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COMSATS-Lancaster Dual Degree Program: Assignment # 3 Submitted To

This document summarizes a student group's final year project on producing monoethylene glycol from carbon dioxide, ethylene oxide, and water. It discusses the project proposal, material and energy balances, equipment design including a distillation column, and challenges faced with constant feedback from supervisors. Key lessons were time management, collecting accurate data from various sources, and maintaining communication with supervisors. The project cost an estimated $79 million for the plant. Recommendations include selecting projects with available online data, using excel for calculations, and frequent meetings to address any issues.

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COMSATS-Lancaster Dual Degree Program: Assignment # 3 Submitted To

This document summarizes a student group's final year project on producing monoethylene glycol from carbon dioxide, ethylene oxide, and water. It discusses the project proposal, material and energy balances, equipment design including a distillation column, and challenges faced with constant feedback from supervisors. Key lessons were time management, collecting accurate data from various sources, and maintaining communication with supervisors. The project cost an estimated $79 million for the plant. Recommendations include selecting projects with available online data, using excel for calculations, and frequent meetings to address any issues.

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COMSATS-Lancaster Dual Degree Program

Project Planning and Management

Assignment # 3
Submitted To:
Sir Khuram Shahzad
Submitted By:
ZAGHAM NADEEM

DDP-SP13-BEC-097

MUHAMMAD AAMIR

DDP-SP13-BEC-041

M. JAHANZAIB KHAN

DDP-SP13-BEC-055

ABDUR REHMAN

DDP-SP13-BEC-001

COMSATS Institute of Information


Technology LAHORE

Supervisor

University

FYP Co-ordinators

FYP Committee

Power

High

POWER AND INTREST

Co-supervisor
Group Leader

Low

Intrest

Group Members

High

Stakeholders Management:

Stakeholder

Unaware

University

Resistant

Neutral

Supportive

C,D

Chemical
Dept.
C

Buyer

C,D

Supervisor

Community

C,D

C,D

Project
Fellows
Parents

Friends

Leading

C,D

Exceutive Summary
The final year design project report discusses the production of MEG from feed of carbon
dioxide,ethylene oxide and water.The report contains a brief introduction about the scope of the
project along with the general procedures for production of MEG and among them the best and
most economical process for its production. It also consists of material and energy balances,
which is applied across each equipment, and detailed designing of each equipment used in the
process, such as reactor,gas-liquid separator, absorber, heat exchanger and distillation. The report
also includes the estimated cost as well as the hazard,hazop and operability procedures for each
equipment. At the end the report concludes with references such as name of a book or article
from where the related data was collected.
Review and Analysis
We selected the topic after going through many project titles and finally we selected our topic
Production of Monoethylene glycol. Our next goal was to present the proposal of this topic to the
final year project panel.The project title was approved by FYP panel. The next task was to apply
the material and energy balance on our project, so we had to collect the data related to material
and energy balance. This was time consuming task as we searched. We searched many articles,
books, patents but it was hard to find data but we finally found some data related to our task and
we started to apply material balance on our project. The data that we needed to apply energy
balance was very difficult to search but after the hard work of many weeks, we finally gathered
the data related to energy balance.On day of presentation we presented the material balance and
energy balance, we submitted the both the material and energy balance to FYP team.
The next goal was to prepare design of the equipment .For the designing of Distillation. The FYP
team didnt inform us the method to be used when we completed this designing we faced
problem, they said a day before presentation that you cannot use this method as it is less
accurate, so we immediately rushed to find the alternate method but due to lack of time we didnt
accomplish the task. Similarly during the designing of heat exchanger and separator, the FYP
team pointed out many mistakes and we needed to redesign each equipment. This problem we
faced is due to lack of constant interaction with our supervisor .To improve these mistakes we
took help from our supervisor.
The next goal was to apply process and instrumentation diagram on each equipment .We faced
problem in drawing the image photo of the safety equipment on the engineering software
because we havent used this software before .it also took much of our time but we remained
successful in accomplishment of this goal.
The cost estimation of the whole plant was required by Final year project team .We worked on
four equipment s and found the cost of equipment. The cost of our plant was $79 million.

The date of internal viva of FYP was not pre announced, so were told about the viva a day
before, we were not ready to justify some of the aspects but fortunately we got time extension
because our group number was 8 and internal viva was conducted till group 5 due to shortage of
time.
The overall experience for the Final year project was good .We learnt how to search data, how to
work in shortage of time, how to manage the time, how to interact with the higher officials, how
to work in a group ,and most important being a group leader how to develop the good working
environment and team.
Lesson Laerned
Working on the final year design project taught about schedule provided by the FYP
coordination team, by keeping in touch with them. To choose a project which is already not
conducted at Comasts Institute. It taught us to manage time well, as reports and presentations
were conducted at specified dates, and to collect data from authentic sources as wrong data leads
to incorrect design of equipments, and to get the design approved by are a supervisor as his
signatures are required for submission of each report. Overall, it teaches one to how to mange
time, stress and work load
Recomendations
It is recommended to go through the list of projects select the project which related data is
available in the internet or performing in the industry before finalizing of your project and, it is
also recommended to perform all the work in excel to get correct results and save the time It is
also suggested to remain in contact with your supervisor and co supervisor, so we can perform
our task correctly and timely.
To get maximum marks in final year project, design as many equipments as you can.It is
recommended that if you feel any incorrect result of your calculations, dont proceed forward
instead go back to your calculations and find the mistake.One of the Major issue is
communication gap between FYP team and student so try to fill the gap by doing meetings.

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