For the second year in a row a member of the Carbon Capture Group from the University of Edinburgh won the Unisim Design Challenge Student Competition for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) organised by Honeywell.
The competition, one of three held at Honeywell’s regional customer conferences, seeks to recognize some of the most-talented engineering students around the world. It challenges the students to solve real-world problems facing industrial processing plants by using Honeywell’s UniSim Design process simulation and design software, which is used by manufacturers throughout the globe.
Dursun Can Ozcan, PhD student at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Engineering, won this year’s competition with the entry “Selection of an Appropriate Carbon Capture Technology for the Reduction of CO2 Emissions from a Cement Plant” and presented his showcase to nearly 1,000 attendees at the 2013 Honeywell Users Group (HUG) EMEA, 4th November, in Nice, France. His research is focused on reducing CO2 emissions in the cement industry and using the UniSim® Design Suite he simulated emissions from a cement plant and the impact of a number of processes including calcium looping and amine-scrubbing.
“Dursun Can has done some very impressive work addressing this challenge, and enhancing the value of process simulation as an enabler to reduce CO2 emissions at forward-thinking facilities” Vimal Kapur, vice president and general manager of Honeywell Process Solutions’ Advanced Solutions business, said.
Congratulations to Dursun and his supervisors Professor Stefano Brandani and Dr. Hyungwoong Ahn for this new success.
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