2. Dear Sir, We are students of the Chemical Industries Design course, which is part of the curricula of the Chemical Engineering graduation at Instituto Superior T閏nico, the largest portuguese engineering faculty. This course covers several issues of new plant design, including market study, selection of manufacturing technology, mass and heat balances, equipment sizing and specification and feasibility evaluation. Our work in this course consists of a project of a new plant, covering all the above-mentioned areas, and is usually carried out by groups of 3-4 students. As you may understand, we usually face great difficulties in obtaining detailed technical information about the manufacturing processes commercially available, besides what can be found in specialised literature sources like Kirk and Othmer or Mcketta. We are working on a project for a beta-pinene plant; we want to obtain beta-pinene from alpha-pinene. This is the reason why we are contacting your company, since that as a manufacturer of beta-pinene, we would like to ask if you could make available to us some information (not confidential) about your technology. But only if you make beta-pinene from alpha-pinene. The type of data that would be more useful includes plant flowsheets or simplified P&I's, main operational conditions, specific consumptions of raw materials and utilities and raw materials and final products specifications. If you are familiar with Stanford Research Institute reports such as CEH (Chemical Economics Handbook) or PEP (Process Economics Program), which unfortunately are not made available to universities even for academic purposes, these are good examples of the type of information we are looking for. We would like to assure you that any data received from you will only be used for academic purposes and will be treated as confidential. Should you consider it necessary, our school would be available to sign a confidentiality agreement with your company. We will be most grateful by any cooperation you can give us on the above-mentioned subjects. Looking forward to hear from you, we remain, Yours faithfully, Filipa Santos *域名隐藏* a@ *域名隐藏*
------------------ ...
|