WEEKLY MEETING 9

Participants
1) Natpaphanon Jirayuthanyawat (61011292)
2) On-napak Lokitsangtong (61011302)
3) Ruangladda Limpongsawat (61011327)
4) Sirada Ampornsittikul (61011332)
5) Thanyaporn Sae-tong (61011347)

Meeting Agenda
Topic 1: Re-design some equipment

• Re-route recycle stream of methanol from the first column into a reactor 2 (R2)
• Change conversion of methanol dehydration in reactor 2 (R2)
• Reduce separation units from 3 distillation columns into 2 distillation columns
• Optimize new product stream to 10,800 US tons/year
• Change raw material and product storage tanks specifications
Topic 2: Costing calculations

• Complete bare module costing calculation

• Complete utility costing calculation

Progress
• Re-routed recycle methanol stream after multi-compressor before mixing and feed
into reactor 2 (R2). And added another heat exchanger to increase the mixing stream
to 250◌C using high pressure stream in accordance with the reactor 2 (R2) specification.
• Changed fraction conversion of methanol dehydration in reactor 2 (R2) from 100% to
99%.
• Reduced to only 2 distillation columns as:
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 o 1st distillation column operated at the similar conditions but only change the
feed temperature stream from 180◌C to 176◌C.
o 2nd distillation column acted as separation and purification of DME from CO2 by
adjusting the new feed temperature stream from 80◌C to 60◌C and other
specifications.
• Adjusted new total mass flow rate of DME to 10800 US tons/year using Design-Spec.
• Re-designed new storage tanks for all raw materials and product using new
specifications and conditions.
• Calculated bare module costing and utility costing by obtain factors from reference
textbooks.

Conclusion
After that, we obtain new final design flowsheet of our plant and plan to perform
economical evaluation in the next week.

Responsibilities
Members Responsibilities
Natpaphanon • Calculate bare module costing
On-napak • Calculate utility costing
Re-design new final flowsheet
Ruangladda • Calculate bare module costing
design
Sirada • Calculate utility costing
Thanyaporn • Calculate bare module costing