Self-directed learning project - 2014/Memo 1
| Class date(s): | 09 October 2014 |
Memo
McMaster Chemical Engineering (McChem Inc.)
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L7
Canada
| To | Colleagues in Chemical Engineering 4N04 |
| cc: | Myrto Korogiannaki, Meera Marway, and Tyler Homer |
| Date: | 09 October 2014 |
| From: | Kevin Dunn |
| Subject: | Project flowsheet |
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One of McChem Inc’s major businesses has always been production of phthalic anhydride from naphthalene. Phthalic anhydride production is integrated as part of a large chemical plant, in which naphthalene is produced and in which phthalic anhydride is immediately used downstream.
The plant is designed to produce 100,000 metric tons/year of phthalic anhydride from naphthalene, but operates at 80,000 metric tons/year [8000 hour per year operation].
This tutorial/assignment will help get you acquainted with the flowsheet, which we will use for the rest of the course. Please note, this flowsheet and all the data we will use are from a textbook by Turton *et al.* (Analysis, Synthesis, and Design of Chemical Processes).
Please `download the document <http://learnche.mcmaster.ca/media/mcmaster/4N4-2014-Project-Description.pdf>`_ (use the MacSecure wireless network on campus to access the document).
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