A Team of Undergraduate Students Won the Top Prize at the 2023 Chemical Engineering Process Design Competition
- Date2023.11.15
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Team FlameSTEM (The winner of the Top Prize, or Samsung Engineering Prize): Jiwon Kim, Eunse Lee, Yunjeong Kim, and Hyokyeong Kim (from the left)
A team of undergraduate students at the Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Major, FlameSTEM (Jiwon Kim, Yunjeong Kim, Hyokyeong Kim, and Eunse Lee), won the Top Prize at the 2023 Chemical Engineering Process Design Competition. The competition was hosted by the Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers, and sponsored by AVEVA Korea, LG Chem, SK Energy, Samsung Engineering, and Hanwha TotalEnergies Petrochemical. The contest began in 2012, intending to discover well-versed engineers in the plant engineering and process industry by offering an opportunity for students to design and operate chemical engineering processes and spotting students with creative ideas and capacity for chemical engineering process design.
This year, around 100 teams of college students studying chemical engineering joined the fierce three-month-long competition. The participants have designed green hydrogen and blue hydrogen production plants since July. (Green hydrogen is produced by solar energy, and blue hydrogen by steam reforming natural gasses.) FlameSTEM’s winning of the top prize (Samsung Engineering Prize - KRW three million) marks the strength of Ewha Womans University in the chemical engineering field. The teams of Ewha students have swept the Top Prize from 2019 to 2023, five years in a row.
“We could inspect the general viability of the processes we designed by evaluating the profitability and environmental impact of each case, and the sense of achievement was inexpressible when we finished the design of green and blue hydrogen production plants. We could make it by using what we learned at school, such as chemical reaction engineering and chemical process design, and connecting the separate processes as a whole after continuous discussion,” said FlameSTEM, the winner of the Top Prize at the 2023 Chemical Engineering Process Design Competition. “We never gave up and counted on each other in the difficult moments. It feels like this prize is a reward for such a time. We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to Professor Jonggeol Na for offering insightful feedback and advice,” the team added.