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Fall 2015
Assignment 1
Background
Last semester students designed a process to convert stranded natural gas from the North Dakota
Bakken oilfield into a liquid methanol product that could be shipped out by rail. As a follow-on
study, your group has been requested to search for and conduct a preliminary screening of process
alternatives for utilizing a methanol feedstock. Basis is the ability to process 100 million lbm/year
of methanol feedstock.
Assignment
Your assignment is to provide Phase 1 preliminary screening of process alternatives for this new
plant. Remember that Phase 1 involves a rough technical & economic screening of process &
chemistry alternatives, culminating in a block flow diagram of the proposed process.
Specifically, you are to prepare the following by group meeting time, week of September 28th:
2. An appendix should be included with its own table of contents. Page numbering may
continue from the end of the report or it may restart. This appendix should include:
a. Excel spreadsheets for any capital cost estimations (using CAPCOST) and the cash flow
analysis.
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Other Rules
Concepts taken from the literature (journal articles, chemical encyclopedias, patents, etc.) must
be properly cited. Take advantage of our weekly meeting time, but don’t wait till our next meeting
if you are stuck.
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