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T A B L E O F CONTENTS General Description 1 Background 2 Plant Design Theme 5 General Requirements 6 Registration 7 Plant Overview 9 Timeline of Plant Design 10 The Prizes 11 Appendix 12 Contact Persons 17

G E N E R A L DESCRIPTION Plant Design Competition aims to hone participants' plant designing competence and regional awareness by focusing on empowering the nation through coal-based chemical with the given specific theme. The process is focused on producing the intermediate chemical product. We don t concern on the process to produce the downstream chemical products or end products. Participants are undergraduate students from various nations in Southeast Asian countries and beyond. 1

BACKGROUND Southeast Asia has became an important player in global coal markets and will continue its role for the coming decades. Indonesia remains one of the world s major producers and exporters, while the broader region becomes a key centre for coal demand. At the end of 2011, Southeast Asia had 28 billion tonnes in total coal reserves, or 2.7% of the world total. The vast majority of these are located in Indonesia, which contains significant hard and brown coal, and there are some hard coal reserves in Vietnam. Existing coal reserves in the region would be sufficient to sustain current rates of production for 80 years, though there is large potential for resources to be converted to reserves as exploration and production expands, particularly in Indonesia. Southeast Asia s reserves are predominantly sub-bituminous coal, bituminous coal and lignite of low and medium energy content, making them well-suited for use in power generation. Coal use continuously increase as a replacement for oil and natural gas. ASEAN plays significant roles in coal consumption and production in Asia Pacific. Using the value chain approach, it is projected that coal producer countries in ASEAN will have the chance to maximize the market through bilateral trade or AEC framework. The AEC can foster market integration in ASEAN, builds awareness of ASEAN countries to develop their infrastructure in energy sufficiency, as well as develops clean coal technology. On the other hand, energy source is not the only function of coal. Nowadays, coal is being developed as the substitute of petrochemicals feedstock. Petrochemicals are chemical products made from the hydrocarbons present in raw natural gas and petroleum crude oil. Petrochemicals are used to manufacture thousands of products 2

people use every day, like plastics, soaps, fertilizers, electronic equipment, clothing, and a host of others. But the problem is natural gas and petroleum crude oil is getting smaller. Based on the reserve to production ratio of fossil energy in Indonesia, coal has the biggest potential with lifetime of 75 years. While gas potential would be finished in the next 33 years. Oil is the smallest potential of fossil energy resources with potential last only until the next 12 years, if no new reserves are found. Feedstocks are the various hydrocarbons derived from the refining of oil, gas and coal. These are then further refined to produce chemical products. They are the building blocks of the chemical industry. These building blocks are converted into a wide range of chemical products with a wide array of uses. At the feedstock stage, they are usually known as intermediates then the intermediates are processed into plastics, liquids and resins which ultimately are turned into useful products. Some feedstocks, however, are used directly to produce chemicals, such as methane and BTX. But ethane, propane, butanes, naphtha and gas oil are optional feedstocks for steam crackers that produce intermediate chemical feedstocks. Other examples of intermediate feedstocks include ethylene, propylene, butenes and butadiene. Coal-derived feedstock is predominantly methanol, obtained from a coal-toliquids process. Coal can also be gasified to produce feedstocks. The primary raw chemical input produced from coal is methanol, which is produced through coal gasification and subsequently, methanol synthesis and refining. Coal s modern resurgence as chemical feedstocks is centered in China. Since 2000, China has been investing an increasing amount into the production of coal-based chemicals, substituting these for traditional crude oil based processes. The plausible reasons are the cheap price of coal and the strategic desire to be self-sufficient in resource inputs. 3

The industrial base originally focused on five areas of chemical replacement. Those five base chemical products currently made from coal in China are: Light oil (containing benzene, toluene and xylene) as a by-product of coke oven steel industry operations; Acetylene used for production of vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) and 1,4 Butanediol (BDO). VCM is used to produce polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastics. BDO is used for a variety of plastics, elastic; Urea and Ammonia used mainly for the production of fertilizers; Coal to Olefins (CTO), also referred to more commonly as alkenes; Monoethylene Glycol (MEG) production, utilizing a new process route based on gasification of coal with several further reactions to obtain methyl nitrate into dimethyl oxalate into MEG. 4

P L A N T D E S I G N THEME Designing Coal-based Chemical Plant to Improve the Utilization of Coal Resources and Develop the Sustainable Chemical Industry 5

G E N E R A L REQUIREMENTS 1. Participants must form a team that consists of three (3) Chemical Engineering (or Process Engineering) students from the same college or university. 2. Each participant can only participate in one team. 3. Participants who already registered for Problem Solving or Debate category are not eligible to register this category. 4. Participants must be undergraduate or vocational program (diploma) students majoring in Chemical Engineering (or Process Engineering) by 12th of March 2016. 5. Students under academic sanction are not allowed to participate this competition. 6. Each team must be accompanied by one or more faculty advisors in making of their work. 7. Invited participants are students from Southeast Asian countries and beyond. 8. Each team must register according to the rules in the Registration section and complete required administration documents. 9. All entries and administration documents will become the property of Indonesia Chemical Engineering Challenge 2016 Organizing Committee and will nor be returned. 10. The title used for the Registration, Abstract, and Final Report must be the same. 11. Plant design must have never been commercialized or won any other competitions before. Violation of this rule leads to immediate disqualification. 12. Plant design proposed by the participants must be related to the given theme. 6

REGISTRATION 1. Participants must register online at http://www.ichec-itb.com. The registration will be officially opened at September 28 th, 2015 and will be closed at October 26 th, 2015. 2. Participants will recieve notification email containing team official registration number within 2 x 24 hours after online registration. 3. Participants must pay registration fee via transfer to: Name : ICHEC 2016 Acc. Number : 0393897238 Bank BNI Registration fee is : USD 50 for international participants (*) Rp 300.XXX,00 for Indonesian participants (**) * For international participants, please enter your registration number in payment annotation ** With XXX is your registration number 4. Participants must attach the following registration documents and submit them to http://www.ichec-itb.com. The required registration documents are: - Plant Design Abstract* (*.pdf maximum 300 KB) *)contains a brief description of the plant and the chemical proccesses involved in it, raw materials and reference of materials availability. Refer to appendix 7

section for the abstract writing terms. - Scanned letter from Major Departemen or University stating that each team member is currently enrolled as student in the stated college or university and not under academic sanction (*.jpg/*.jpeg maximum 500 KB) - Scanned letter from the faculty advisor stating that he/she is supervising the team (*.jpg/*.jpeg) - Scanned payment receipt (*.jpg/*.jpeg maximum 500 KB) - Newest photo (formal,colored, not black and white or grayscale; size 4 cm x 6 cm) of each team member (*.jpg/*.jpeg maximum 500 KB for each photo) - Scanned valid student ID card of each team member (*.jpg/*.jpeg maximum 500 KB for each file) These documents must be submitted before 11.59 p.m. (GMT +7) or 23.59 WIB, October 26 th, 2015. Late submission after the deadline will be penalized (refer to appendix section for penalty incurrences). Each team will receive a notification email confirming their submission within 2 x 24 hours after submitting the documents. Results of the first stage selection process will be announced at www.ichec-itb.com on November 16 th, 2015. Teams succeding in passing the first stage are eligible to enter the second stage. Guidebook and terms of second stage selection process will be announced soon. 8

PLANT OVERVIEW The scope of this competition is designing a plant which produce intermediate chemical product, like Styrene, Polyethylene, Propylene, Caprolactam, Vinyl Chloride Monomer, Ethylene Glycol, etc. The raw material of the plant must be coal. Participants have to design the first process of converting the coal, whether it is pyrolysis, hydropyrolysis, or gasification. Then, participants will design the next processes which produce the chemical product. We do not concern about the process which converts intermediate chemical products to downstream chemical products and end products, such as Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS), Styrene Acrylonitrile (SAN), plastic, rubber, etc. Participants are not allowed to produce coal-based fuel, like diesel and gasoline. Participants should process the byproducts in the plant only until the product can be sold (not to process them into chemical products as well). If byproducts can be solddirectly, then the process is not required. All processes in the plant which is designed should be sustainable and environmentally friendly. 9

T I M E L I N E O F PLANT DESIGN First Stage Registration September 28 th, 2015 October 26 th, 2015 Abstract submission September 28 th, 2015 October 26 th, 2015 Selected Abstract Announcement November 16 th, 2015 Second Stage Full paper submission November 16 th, 2015 January 4 th, 2016 Grand finalist announcement February 8 th, 2016 Final Stage Grand Final 10 th 12 th March, 2016 10

T H E PRIZES 1 st winner IDR 30.000.000 2 nd winner IDR 15.000.000 3 rd winner IDR 10.000.000 At the end of the selection, five teams will be chosen to go to the Grand Final in Bandung, Indonesia. The accommodation including housing, transportation*, and meals of the finalists during the grand final will be covered by the committee. *Terms and conditions for transportation fee: 1. This advantage only applies to the participants from Southeast Asia region. 2. The amount of money will be reimbursed by the committee is based on the costs of the transportation at the most economical rate from your country (or city) to Bandung, Indonesia. 3. Reimbursement is up to IDR 1.500.000 per person. 11

A P P E N D I X ABSTRACT WRITING TERMS Technical Specifications : 1. Language : UK or US English 2. Typefaces : Times New Roman, 12 pt 3. Page margin and alignments - Top & Left : 4 cm - Bottom & Right : 3 cm - Paragraph alignment : Justify - Line spacing : 1,15 line - Paper size : A4 - Paper orientation : Portrait 4. File type : *.pdf 5. Content Specifications a. Abstract title written in UPPERCASE, centered and bold style b. Include maximum of five (5) keywords at the end of the last paragraph, written in bold italic style c. Maximum words count: 300 words (not included title and keywords) d. Do not include the identities of team members as well as institution, include only the team registration number 12

e. The submitted abstract must contain the following points: Brief description (general overview) of the plant Background of the idea Raw materials or resources (amount, availability and spesifications) needed for the plant Processing route: complexity and involved processes Generated products from the plant o Have to be commodity, suitable for regional uses, not too complex or specialized o State the product value, market target, and advantages or innovation compared to existing and competing products Impact in empowering regional industrial sector 10 13

YOUR ABSTRACT TITLE SHOULD BE WRITTEN HERE IN THIS FORMAT Team Number: XXXXX Write the five digit numbers only ABSTRACT (Abstract begins here).................. Key words: include, only, five, maximum, keywords

A P P E N D I X ABSTRACT ASSESMENT CRITERIA Assessment Criteria Weight Factor A. Technical 1. Layout, text order, and neatness 3 2. Adherence to content requirements 3 3. Language 4 Technical total score 10 B. Content 1. Plant background and description 10 2. Raw materials or resources used 10 3. Process feasibility 10 4. Design s originality and uniqueness 20 5. Products value 20 6. Impact to regional industrial sector 20 Content total score 90 ABSTRACT TOTAL SCORE 100 15

A P P E N D I X PENALTY INCURRENCES Penalty Incurrences Consequences 1. Fail in submitting registration documents before the official deadline If less than 3 hours 5 points deduction for every 1 hour late If more than 3 hours Disqualification 2. Inclusion of team members and institution 5 points deduction identities* 3. Wrong name format of registration documents 5 points deduction 4. Number of abstract words exceed the maximum 5 points deduction limit 5. Incomplete requirements 5 points deduction per requirement 6. Plagiarism Disqualification 7. Submitted work has been commercialized or won Disqualification any other competitions 16

CONTACT PERSONS Agus (+6285751480174) Kevin (+6281299069168) Chandra (+6282138112175) ichec2016@gmail.com www.ichec-itb.com @ichec @IChEC2016 Indonesia Chemical Engineering Challenge 2016 17