Plant Design Competition Guide Book

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GENERALDESCRIPTION

This competition aims to hone participants plant designing competence and regional

awareness by focusing on sustainable commodity chemical production and its

benefits to the ASEAN countries. The participants will be undergraduate students

from various Southeast Asian countries with various experiences and backgrounds.

DETAILEDBACKGROUND

Southeast Asia, one of the largest regions on earth, stretches for more than 6000

kilometres on its furthest length and over 4,5 million square kilometres of area. This

is one of the most demographically diverse regions, comprising hundreds of ethnic

groups with more than 600 millions of population, not mentioning its large economic

strength and resources potential, united in one solid entity, ASEAN (Association of

Southeast Asian Nations). Those numbers might be very enticing, but in reality there

are still many challenges encountered by ASEAN members such as economic

inequalities, large amount of poverty, and environmental destructions. Ironically,

ASEAN has a wealth of treasures buried beneath the problems. Fertile lands, rich

biodiversity, hundred millions of productive people, are just a few of ASEANs many

potentials. Thus, heaps of responsibilities are placed upon shoulders of many

ASEANs future engineers, the key of creating a better ASEAN.

One of the main focus problems is wasted potential of resources. Despite its natural

resource wealth, they only undergo minimum processing, or worse, exported raw to

the developed countries, including million barrels of crude palm oil, crude fossil oil,

and million tonnes of important minerals per year, during the last few decades. This

creates a problem since raw materials are considered the cheapest grade of the

product. By exporting it directly, the country will only get the minimum benefits,

which is often not enough in meeting the demands to accelerate the economy

growth. Even more perturbingly, the already terrible consequences are further

exacerbated that many of the net products such as high-grade chemicals and

catalysts are imported back to ASEAN, thus creating a balance deficit. The ultimate


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solution is to emphasize the importance of downstream industries, which process

raw products into more refined and varied products, thus increasing the profit

margin and usability of the products. Moreover, due to the more complex nature of

the process, downstream industries will also generate a lot more job opportunities,

thus decreasing the unemployment rate and will trigger growth of the countrys

overall economic sector. This can be attained by establishing commodity chemical

plants, as opposed to direct resource extraction. The plants are important precursors

towards the development of more specialty chemical plants and are more suited to

the emerging markets such as ASEAN.

In ASEAN, another interesting fact is the huge population, which means a huge

amount of product consumption and utilization. But the main problem is that a

majority amount of product is still directly or indirectly generated from petroleum,

which in turn obtained from non-renewable fossil fuels. They are currently also the

primary sources of commodity chemicals. It is already known that fossil fuels will be

depleted soon, or if not, are much harder to extract in the following years.

Furthermore, utilization of fossil fuels are also known to give rise to its infamous side

effect, the emission of greenhouse gases, which leads to a global scale climate

change. By utilizing bio-based sources instead of petroleum-based sources, the

impact can be further minimized since it can reduce a significant amount of

greenhouse gases emissions. The theory is that greenhouse gases absorbed by plants

during its growth are roughly equivalent to the amount of gases produced when it is

utilized. This would allow a more carbon neutral cycle compared to conventional

utilization.

In this category, participants are challenged to solve the problem by designing an

economically beneficial plant for commodity chemicals using bio-based resources. As

to remember, the profit for the plant does not only rely on the production of the

chemicals as the major product but also the production of its byproducts, such as

oleochemicals, biodiesel, etc. Participants are expected to increase the value of local

resources unique to their region thus encouraging the whole ASEAN region to be

able to compete with more developed industries.


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A thorough and comprehensive approach will be required since those stated

solutions would not be easily implemented in the region, as there are still many

obstacles such as inadequate technologies, conflicting feedstocks, and unsupportive

regulations. By bringing the problem, it is hoped that bright young minds of future

ASEAN generations will be stimulated and challenged through this series of plant

design competition.

PLANT DESIGN THEME

Designing Bio-based Commodity Chemical Plant to empower ASEAN

Economic Community (AEC)


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General Requirements

1. Participants must form a team that consists of three (3) Chemical Engineeringstudents from the same college or university

2. One participant can only participate in one team3. Participants must be accompanied by one or more lecturers in the making of

their work4. Participating students must be undergraduate student majoring in Chemical

Engineering by 10 December 2013, preferably in their 3rd

or 4th

year5. Invited participants are students from ASEAN member countries6. Students under academic sanction are not allowed to participate in the

competition7. Participating students must register according to the rules in the Registration

section8. Participating students must complete the required administration documents9. All entries and administration documents become the property of the

Indonesia Chemical Engineering Challenge 2014 committee and cannot be

returned10.The title used for the Registration, Abstract, and Final Report must be same11.Plant design must have never been commercialized or won a similar

competition. Violation of this rule leads to immediate disqualification.12.Plant designs proposed by the participants must be related to our theme of

Designing Bio-based Commodity Chemical Plant to empower ASEAN

Economic Community (AEC).


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Registration

1. Participants must register online at www.ichec-itb.com The registration will beopened at 14 October 2013 and will be closed on 10 December 2013

2. Participants will receive notification email containing teams official registration

number within 2 x 24 hours after online registration 3. Participants must pay the registration fee via transfer to

Name : Suci Permata Arief

Acc number: 0310239694.

Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI)

Or

Name : Suci Permata Arief

Acc number: 9000017361644

Bank Mandiri

The registration fee is: USD 50 for international participants and

Rp 300,000 for Indonesian participants

4. Participants must attach the following registration documents and email it [email protected] with IChEC2014_PD1_XXXXX as the subject. XXXXX

are the registration numbers explained in the previous points.

The required documents are:

- Plant Design Abstract **

**Abstract of Plant Design contains a brief description of the plant and the chemicalprocesses that take place in them, raw materials, and reference of materials

availability.

**Please refer to the appendix section regarding the abstract report terms

- Scanned letter from Major Department or University stating that each team member is

enrolled as a student in the stated college or university.

- Scanned letter from the faculty advisor stating that he / she is supervising the team


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- Scanned payment receipt

- Newest photo (colour, not black and white or grayscale) of each team member

- Scanned valid student ID card of each team member

* All of the documents must be zipped into one file named

IChEC2014_PD1_XXXXX.zip

(Only *.ZIP file type is approved)

* These documents must be sent before 24.00 UTC+7 10 December 2013. Late

submissions after the deadline are NOT accepted.

*xxxxx should be changed with the official team number.

4. Each team will receive an email from the committee confirming their submissionwithin 2 x 24 hours after sending the email stated in point 3.

*If you do not receive the email from the committee within the time span please

contact us as soon as possible.

5. Results from the first phase of the selection process will be announced at

www.ichec-itb.com on 20 December 2013. Teams that succeed in passing the first

phase can continue to the second phase of the selection process. Second phase

selection process terms will be announced soon.


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ppen ixAbstract Writing Terms

Technical Specifications

Language UK or US English

Typefaces Times New Roman, 11 pt

Page margin and alignments Top & Left: 4 cm Bottom & Right: 3 cm Paragraph alignment: Justify

Minimum line spacing: 1,15 line Paper size: A4

Content Specifications

Include maximum of 5 keywords at the end of abstract, written in italic boldstyle

Maximum words count: 300 words The abstract must include the following points:

Brief description of the plant General background of the idea ASEAN insight, contains the plants relevance & benefits to the ASEAN


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Economic Community Raw materials and its availability references or facts

Raw materials must be bio-based, which is defined asmaterials that does not come from petroleum or petroleum

derived sources The manufacturing that take place

Is it easy or complex? Which reactions or processes will be used

Products that will be generated from the plant The product must fulfill the requirement of bio-based

commodity chemicals, which are of followings: Large demands, thus capable and feasible to be

produced in mass scale Suitable to be implemented in the ASEAN Economic

Community

It should be neither still visibly raw nor too complex nor toospecialized (available in minute quantities or low demands)

State the value of the product, market target, and advantagescompared to existing and competing products

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Plant Design Competition Guide Book