Design of a sunscreen plant and the rheological study of the emulsion

Identifier:  PFC:126

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/PFC126

Authors:  Corbí García, Paula

Abstract:
SolarOz has designed a sunscreen production plant with a production of 500 tones/year, located at the outskirts of Adelaide, Australia. This plant produces three different products employing the batch system, in order to make the project financially feasible. The sunscreen elaboration process follows a receipt divided in 4 phases. The process involves an agitation tank working at different temperatures, 17 ºC and 60 ºC, according to the recipe specifications. Following the receipt, the components are being added and mixed during a concrete period of time, depending on the phase, until reaching homogeneity. This process takes 5.34 hours between loading, mixing and unloading. When the sunscreen is ready, it is sent to the bottling plant or the storage tank, which depends on the market demand. For the design of all the equipment involved in the process, the normatives and codes under the Australian legislation are used. The total plant investment rises up to 1.4 M AUD$, with an opportunity cost of 8%. The amortization period has been fixed in 10 years. As reported by the results of the profitability analysis, the invested capital will be recovered in 5 years.