An Expedient Approach Towards Statistical Analysis of Formalin Business Policy Using Design of Experiment in a Petrocomplex Plant in India

Abstract

\n Due to civilization, solvent-based paints are abundantly used for painting. Typical solvents include raw Methanol, Ethanol, cellosolve, Amylacetate, and Xylene. After painting, these huge raw solvents are emitted into the atmosphere, which continuously pollutes our environment. Global environment consciousness induced scientists to use aqua-based paints as it never emits harmful material in the atmosphere. Formaldehyde is one of the major components used to produce aqua-based thermosetting resin adhesives, used worldwide in the paints and panel industries. Perceiving the current state of formaldehyde production, development, applications in industrial sectors and demand in the trading industry, a new approach has been envisaged to revitalize the quality of formalin/formaldehyde in petrocomplex plants by the unique design of experiment model based on the collected data. The superiority of formalin depends on some primary constraints such as specific gravity, acid value and solid content of the product. The parameters which control the primary quality measuring constraints are methanol flow-rate, air-supply, and temperature during the reaction process. Based on these three inputs and three output parameters a statistical optimization analysis has been explored with the help of Box-Behnken design by exploring the robustness of soft computing tool (RSM) from an industrial engineering perspective with the overall desirability of 0.744.