| dc.description.abstract | This methyl chloride from methanol and hydrochloride acid plant is designed with 40,000 tons product capacities/ year, and the purity of methyl chloride in the product is about 99,50 %. This plant will operate 330 days a year. It will need methanol as raw material 28.072 tons/year and hydrochloride acid 79.673 tons/year. And it will build in industrial zone in east Kalimantan, it will use about 5 hectar area and 135 total workers. The process could be devided into three major step, the first step is raw material preparation, vapourize methanol and hydrocloride and make these vopours suitable as reactor feed at 623 K and 1.30 atm. The next step is chemical reaction between methanol and hydrochloride acid vapour over alumina gel catalist with 95 % of methanol is converted to methyl choride. The last step is purifying the product with about 99.50 % methyl choride purified in the product. This plant will need water about 20,000 kg water/h, fuel oil about 705 kg/h, plant and pressure control air 27.820 kg/h, and total electricity 500 kW. The plant will need total fixed capital investment Rp 244,000,000,000.-, and working capital Rp 247.015.895.850,-. This plant can be specified as a low risk factory, from the economic evaluation we know that the net profit after taxes about Rp 52,881,711,763.-/ year, with Rate of Return on Investment (ROI) before taxes is 43,38 % and after taxes is 21.69 % , Pay out Time (POT) before taxes 1,87 years and after taxes 3.16 years, Break Event Point (BEP) 44,678 % design capacity, Shut Down Point (SDP) 25,923 % design capacity, and Discounted Cash Flow ( DCF) 32,52%. Base on these results we can see that this methyl choride from methanol and hydrochloride acid plant with 40,000 tons product capacities/year is interesting. | en_US |
