Aceton Plant
Aceton Plant
Aceton Plant
Your Role: You are a manager for Rice Utility Production, and you missed the meeting with the consultants design team. Youve been given their PowerPoint file. You have to let the other two managers on the committee know what you think of the proposed design.
Project Motivation
Rice
UP - acetone requirement for increased Anphal production ROI at higher production rate
Maintain
Project Goals
Increase
Minimize
Plant Costs
Operating
2. Acetone Purification
Process Specifications
99.9% 90%
Pure Acetone
TOC<50
Cost Analysis
$243,000
~1
Modeling Issue
UNIFAC
VLE Model does not accurately predict x-y diagram at high acetone concentrations is best property package for acetone/water binary system
Based
NRTL
Options
1) 2)
Use extractive distillation methods Purchase 39MM lb acetone (open market) Produce 97.6% acetone
3)
1) Extractive Distillation
3 Solvents
2) Purchase Acetone
Purchase
Shut
Minimize
Renegotiate
Break-even
deal?
point
Recommendations
Buy
Dissolve
Recover
Conclusions
Extractive distillation Purchase acetone on the open market Renegotiate contract for lower acetone purity
viewing this PowerPoint What are your take-away lessons that you will apply to your own PowerPoint next time?
Notes
This team puts its conclusions at the end and did not use informative headings on its process flow diagrams. The headings do not outline the argument. A pitch that presented the recommendation first and gave evidence of calculations to support claims would have been more persuasive. The PPT cant reinforce the oral message or persuade readers on its own.
For more help: Making Logical Technical Arguments PPT; Team Presentations in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering PPT