Project: Waste Fuel Upgrading
Team: Zawer Wojokh; Lesa Glick; Elena Zjarnik; Joseph Kareem
Project Definition: The projects consists of upgrading a waste
fuel system. The current plant sends a by-product stream to a
boiler. In the boiler the stream is burned as a fuel to produce high
pressure steam that is used in the existing plant. New environmental
regulations require that the acetone be removed from the stream and sold as
99.5% purity. The remainder of the stream is to be dealt with in
various ways.
The Stream contains a high weight percent acetone, but also
has methanol with which an azeotrope is formed. The above issue must be
addressed and the problem solved achieving a minimum of 12% IRR. The seed
model will be used in conjunction with Icarus to perform an economic
evaluation.
Project: The Conversion of SO2 to SO3
Using Plasma Technology
Team: Rachel Hudacko; David Merkooloff; Matthew Jadro; Erin
McFadden
Project Definition: The objective is to decontaminate an
exhaust stream from Colgate-Palmolive's sulphonation process by converting SO2
to SO3 using Plasma technology. In implementing such
technology, the plant's footprint and operating costs are reduced by replacing
the existing electrostatic precipitator and caustic soda scrubber with a small
plasma reactor.
Project: NTP (Non - Thermal Plasma) Hydrogen Generation
Team: Van Ortega Cayetano; Shama Karu; Sean McKeown;
Themistoklis Zacharatos
Project Definition: Non-thermal plasma was used to generate
hydrogen. A simple decomposition reaction removing one or more hydrogen
atoms from a methane molecule is the reaction of choice toward such an
end. In essence a functional plasma reactor was developed to break down
methane and other hydrogen rich gases into their components and harvest the
hydrogen generated by the reactor for later use.
For more information see: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~spm209/SD.html
Project Definition: Aspen simulation of an oxygen enriched
steam methane reforming plant.
Team: Alper Turhan; Raymond Souweha
Project Definition: Hydrogen generation using methanol as a
fuel.
