams conditions X
and energy balance of the process in a table
Requirement Explain how you fulfilled the X
traceability matrix requirements in the process.
Constraints List all the constraints your X
team have found.
Minutes of the All meeting minutes showing X
meeting (signed by how you track your project
members)
Complete WBS A detailed WBS X
(Scope, Time and
cost)
Simulation of PFD A preliminary flowsheet X
made in a commercial
simulator.
Preliminary PFD It must be consistent with the X
one you simulated.
Control objectives State the control objectives X
for the 3 equipment your team
chose.
Preliminary control For each equipment, you must X
structure identify
feedback/feedforward/cascade
loops
Identification of For each equipment, you must X
control variables identify
input and output
variables
Dynamic Each member must provide X
mathematical the mathematical modeling of
modeling of the the chosen unit.
unit.
Solving the dynamic Provide the numerical X
model solution to the dynamic
model.
Preliminary Provide the preliminary X
instrumentation instrumentation to implement
the control loop
Preliminary P&ID Draw your preliminary X
based on the control strategy using ISA 5.1
preliminary work.
A single document will be delivered with the information showed in the previous table. This
document should be attached with the files that support the design process (Excel, simulations,
Matlab, heuristics) and sent to your respective design and simulation teachers.
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All decisions taken should be supported by logical engineering arguments and the equipment
selection, sizing, optimization and economic estimation must be detailed in the proposal, showing in
this way the analysis worked in class. We remind you that the process simulations are supporting
material for the calculations presented in your designs.
The proposal must be clear, concise and presented in pdf format. The delivery deadline is presented
in the virtualsabana link.
References:
[1] Abet.org. (2017). Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, 2016 – 2017 | ABET. [online]
Available at: https://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/criteria-for-accrediting-
engineering-programs-2016-2017/ [Accessed 1 Aug. 2019].
[2] Clive L. Dym, Alice M. Agogino, Ozgur Eris, Daniel Fry, and Larry J. Leifer, Engineering Design
Thinking, Teaching, and Learning, Journal of Engineering Education, 2005, vo1. 94, issue 1, pp. 103–
120, DOI: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2005.tb00832.
Prausnitz J. 5th edition Properties of gases and liquids. Poling B.