Nearing the End

The project is almost done. Two more days to go. We are now doing the final optimization of the process and doing the final economic analysis of the process.

Over the weekend we had a minor setback. A team member received news that her grandmother passed and was understandably unable to work for two days, but the show must go on. The other two team members pressed forward with finalizing the final process. The final process was determined to feeding the pure benzene and propylene, mixed at a point in the stream (inter-stream mixing), to a heat exchanger. The mixture would then be fed to the reactor. The reactor effluent would be sent to a distillation column that would separate benzene to be recycled to the feed. The bottoms from that column would be fed to a second column where cumene would be separate for selling.

We are currently working on the economic cost evaluation and the environmental analysis of our process. Stay tuned for more updates for our senior design project

 

~JDB