Computer-Aided Scaleup Process Integration, Economic Feasibility And Uncertainty Evaluation Of Bioclarified Water Recovery From Petroleum Waste Water:- Osoh, Kufre A
ABSTRACT
This study presents ASPEN Base Case Simulation
(ABCS), preliminary process design with filtration integration,
techno-economics and uncertainty analysis of bioclarified water production from
petroleum wastewater. ABCS, scale-up design and economics were performed using
inherent design and costing algorithms in ASPEN Batch Process Developer '
(ABPD) V10. The process profitability indices such as Net Present Value (NPV), Internal
Rate ofReturn (IRR), Return on Investment (ROI) and Payback Time (PBT) were
evaluated in a user-defined developed Microsoft-excel version 2018. Predictive
models for predicting and optimizing techno-economic parameters: return on
investment (ROI), payback time (PBT) and production rate (PR) were achieved in
RSM via Box-Behinken Design (BBD) technique of Design Expert V13. The
regression models gave R2 values of 0.9984, 0.9920 and 0.8867 for return on
investment, payback time and production rate respectively. Monte • Carlo
Simulation in Crystal Ball Oracle software was used to perform the
profitability sensitivity and uncertainty analyses. The annual production
target (600,0001itres/year) scaleup simulation results gave batch size
4061itre/batch, annual number of batches produced 1469batches/year. Base case
capacity results showed that the total capital investment, NPV, IRR, ROI and
PBT are $631485, $68932.18,9%, 15.8% and 6.33yrsrespectively. Sensitivity
analysis shows that selling price has the highest contribution for both the NPV
and the IRR respectively. The certainty ofthe base case model after 30000trials
was 99.98% for NPV, 90.89% for IRR and 61.23% for production rate. This study
showed that petroleum • wastewater BFS scale-up design is feasible
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