Design Projects

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Three types of design projects are available here:

1. Companion projects for vertical integration of design experiences through the curriculum. See Bailie, R. C., J. A. Shaeiwitz, and W. B. Whiting, "An Integrated Design Sequence. Sophomore and Junior Years," Chemical Engineering Education, 28 (1), 52-57 (1994).
   
   
2. Design, debottlenecking, troubleshooting, and retrofitting problems, suitable for the capstone course. See Turton, R. and R. C. Bailie, "Chemical Engineering Design. Problem-Solving Strategy," Chemical Engineering Education, 26 (1), 44-49 (1992); Shaeiwitz, J. A. and R. Turton, "Acetone Production from Isopropyl Alcohol: An Example Debottlenecking Problem and Outcomes Assessment Tool," Chemical Engineering Education, 33 (3), 210-215, (1999).
   
   
3. Large-scale design projects produced in our unique, student-led, senior design class. These are suitable for large, capstone projects. See Shaeiwitz, J. A., W. B. Whiting, and D. Velegol, "A Large-Group Senior Design Experience. Teaching Responsibility and Life-Long Learning," Chemical Engineering Education, 30 (1), 70-75 (1996).
   
   
4. Optimization Problems See Anderson, B. J., R. S. Hissam, J. A. Shaeiwitz, and R. Turton, "Optimization Problems," Chemical Engineering Education, 45 (2), 144-149 (2011).

All design project descriptions are available in either Word (zipped) for Windows or Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format. Optimization problems are only available in Word (zipped) for Windows format.

1. Companion Projects for Curriculum

A.	Material Balances
B.	Material Balances, Energy Balances, Numerical Methods, and Optimization
C.	Fluids, Heat, Thermodynamics plus topics in A and B
D.	Separations and Reactors plus topics in C -- these may also be suitable for capstone design

Background for many of these projects can be found in our design textbook.

	A	B	C	D
acetone	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf
acrylic acid	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf
allyl chloride	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf
cumene	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf
phthalic anhydride	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf
dimethyl ether	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf
ethylene oxide	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf
drying oil	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf
maleic anhydride	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf
MTBE	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf
ethylbenzene	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf
formalin	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf
ethanol	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf
ammonia	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf
phthalic anhydride (new version)	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf
styrene	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf
diethyl ether	word pdf	word pdf	coming fall 2012	coming spring 2013

The following faculty members have participated in these integrated projects:

Brian J. Anderson Eung H. Cho Eugene V. Cilento Dady Dadyburjor Rakesh K. Gupta David J. Klinke Hisashi O. Kono

Edwin L. Kugler Aubrey L. Miller Joseph A. Shaeiwitz Charter D. Stinespring Richard Turton John W. Zondlo

2. Design, debottlenecking, troubleshooting, retrofitting

1. debottlenecking and/or troubleshooting
2. retrofitting -- in some cases, necessary information is in project #1 statement
3. design

Background for many of these projects can be found in our design textbook.

	1	2	3
acetone	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf
acrylic acid	word pdf		word pdf
allyl chloride	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf
cumene	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf
phthalic anhydride	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf
dimethyl ether	word pdf	word pdf	word pdf
ethylene oxide	word pdf		word pdf
drying oil	word pdf		word pdf
maleic anhydride	word pdf		word pdf
MTBE	word pdf		word pdf
ethylbenzene	word pdf		word pdf
formalin	word pdf		word pdf
ethanol	word pdf		word pdf
ammonia	word pdf		word pdf
phthalic anhydride (new version)	word pdf		word pdf
styrene	word pdf		word pdf
diethyl ether	word pdf		word pdf

3. Large-scale Process Design Projects

Traditional Process Design

gold production	word pdf
formaldehyde and hydrogen peroxide enzymatically from methanol	word pdf
formalin production from methanol	word pdf
sulfur compounds from waste acid-gas stream	word pdf
tank farm for fuel oil storage	word pdf
olefin and alcohol production from wet natural gas	word pdf
production of dimethyl ether	word pdf
air separation into oxygen, nitrogen, and argon	word pdf
production of silicon compounds	word pdf
production of acrolein	word pdf
production of d,l methionine	word pdf
maleic anhydride production from n-butane	word pdf
acetaldehyde production by ethanol dehydrogenation	word pdf
carbon dioxide removal and sequestration from a power plant	word pdf
electricity cogeneration with a fuel cell using byproduct hydrogen	word pdf
recovering useful products from animal waste	word pdf
cellulosic ethanol production	word pdf
methane-syngas-methanol with microprocessing	word pdf
carbon dioxide capture (2011 version)	word pdf
Mars space station	word pdf
ethoxene process (chemicals and ethylene from ethane from Marcellus shale gas)	word pdf

For additional, environmentally related process design projects, click here.

Batch Processing Projects

batch production of amino acids	word pdf
batch production of benzaldehyde derivatives	word pdf
erythromycin production	word pdf

Chemical Product Design Projects

zebra mussel control technology	word pdf
salt chlorination device	word pdf
magnetic refrigerator	word pdf
coated seeds and fertilizers	word pdf
hydrogen fuel cell	word pdf

Multi-scale Design Projects

transdermal drug patch	word pdf
ice cream manufacture	word pdf

4. Optimization Problems

problem	type
pipe diameter-version 1	basic	word
pipe diameter-version 2	basic	word
bioreactor-version 1	basic	word
bioreactor-version 2	basic	word
bioreactor-version 3	basic	word
bioreactor-version 4	more advanced	word
batch bioreactor	more advanced	word
distillation-version 1	basic	word
distillation-version 2	basic	word
distillation-version 3	more advanced	word
compressors-version 1	basic	word
compressors-version 2	basic	word
compressors-version 3	more advanced	word
absorber-version 1	basic	word
absorber-version 2	more advanced	word
generic chemical process-version 1	project	word
generic chemical process-version 2	project	word
trumpet tower	project	word
ethanol from corn	project	word
ethanol from sugar beets	project	word
biodiesel from algae bioreactor	project	word
biodiesel from algae pond	project	word
geothermal absorption chilling	project	word
geothermal power plant	project	word

The following faculty members have contributed optimization problems:

Brian J. Anderson Robin S. Hissam Joseph A. Shaeiwitz Richard Turton

WVU Chemical Engineering Department

Written Report Guidelines	word pdf
Oral Report Guidelines	word pdf

For additional information, contact:

Joseph A. Shaeiwitz Department of Chemical Engineering West Virginia University P.O. Box 6102 Morgantown, WV 26505-6102 (304) 293-9361 fax: (304) 293-4139 joseph.shaeiwitz@mail.wvu.edu

Richard Turton Department of Chemical Engineering West Virginia University P.O. Box 6102 Morgantown, WV 26505-6102 (304) 293-9364 fax: (304) 293-4139 richard.turton@mail.wvu.edu