5. WHAT ARE THE FACTS
I am a chief chemical engineer
Due to the harsh economic times and
fierce competition from other petroleum
companies ,Mr.hoh has been asked to
come up with cost cutting measures.
My role is to find out if the new manger ,Mr.
hoh suggestion of transporting fuel in
gaseous state instead of liquid form and
also to exclude a chemical substances that
gives a special smell to the fuel is feasible.
6. LEARNING ISSUES
Is it more environmentally friendly transport
fuel in gaseous state instead of liquid form ?
how can you get rid of the smell?
What is the difference between natural gas
and petroleum?
Does it help us save cost?
Does it increase the capacity of the fuel if it is
transport in gaseous state instead of liquid form ?
7. LEARNING ISSUES
If the smell is remove does it affect the quality
Is it more convenient
Transporting in what form is better?
Will the sales of the company increase?
Are there more ways to save cost
9. Is it more environmentally friendly by
transporting fuel in gaseous state instead of
liquid form ?
:It is more environment friendly. It is largely
because of the fact that it has only one carbon
and hence, produces less emissions., thereby
improving the quality of air.
10. HOW ?
Would we be able to get rid of the smell?
:YES
o If yes. How can we get rid of the smell?
:we could remove the odorants added. which is
added to give it the smell.
11. If the smell is remove does it affect the quality?
:it will definitely affect the quality. Natural gas doesn’t have a smell.
What you smell is an odorant added by gas companies. Why do
they do this?
Natural gas has no colour or odour, so it’s extremely hard for you to
detect it. Adding an odorant solves the problem. Without the
odorant when a gas leak happened it would not be detected
easily .And a gas leak might cause death.
What can we do to make sure the quality of the fuel is not
affected?
:do trial and error to make test if the quality is affected if we would
to remove the smell.
12. We can choose to remove or not remove the
smell.
We should not remove the smell without knowing
the effect it will have.
The smell is to let people know the presence of
the fuel .this to ensure when a gas leak
happened people will be alerted.
13. What is the difference between natural gas and
petroleum?
:Petroleum have two states of matter and those
are
1. Gas(natural gas)
2. Liquid(petrol, diesel etc.)
14. 1)Can it help us save cost when changing from liquid state to gaseous state?
2)What are the ways to save cost?
Liquid gas.
1)YES
Since when changing from liquid state to gaseous state
requires heat energy. we could use a renewable source
of energy e.g. heat energy from the sun to change
petroleum from liquid state to gaseous state.
15. Does it increase the capacity of the fuel if it is
transport in gaseous state instead of liquid state ?
:yes
Transporting in what form is better? Liquid or gas
:it depends .
Will the form being transported affect its quality?
16. Explanation
Liquefied natural gas or LNG is natural gas that has been
converted to liquid form for ease of storage or transport.
Liquefied natural gas takes up about 1/600th the volume of
natural gas in the gaseous state. It is odorless, colorless, non-
toxic and non-corrosive. Hazards include flammability,
freezing and asphyxia
LNG achieves a higher reduction in volume than compressed
natural gas (CNG) so that the energy density of LNG is 2.4
times heavier than that of CNG or 60% of that of diesel
fuel.[1] This makes LNG cost efficient to transport over long
distances where pipelines do not exist. Specially designed
cryogenic sea vessels (LNG carriers) or cryogenic road
tankers are used for its transport.
17. Will the sales of the company increase?
What can we do to make sure the sales of the
company increase?
:advertise more before changing into gaseous
state and do a market survey before changing
into gaseous to see if the people could accept
the changes.
18. Conclusion
We can conclude that the
new manager suggestion is
feasible. And his suggestion
should be implemented
because there are more
pros than cons
20. Cons
We are unsure that the customers would like the
gaseous fuel hence we do not know if it is
profitable.
When the odorants have been removed and if a
gas leak happened ,we may not be able to detect
it which maybe dangerous.
