Question: As a process engineer you are hire to design a chemical plant to produce 8 0 , 0 0 metric tons per annum of ethylbenzene

As a process engineer you are hire to design a
chemical plant to produce 80,00 metric tons per annum of ethylbenzene from
benzene and ethylene. Benzene (assumed pure) and Ethylene (containing mole
fraction of 0.93 ethylene, 0.07 ethane) feed are available at 20bar and 298K.
Ethane is inert.
It may be assumed that the only reactions occurring are:
)+)+
The molar ratio of benzene to ethylene are approximated at 8:1, in order to minimize
yielding tri- and higher ethyl benzene.
The plant should operate for 330 days in a year, to allow for shutdown and
maintenance. Executive summary
Table of Contents
Design Basis
Literature review
Process Simulation
Include process flow diagram from COCO (in GREEN colour to show
you have run it)
Process Description
Process Flow Diagram
Include process flow diagram with all equipment (labelled, tag
name/number) and stream names/numbers and table of mass and
energy balance. Please use Microschs Visio or other software to draw
the process flow diagram. Not COCO process flow diagram.
Equipment list
Conclusions
References
Appendices (if any) The economics information:
Useful information:
ChemicalcostUSDollarsethylene$0.77kgbenzene$1.22kgEthylenebenzene$1.54kgDiethylebenzene$0.76kgFuelgasvalue$0.54kg
\table[[Utility costs.,US Dollars],[Low Pressure Steam (618kPa saturated),$7.78/GJ],[Medium Pressure Steam (1135kPa saturated),$8.22/GJ],[High Pressure Steam (4237kPa saturated),$9.83/G],[Natural Gas (446kPa,25\deg C),$6.00/GJ],[Electricity,$0.06/kWh],[Boiler Feed Water (at {:549kPa,90\deg C),$2.45/1000kg],[Cooling Water (516kPa:} and {:30\deg C),],[Return pressure >=308kPa,],[Return temperature is no more than 15\deg C above the inlet,],[temperature,$0.354/GJ],[Refrigerated Water (available at 516kPa and {:5\deg C),],[Return pressure >=308kPa,],[Return temperature in no higher than 15\deg C,$4.43/GJ],[Low-temperature Refrigerant, available at -20\deg C,$7.89/GJ],[Very-low-temperature Refrigerant, available at -50\deg C,$13.11/GJ]]1.1.Design basis.
1.2.Literature Survey.
Please remember to properly use referencing in your report. Use Harvard
referencing.
1.3.Process Simulation (COCO). Include the green PFD from COCO.
Remember, the purpose of the simulator is to assist you in doing your work, not
to do the work for you. Remember to include a discussion of the manual
calculations you performed in addition to a description of your simulation and
thermodynamic property method and models used. The simulation report
generated by the simulation package can be included in the appendix.
1.4.Process Description.
1.5.Process Flow diagram with a table containing mass and energy balances: the
flowrates, compositions, temperature, and pressures of all the process streams
(not needed for the utilities like steam and cooling water). All the process
equipment should be indicated on this flow diagram.
1.6.Equipment list please DONT USE GPTCHAT , ND PLEASE IT IN WORD FORM SHOW ALL THE CALCULATIONS AND GRAPHS . I ALSO INCLUDE THE PICTURE WHERE YOU GET ALL THE INFORMATIONS THANKS As a process engineer you are hired to design a
chemical plant to produce 80,00 metric tons per annum of ethylbenzene from
benzene and ethylene. Benzene (assumed pure) and Ethylene (containing mole
fraction of 0.93 ethylene, 0.07 ethane) feed are available at 20bar and 298K.
Ethane is inert.
It may be assumed that the only reactions occurring are:
)+)+
The molar ratio of benzene to ethylene are approximated at 8:1, in order to minimize
yielding tri- and higher ethyl benzene.
The plant should operate for 330 days in a year, to allow for shutdown and
maintenance.
 As a process engineer you are hire to design a chemical

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