July 25, 2022

Seniors in the Department of Biomedical, Biological and Chemical Engineering conclude their coursework with a semester-long capstone project. Through these capstones, students apply their classroom learning to develop prototypes to solve real-world issues.

This past semester, chemical engineering students were asked to design a modular system which could be positioned at the wellhead and would be capable of converting stranded natural gas into a liquid material, per the 2021-22 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Student Design Competition Problem Statement.

Below are the BBCE capstone projects from the Spring 2022 semester.

Chemical Capstone Team 1
Project: Modular Distributed Gas-to-Liquid (GTL) Process
Team Members: Ryan Payne, Grant Hoffer, Noah Duckworth, David Stroman
Objective: Develop three deployable modular units capable of converting 500, 2,500 and 5,000 MSCF of natural gas per day to liquid materials.

Chemical Capstone Team 2
Project: Modular Distributed Gas-to-Liquid (GTL) Process
Team Members: Trent Adelmann, Brielle Baucom, Camila Leiva, Lila Witte
Objective: Develop a modular system that utilizes Fischer-Tropsch Liquid (FTL) technology to convert natural gas to liquid hydrocarbon fuels at the site of the wellhead.