First-place finish for Lakehead U engineering students.

Chemical engineering students from Lakehead University finished first in the SNC-Lavalin Undergraduate Plant Design competition held in Calgary in October.

It's the university's second consecutive first-place finish.

The team of Ryan Gerlach, Christopher Lock, Kayte Sutherland, Terry Milton, and Natasha Bieniek designed a financially viable plant that can address contemporary environmental problems by directing waste plastics away from landfills.

The students designed a chemical plant that could convert 200,000 tonnes of waste plastic per year into high value hydrocarbons, including gasoline and kerosene. The plant could potentially provide improved waste management in every city around the world, said a Nov. 2 university press release.

Students participated in the competition as part of their final degree project.

This competition is hosted by the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering (CSChE). A panel of judges from industry, government, and academia evaluate all the entries.

In the first round, the judges...

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