The purpose of this research was to modify the present plant layout of canned fish. The alternative plant layout of canned fish in term of material flow, activity relationship the optimum process areas and locations has been designed by systematic layout planning (SLP) method. Factors studied in canned fish factory were consisted of numbers of machines, space requirements, and process area. The problem in term of material flow of each operation section was indentified. With the SLP method, alternative plant layout significantly decreased the distance of material flow.

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Abstract. The oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) in a dense BSCFO membrane reactor (MR) was theoretically studied using a two-dimensional reactor model. The simulation results indicated that increasing the operating temperature results in increased CH4 conversion and decreased C2 selectivity. An increase in the methane feed flow rate lowers the CH4 conversion but increases the C2 selectivity; however, the effect of the air flow rate on the OCM membrane reactor exhibits an opposite trend. The optimum configuration of the dense BSCFO-MR to provide the best performance was 0.018 m in diameter and 0.2 m. in length at a GHSV of 19452.37 h -1 and temperature of 1073 K. Under these optimal conditions, the CH4 conversion is 43.713 %, the C2 selectivity is 61.352 % and the C2 yield is 26.82 %.

In this study, the application of a systematic plant layout planning (SLP) to assist the optimum design of process areas and locations is proposed. The number of machines and space requirement in pulley factory is determined. The operation process chart, flow of material and activity relationship chart have been investigated. The relationships between machines, operation sections and material flow are used to determine the suitable position of each activity. The SLP method has been employed to design the two alternative plant layouts and compare the performances between new layout and present layout in term of material flow. The new plant layout is modified by moving a disassembly and surface finish that significantly decrease the distance of material flow, so it is effective increasing production.