The PROCESS SYSTEMS ENGINEERING JOURNAL

THE RESULTS OF THE HDA COMPETITION BY POLITECNICO

The following chart shows the current balance of the financial accounts of 31 HDA plants by Politecnico di Milano.

I diavoletti di Maxwell6 740142 € P.K. Engineering20 740142 € G&L.M27 737738 €

D€G8 737592 €

Team110 735748 €

K8CREW7 734395 €

BrasMex15 734347 €

Team di Olcoroco28 733392 €

Team18 732103 €

Team DNA1 729000 €

FETA9 711906 €

triumvirate23 703351 €

BenzenEye3 691185 €

F&V Engineering11 689954 €

Team29 638192 €

Team21 604488 €

Tugas Inc14 601000 €

TeamPro19 590043 €

C&F Team16 479977 € E-Ace Ports17 479977 € Federiciani13 468957 €

T4square4 452287 €

Triskelis Team5 338216 €

medatech22 220259 €

TeamBR2 130255 €

lekei26 127590 €

Team25 106386 €

LC&VB12 106240 €

Team31 106172 €

Team24 105340 €

Argenspaña30 87578 €

The chart sums the financial performance at the end of the 15^th week of operation, and represents the final ranking of the HDA competition by Politecnico among teams of process engineers.

PSE-Lab - CMIC Department - Politecnico di Milano

FINANCE

Average weekly figures:

21/1-27/1 week

Crude oil¹ 84.70 (-34.0%) Benzene¹ 145.42 (-15.5%) Toluene¹ 149.49 (-23.5%) Propylene² 1001.97 (+4.6%) Diphenyl² 775.38 (+3.2%)

28/1-3/2 week Forecasts by OPEC:

Crude oil¹ 75.23 (-11.2%) Forecasts by our new expert:

Benzene¹ 150.61 (+3.6%) Toluene¹ 129.43 (-13.4%) Propylene² 1008.97 (+0.7%) Diphenyl² 786.22 (+1.4%) (1) EUR per bbl (159 L) (2) EUR per metric ton

The PROCESS SYSTEMS ENGINEERING JOURNAL

POLITECNICO DI MILANO ANNOUNCES THE RESULTS OF THE HDA COMPETITION

In collaboration with Politecnico di Milano, we publish the results of the competition among the 31 teams of process engineers hired by Politecnico.

The total balance of the 31 teams performed a +266% leap from 4.32 M€ at the end of the first week of operation (week 3), to 15.79 M€ at the end of the 15^th week of operation (week 17). The two teams performed an exceptional +421% leap.

Since two teams reached a tied first position, four teams will be celebrated with special awards:

1^st place

(tied) I diavoletti di Maxwell6 +2 pts.

P.K. Engineering20 +2 pts.

3^rd place G&L.M27 +1 pt.

4^th place D€G8 +1 pt.

The editorial team of the Journal is impressed by the incredible overall performance of the contracted teams, which successfully dealt with production issues, formal situations and new technologies such as the Autopilot.

N. X – January 28, 2019

SPONSORED CONTENT – Politecnico di Milano

To all the teams: thank you for your incredible performance and the excellent job you made while at Politecnico. Congratulations!

All the teams are invited to perform the Off-Boarding and take part in the final celebrations. The celebrations will mark the end of your contracted period at Politecnico, sum up the results and award the winner and other top- performing teams that took part in the competition.

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BREAKING NEWS A small firm called BWL1 Consulting declared bankruptcy last week.

Partners and investors fear it will be insolvent.

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