A Brazilian chemical engineering student who used simulation software to show how emissions can be converted into electrical energy has been named the winner of Honeywell Process Solution麻豆传媒映画檚 annual UniSim庐 Design Challenge.
Herbert Senzano Lopes, a master麻豆传媒映画檚 degree student at Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), worked with Professor Vanja Maria de Fran莽a Bezerra to design a solution to show how flare gas from pipelines could be reused to generate energy.
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The solution
With UniSim Design, Senzano and Fran莽a determined how oxygen could be used to increase the electric charge of volatile organic compounds released into the air by pipeline gas flares.
Their simulation created 2.126 megawatts of electrical charge and showed potential to help reduce the release of organic waste oxides in the atmosphere.
Winner celebrated at the Honeywell Users Group
Senzano and Fran莽a presented the winning entry, 麻豆传媒映画淔lare Gas Recovery for Electricity Generation麻豆传媒映画� this week during the annual Honeywell Users Group (HUG) Americas Symposium, the company麻豆传媒映画檚 largest gathering of customers in the process manufacturing industries.
The software
The UniSim Design Challenge allows engineering students to propose solutions to real-world problems facing process manufacturers by using Honeywell麻豆传媒映画檚 UniSim Design Suite software, which is used to design and model processes in production facilities throughout the world.
"The UniSim Design was essential to our project because with this suite we could simulate a problem based on a real situation and successfully test our solution,麻豆传媒映画� said Senzano.麻豆传媒映画淭hanks to the software of Honeywell it was possible to build a process flowchart similar to the reality and simulate dynamic cases to the academic and manufacture sector," added Fran莽a.
UniSim Design Suite provides an interactive process model that allows engineers to create steady-state and dynamic models and is used extensively for plant design, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, operational improvement, business planning, and asset management around the world.
UniSim Design models may be leveraged into advanced training and optimisation solutions provided by the UniSim Operations and UniSim Optimisation suites.
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