I am participating in a competition to identify viable new markets for approximately 2,000 tonnes of recycled HDPE collected annually from used oil containers. These include:
19-litre pails (injection molded) – 23% of the total
1-litre and 5-litre jugs (blow molded) – 77% of the total
The...
I am working on cleaning a small batch of HDPE flakes obtained from motor oil containers. My goal is to remove contaminants such as residual oil, and adhesives to evaluate the cleaning efficiency of the cleaning solution.The flakes I received from the processor were supposed to be pre-washed...
(7a and 7b) and (12a and 12b) are streams that undergo a phase change. I have broken Stream 7 into two dummy streams, one representing the stream as it is cooled to its dew point and the other representing the stream as it is further cooled to its desired temperature. Same goes to stream 12...
I am participating in a competition to identify new markets for recycling around 2000 tonnes HDPE oil containers colllected annually. About 80 % of these containers are blowded molded while the remaining are injeciton molded. They previously contained gear oil, hydraulic fluid, and engine oil...
I understand that in practice, crude methanol is first fed to a topping column to remove compounds lighter than methanol. The bottoms stream of the topping column is then pumped into the main refining column, where the methanol is purified to the required grade. However, the process flow diagram...
I am currently working on an energy management project focused on an industrial warehouse (pulp). I am trying to understand how the warehouse is heated to estimate the energy used and suggest energy saving measures. From what I understand so far, glycol is heated either by a separate boiler (its...
When bitumen is received by an upgrading facility, it is often accompanied by salt and water. In the desalter, bitumen is washed with fresh water, and a de-emulsifier is added to assist in phase separation. I have read that salt removal is challenging because salts are trapped within a bitumen...
Currently, I am working on a project that necessitates a quantitative risk assessment of crude oil pipelines.
I have collected data on crude oil incidents from the CONCAWE cross country European oil pipeline. The database includes incidents for 3 types of service: crude, refined products, and...
