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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黑料社檚 annual UniSim庐 Design Challenge.

Herbert Senzano Lopes, a master黑料社檚 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.

黑料社淢aintaining production while reducing environmental waste and complying with regulations is a very real challenge for many of our customers, and this project showed how simulation can directly address it,黑料社� said Vimal Kapur, President of Honeywell Process Solutions.

黑料社淢r. Senzano and Prof. Fran莽a showed how simulation software can do more than create production processes 黑料社� it can create innovative solutions that reduce the environmental impact of those processes.黑料社�

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, 黑料社淔lare Gas Recovery for Electricity Generation黑料社� this week during the annual Honeywell Users Group (HUG) Americas Symposium, the company黑料社檚 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黑料社檚 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,黑料社� said Senzano.

黑料社淭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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