Engineers Haya A. AlYaqoub, Hind N. AlMutairy, Farah H. AlSarraf, and Showq N. Buhadi from the Chemical Engineering Department- College of Engineering and Petroleum at Kuwait University developed a project under the title “Production of Propylene from LPG” under the supervision of Dr. Sami Ali and Engineer Hala AlFulaij. The project was part of the Engineering and Petroleum projects of the 32nd Engineering Design Exhibition.

On the idea of the project, Engineer Haya AlYaqoub said that the project is the production of propylene, which is one of the most important raw materials in the petrochemical industries.
Eng. Hind AlMutairy added that liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is used as a "cooking gas" for the production of propylene. Propylene is used in the manufacture of many materials, the most important is plastic. The project aims to produce 200,000 tons/ year.
Eng. Farah Al-Sarraf pointed out that the aim of the project is to design a factory for the production of propylene by removing the hydrogen from the LPG which consists of 80% propane, 18% of butane and 2% bintan with the use of catalyst Pt-SN / Al2O3, and this substance is used because of selectivity. The total conversion was 99% with 99.5% purity of propylene. The most important equipment in our design is furnace reactor and distillation columns.
Eng. Showq Buhadi stated that the project will have a good investment after the 7-year repayment period at a 10% interest rate and an investment return of 8.77%, which means that the factory has a low level of risk.
The students thanked all those who contributed to the success of the project under the supervision of Dr. Sami Ali and Eng. Hala AlFulaij. They also thanked all sponsors, including Kuwait Finance House, Gulf Cable and Real Estate Company, AlYousifi and Fureej Sweileh.