Honeywell announces Unisim Design Challenge winner at HUG 2013

Honeywell has announced that Mohd Shariq Khan, a student from Yeungnam University in South Korea, has won its annual Asia-Pacific student competition. Mohd will showcase his winning design to more than 200 attendees, including leaders in the process manufacturing industry and potential future employers, at the 2013 Honeywell Users Group (HUG) Asia-Pacific Symposium this week in Perth.

Mohd used Honeywell UniSim Design software to optimise the single mixed refrigerant natural gas liquefaction process. Typically, liquefaction accounts for 30% of the total energy used in natural gas processing. With Honeywell’s simulation technology, Mohd applied the Particle Swarm Paradigm algorithm to achieve energy savings of 10% when compared with the base case.

“For operators in the process manufacturing industry, small improvements in energy efficiency can lead to significant cost savings,” said Tony Cosgrove, vice president - Asia Pacific, Honeywell Process Solutions. “Mohd’s project demonstrates the value of process optimisation for industrial manufacturers and the importance of fresh thinking and innovation to solve business challenges.”

Honeywell’s UniSim Design Challenge is open to chemical engineering students in universities across Asia-Pacific. It challenges students to use Honeywell’s process simulation software, which is used by industrial manufacturers around the world, to design, optimise and test processes before they are implemented. It is also used to improve plant production and safety through offline operator training simulations.

Past Asia-Pacific winners have included Tuyen Dinh Quang from Hanoi University of Science and Technology in Vietnam and Rajab Khalilpour from the University of Sydney in Australia. This year, a record 103 universities were eligible to enter on behalf of students. Honeywell also holds annual student competitions as part of the HUG conferences in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and the Americas regions.

More information about HUG Asia-Pacific is available here.