Internship Report UNICOL
Internship Report UNICOL
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Acknowledgement
All the thanks and praises for Allah who bestowed guidance and wisdom to mankind
and enabled me to complete this work. I am very thankful to all our Superiors who
helped us a lot to produce this report. I am thankful to our department who
accepted our request to do internship in UNICOL Ltd, Mirpurkhas. I am
also grateful to all employees of the UNICOL Ltd, Mirpurkhas who guide me during
the course of internship. The behavior of all the department supervisors is very good to
me because they gave me a lot of time to guide me the mechanism of all departments in
which I worked. I am also thankful to the management of UNICOL Ltd, Mirpurkhas, who
gave me all the valuable support and opportunities to complete 01 week
Internship program e and compile this report.
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Tables of Contents
1. Acknowledgement. 2
3. Introduction to UNICOL. 6
8. RO Plant. 18-19
11 Conclusion 22
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INTRODUCTION TO ETHANOL
Ethanol, also commonly referred to as ethyl alcohol, pure alcohol, grain alcohol, and
drinking alcohol, is most known as the alcohol present in alcoholic beverages. Ethanol,
which can also be abbreviated as EtOH, is a colorless liquid with a slight odor, and it is
soluble in water. It is flammable and volatile, so it evaporates easily when left in an open
container.
Ethanol's chemical formula is C2H6O. This chemical formula can also be written as
CH3CH2OH or C2H5OH. It is made of nine atoms that include two carbon (C) atoms,
six hydrogen (H) atoms, and one oxygen (O) atom.
Pakistan is presently the 5th largest country in the world in term of area under
sugarcane cultivation and is consistently ranked in the top ten sugar producing countries.
In the last 2 decades Pakistan has consistently been ranked as one of the 3rd largest
molasses exporters in the world. However since the new millennium there has been
consistent investment in Ethanol distilling and now the country has become a major
Ethanol exporter. Ethanol exports have increased from 100,000 Tons in 2004 to 225,000
Ton in 2010. Records highest exports of 350,000 Tons were seen in 2008.
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INTRODUCTION TO UNICOL
Unicol limited, a public unquoted company, is a joint venture with shares equally held among
Faran Sugar Mills, Mehran Sugar Mills and Mirpurkhas Sugar Mills. All three Companies are
listed on the different Stock Exchanges of Pakistan. Unicol is located at Mirpurkhas which is
around 230 Km from Karachi.
Unicol commenced its operations in August 2007 & is Producing Ethanol from Sugar Cane
Molasses. The Plant is located at Mirpurkhas, Sindh. On a 98 acre plot and has Designed
Capacity Of 100,000 Liters Or 80 Metric Tons (MT) per day .The plant is designed by Maguin
Interis, France and the Bio Gas Plant is designed by Proserpol, France both these companies are
well recognized in their respective Fields . Unicol can Produce Different grades of Ethanol,
including ENA Anhydrous (99.9%) , ENA (>96%) and B-grade (>92%) .
Presently 100%of Unicol’s Ethanol is being exported with the majority destined for European
markets. Unicol is presently in the process of being registered as a CDM project.
Unicol being part of Economic development and providing employment in Pakistan’s Rural
areas, ensures the Compliance of all Health, Safety, and Environmental laws and procedures .
The Ethanol produce by Unicol has various uses in different Industries like Pharmaceuticals, Air
Fresheners (Aerosol), Cleaning products, Perfumes, Personal Care Products, Printing Ink, Fabric
Softener, Vinegar & Yeast, Paints and Varnish, Art, Fuel, Preserving Agents and Chemical
Manufacturing.
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This industry produces alcohol as their main product.
This industry has 2 units in every plant and has same quantity of tanks and having
same process.
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PRE- FERMENTATION STAGE:
Pre-fermentation stage is understood as mother fermentation and pre-fermenters
are mother fermenters.
Yeast cell is developed in this process which converts in ethanol.
There are three pre-fermenters at one unit, two units contains 6 pre-fermenters.
There is a static mixer M411.
Mash comes in M411 and dilution is done with water and brix becomes to 12.5 in
M411.
Diluted mash is feed for pre-fermenters R411, R412 and R413.
We provide diluted mash, air, antifoam and nutrients for developing of yeast.
Temperature is maintained to 30-31oC.
Pre-fermenters mash is cooled by cooling water provided by cooling towers.
First Pre-fermenters is filled at a level of 4m and second to 2m.
1m mash is taken and rest other materials for production and protection of yeast
cell.
Urea (NH2CONH2) provides power to grow up the cell.
Safe instant urea, 20kg of a bag is put in pre-fermenters.
3Kg of phosphoric acid (H3PO4), is also a nutrients and provides to pre-
fermenters.
H3PO4 separates those cells which attach with each other.
3kg of sodium fluoride (Na2F) is also given to it because it kills the anti-cells
which are harmful for yeast cells.
BUDDING:
It is a process of asexual reproduction of smaller cells from large ones. This
process increases the quantity of developing cells.
AEROBIC REACTION:
Aerobic reaction is indication of any reaction which allows the air.
Air is provided in pre-fermentatic stage because of cells so that they can breathe
and grow up.
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FERMENTATION STAGE:
Fermentation is a main process which gives fully alcohol.
Except alcohol it releases CO2 gas also which is some processed and sold out.
Fermentation is actually a biological reaction.
Yeast cell have grown up is this stage. They start eating sugar and suddenly
convert in to our required product ethanol.
Mixer M412 is used for fermenters.
Brix is decreased to 31 by dilution of water.
Fermenter is leveled 4m from pre-fermenters.
10000kg mash is provided as feed.
15 hours feed is provided and stopped.
7.5 to 7.7% ethanol occurs on 8m and feed is stopped on 8.5m level.
Total 40 hours are time of fermentation process.
After 40 hours, fermented alcohol is sent to tank R430 and transferred to
distillation.
One unit of fermentation has eight fermenters and two units contain 16 fermenters.
R421 to R428 are eight fermenters of unit one.
Similarly unit two contains eight fermenters, namely R1421 to R1428.
ANAEROBIC REACTION:
It is the reaction which is in absence of air. It is opposite to aerobic.
In fermentations, air is not supplied because cells have grown up so anaerobic
reaction occurs.
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DISTILLATION STAGE:
Distillation is the main stage in all due to its performance of working.
It is a performance in which different products from crude product are extracted or
separated on the basis of boiling points.
Seven columns are working in distillery section.
From seven, three columns are heated by steam coming from boiler. Those
columns work under pressure.
And remaining four columns are heated by alcoholic vapors. They work under
vacuum. Alcoholic vapors come from columns working under pressure.
C530 E530
C550 E550
C540 E540
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RE-BOILER:
It is a type of heat exchanger in which reboils evaporate the liquid.
It is also known as shell and tube heat exchanger.
Tubes have alcoholic and steam passes in steam that evaporate alcohol in form of
vapors and those vapors heat working under vacuum columns.
USES OF ETHANOL:
It is used in drinking bears and wines
Used in manufacturing of drugs.
Used as a fuel for vehicles
Used in spirit
Unicol obtains methanol, propanol and butanol in less quantity, except ethanol.
PRODUCTS:
Superfine (A grade alcohol) 96.5%.
Low grade (B) other alcohol mixture 95%.
Fuel grade 99.99%.
Fusil oil is very less quantity and used in cosmetic items manufacturing.
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BIOGAS PLANT
Biogas is a mixture of methane and carbon dioxide produced by the bacterial
decomposition of organic wastes and used as a fuel.
The spent wash is coming to Biogas plant in the storage tanks called PITS (An area
reserved or enclosed for a specific purpose i.e: for storage of spent wash.)
Normally the spent wash coming from distillery is very hot and not able to use for the
further process so , here we use pits for cooling purpose then the feed pump send the
spent wash to the Digestor for further process.
DIGESTOR:
A container in which substances are treated with heat, enzymes, or a solvent in order to
promote decomposition or extract essential components.
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HYDROLYSIS:-
During hydrolysis, the first stage, bacteria transform the particulate organic substrate into
liquefied monomers and polymers i.e. proteins, carbohydrates and fats are transformed to
amino acids, mono saccharides and fatty acids respectively. Equation 1 shows an
example of a hydrolysis reaction where organic waste is broken down into a simple
sugar, in this case, glucose.
Equation 1: C6H10O4 + 2H2O → C6H12O6 + 2H2
ACIDOGENESIS:-
In the second stage, acidogenic bacteria transform the products of the first reaction into
short chain volatile acids, ketones, alcohols, hydrogen and carbon dioxide. The principal
acidogenesis stage products are propionic acid (CH3CH2COOH), butyric acid
(CH3CH2CH2COOH), acetic acid (CH3COOH), formic acid (HCOOH), lactic acid
(C3H6O3), ethanol (C2H5OH) and methanol (CH3OH), among other. From these products,
the hydrogen, carbon dioxide and acetic acid will skip the third stage, acetogenesis, and
be utilized directly by the methanogenic bacteria in the final stage (Figure 2). Equations
2,3 and 4 represent three typical acidogenesis reactions where glucose is converted to
ethanol, propionate and acetic acid, respectively.
Equation 2: C6H12O6 ↔ 2CH3CH2OH + 2CO2
Equation 3: C6H12O6 + 2H2 ↔ 2CH3CH2COOH + 2H2O
Equation 4: C6H12O6 → 3CH3COOH
ACETOGENESIS:-
In the third stage, known as acetogenesis, the rest of the acidogenesis products, i.e. the
propionic acid, butyric acid and alcohols are transformed by acetogenic bacteria into
hydrogen, carbon dioxide and acetic acid (Figure 2). Hydrogen plays an important
intermediary role in this process, as the reaction will only occur if the hydrogen partial
pressure is low enough to thermodynamically allow the conversion of all the acids. Such
lowering of the partial pressure is carried out by hydrogen scavenging bacteria, thus the
hydrogen concentration of a digester is an indicator of its health. Equation 5 represents
the conversion of propionate to acetate, only achievable at low hydrogen pressure.
Glucose (Equation 6) and ethanol (Equation 7) among others are also converted to acetate
during the third stage of anaerobic fermentation.
Equation 5: CH3CH2COO- + 3H2O ↔ CH3COO- + H+ + HCO3- + 3H2
Equation 6: C6H12O6 + 2H2O ↔ 2CH3COOH + 2CO2 + 4H2
Equation 7: CH3CH2OH + 2H2O ↔ CH3COO- + 2H2 +H+
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METHANOGENESIS:-
The fourth and final stage is called methanogenesis. During this stage, microorganisms
convert the hydrogen and acetic acid formed by the acid formers to methane gas and
carbon dioxide. The bacteria responsible for this conversion are called methanogens and
are strict anaerobes. Waste stabilization is accomplished when methane gas and carbon
dioxide are produced.
Equation 8: CO2 + 4H2 → CH4 + 2H2O
Equation 9: 2C2H5OH + CO2 → CH4 + 2CH3COOH
Equation 10: CH3COOH → CH4 + CO2
Now, the Bio-gas is released by digester tank and move through it to further
process and the material goes to the Degassing tank. In this tank we inject Ferric Chloride
(FeCl3) for sludge settlement.
Now, the material send to Lamella Clarifier or Clarifier
both are used in the industry for same purpose.
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Lamella Clarifier:
Also known as Inclined Plate Settler (IPS). A type of settler designed to remove
particulates from liquids. Now the Lamella Clarifier settled down the active mass and
send back to Digester for Recycling Purpose and the liquid outlet send to lagoon pits.
CLARIFIER:-
A clarifier is generally used to remove solid particulates or suspended solids from liquid
for clarification and (or) thickening. Concentrated impurities, discharged from the bottom
of the tank are known as sludge, while the particles that float to the surface of the liquid
are called scum.
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CO2 RECOVERY PLANT
Raw C02 Gas washer KMnO4 column washing column
carbon purifier pre-cooler Dryerspurifiers’liquefaction &
refrigeration unit’s storage tanks.
As we know the Carbon dioxide coming from Fermentation into the CO2 plant is not
pure. So for making it pure there is a plant named as LCO2 recovery plant.
First the CO2 is passed through the column/chamber named as scrubber where the
water showered from the top, the impurities of CO2 are mixed with water and the
CO2 passed away.
The CO2 come to second chamber or column which is named as K2MnO4
column, where the K2MnO4 and soda ash making oxidation agent to remove the
impurities of CO2 like, ammonia etc.
Third column is also named as K2MnO4 column and the same process is carried
out there.
Fourth column is again scrubber where the water is showered to remove the
impurities of CO2 like K2MnO4 particles.
Now the CO2 enters into the Low pressure Carbon purifier where the CO2 smell is
removed and the colour is also changed into pure white colour.
After it the compressors are attached with that column which increase the pressure
of CO2 and send it to dryer.
In dryer there is Aluminum plate which sucks the moisture and dries the gas.
After Dryer purifier is attached which purifies the CO2. And send it to reboiler
through pumps.
In reboiler Freon gas is used for maintaining the temperature of CO2. And
converting it into pure liquid form.
The LCO2 then send into the storage Tanks.
There are three tanks two having capacity of 50 tons and one of 100 tons. There is
a total 200 tons capacity of storage tanks.
Then the CO2 is filled to containers through filling station. Send to different
companies for different purposes (like, Pepsi for beverage use) through containers.
USES OF CO2
Carbonation of beverages
Quick cooling of meats
Refrigeration (Dry Ice)
Biggest demand during summer time
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INTRODUCTION TO REVERSE OSMOSIS
(R.O PLANT)
A technique used in process requiring high-quality, purified water, such in
semiconductor processing or biochemical application, is reverse osmosis. It can be used
to treat boiler feed water, industrial waste water, or process water. Reverse Osmosis is a
water purification technique that reduces the quantity of dissolved solids in solutions . It
was first developed in the 1950’s by the US government to provide fresh drinking water
for the Navy, and since then, advances have made it much more feasible for obtaining
purified water from wastewater produced in many industrial applications.
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REVERSE OSMOSIS (RO) WATER TREATMENT PROCESS
Firstly the water comes from the cooling tower to the sand filter of (RO). In this
the water is filtered.
Now it will send to the Feed tank /Storage Tank. In this the water is stored.
Now with the help of Feed pump we send water to Multimedia tank/Sand filter to
Further process. The capacity of one (1) tank is 76 m3/hr. There are two (2)
multimedia’s here. In this multimedia there are four (4) types of sand are used to
remove impurities from water.
There are 4 types of sand present in it.
1. Silica
2. Gravel
3. Arthaside
4. Carbon
Now, we add chemicals in it to remove germs, fungi, Nan - particles of dust,
impurities. There are two (2) chemicals.
1. Broad spectrum Micro-bio-oxide.(350)
2. Anti scalent.(270)
Now, we add acid in it to maintain the PH.
Now there are two (2) bag filters & two (2) Cottage filters.
Now by the help of high pressure pump we send water to membranes for further
purifications. There are total 10 tubes and in each tube 10 membranes are present.
Now there is one (1) flushing stand by tank. For emergency purpose. The capacity
of this tank is 3786 liters.
Now the water is filtered and move from membranes to the RO product tank. The
capacity of this tank is 9464 liters.
Now, we further move water to the Mixed Bed tank. In this tank there are two
chemicals reactions are reacted. Anion & Cation are two chemicals reaction being
reacted in it for polishing / shining the water.
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BOILER
Steam boiler or simply a boiler is basically a closed vessel into which water is heated
until the water is converted into steam at required pressure.
POWER HOUSE:
Power house produces electricity for industrial use only.
There is a boiler which receives 30% bagasse and 70% biogas (CH4) as fuel. It
burns them to create pressure of steam is 60 bars and it operates steam turbines
and that operates generator and 4.5 M watt of electricity is produced.
Whole industry uses 2.4 M watt whereas 2.1 M watt losses.
Japanese turbine is working in UNICOL rages which and its cost is 120000000(12
crores) and uses in cold drink bottles. Steam normal temperature is 500oC but it
has been designed for 510C.
Input rpm are 8424 but in output it gives 1500 rpm to generator.
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COOLING TOWER:
It is equipment which cools down the temperature of heat water to make it cold.
UNICOL MPK has two forced counter flow cooling which are one type of
mechanical draft cool tower.
Both cooling towers provide cold water one for first unit and second for second
unit.
Both have same process and mechanism.
Three water lines are fitted to provide water to different sections.
Blue line is for process water, dark green line for fermentations and green light
with blue shade for distillation.
P620 A, B, C, P630 A, B, C & P640 A, B, C pump for unit 1.
P1620 A, B, C, P1630 A, B, C & P1640 A, B, C pump for unit 1.
Three fans 620, 630,640 (unit 1) & 1620, 1630 & 1640 (unit 2) are put.
F620 or F1620 has 0.45 amp & 2bar pressure.
F630 or F1630 has 41.5 amp & 2bar pressure.
F640 or F1640 has 0.38 amp & pressure changes.
F620 or F1620 is for process water 4.2 bar is pressure.
F630 or F1630 is for distillation 2bar pressure.
F640 or F1640 is for fermentation 2 to 2.5bar pressure.
F620 or F1620 has capacity of 100m3/hr.
F630 or F1630 has capacity of 700m3/hr.
F640 or F1640 has capacity of 600m3/hr.
8oC temperature is reduced in cooling tower.
Chemical design is carried out by mixture of two chemicals Z214 & CT215.
Both chemicals are providing 6kg each.
These chemical remove corrosion and dust particles from tank.
SAND FILTERS:
These are tanks in which cleans water from mud with the help of stones.
P620 or P1620 has 22kW.
P630 or 1630 has 110kW.
P640 or 1640 has 130kW.
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CONCLUSION
In review this internship has been an excellent and rewarding experience. I have been
able to meet and make network with so many people that I am sure that it will be able to help me
with opportunities in the future.
One main thing that I have learned through this internship is time management skills as
well as self-motivation. When I first started I did not think that I was going to be able to make
myself stay in an industry for eight hours a day, seven days a week. Once I realized what I had to
do, I organized my day and work so that I was not overlapping or wasting my hours. I learned that
I need to be organized and have questions ready for when it was the correct time to get
feedback. From this internship and time management I had to learn how to motivate ourselves
through being in the industry for so many hours. I can honestly say that my time spent interning
with UNICOL Ltd resulted in one of the best winter of my life.
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NAME: KANWAL KUMAR
ROLL # 15 CH 155
CONTACT # 03332519347
E-MAIL: [email protected]
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