An Applied Guide to Process and Plant Design / Seán Moran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moran, Sean, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Factories--Design and construction.

Factories.

Production engineering.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Kidlington, Oxford, UK ; Waltham, MA : Butterworth-Heinemann, [2015]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

An Applied Guide to Process and Plant Design is a guide to process plant design for both students and professional engineers. The book covers plant layout and the use of spreadsheet programmes and key drawings produced by professional engineers as aids to design; subjects which are usually learned on the job rather than in education. You will learn how to produce smarter plant design through the use of computer tools, including Excel and AutoCAD, "What If Analysis", statistical tools, and Visual Basic for more complex problems. The book also includes a wealth of selection tables, covering the key aspects of professional plant design which engineering students and early-career engineers tend to find most challenging. Professor Moran draws on over 20 years' experience in process design to create an essential foundational book ideal for those who are new to process design, compliant with both professional practice and the IChemE degree accreditation guidelines.

Contents:

Part 1 Practical Principles

Introduction 3

1 Process Plant Design 5

Introduction 5

What is engineering? 5

What is design? 6

Engineering design 7

Project life cycle 8

Process plant design 9

Process plant versus process design 11

Academic versus professional practice 13

State of the art and best engineering practice 18

The use and abuse of computers 19

Further reading 20

2 Stages of Process Plant Design 21

General 21

Conceptual design 21

"Conceptual design of chemical processes" 23

Front End Engineering Design (FEEDJ/basic design 25

Detailed design 26

Site redesign 27

Posthandover redesign 28

Unstaged design 29

Product engineering 29

Fast-tracking 30

Further reading 33

3 Process Plant Design Deliverables 35

Overview 35

Design basis and philosophies 35

Specification 36

Process Flow Diagram (PFD) 37

Piping and instrumentation diagram 38

Functional Design Specification (FDS) 40

Plot plan/general arrangement/layout drawing 40

Program 42

Cost estimate 42

Equipment list/schedule 45

Datasheets 46

Safety documentation 47

Design calculations 48

Isometric piping drawings 51

Simulator output 52

Further reading 52

4 Twenty-First Century Process Plant Design Tools 53

General 53

Use of computers by chemical engineers 54

Implications of modern design tools 54

Categories of design 56

Tools-Hardware 57

Tools-Software 59

Further reading 68

5 The Future of Process Plant Design 69

Process porn 69

Will first principles design replace heuristic design in future? 71

Will process design become a form of applied mathematics in future? 72

Will primary research become the basis of engineering design in future? 72

Will "chemical process design" replace process plant design in future? 72

Will network analysis form the core of design practice in future? 73

Will process simulation replace the design process in future? 73

Will process plant design never change? 74

Further reading 75

Part 2 Professional Practice

6 System Level Design 79

Introduction 79

How to put unit operations together 79

Matching design rigor with stage of design 80

Implications for cost 81

Implications for safety 82

Implications for robustness 82

Rule of thumb design 83

First principles design 83

Design by simulation program 84

Sources of design data 84

Further reading 87

7 Professional Design Methodology 89

Introduction 89

Design methodologies 90

The "is" and "ought" of process design 91

Right versus wrong design 92

Interesting versus boring design 92

Continuous versus batch design 94

Simple/robust versus complicated/fragile design 98

Setting the design envelope 100

Implications of new design tools 102

Importance of understanding your design 103

Manager/engineer tensions in design 103

Whole-system design methodology 105

Design stages in a nutshell 106

Variations on a theme 107

Further reading 107

8 How to Do a Mass and Energy Balance 109

Introduction 109

Handling recycles 111

How to set it out in Excel 112

Using Excel for iterative calculations: "Goal Seek" and "Solver" 113

9 How to Do Hydraulic Calculations 115

Introduction 115

Matching design rigor with stage of design 115

Hydraulic networks 121

Pump curves 122

Further reading 126

Part 3 Low Level Design

10 How to Design and Select Plant Components and Materials 129

Introduction 129

What process engineers design 129

Matching design rigor with stage of design 130

Materials of construction 131

Mechanical equipment 138

Electrical and control equipment 145

Further reading 151

11 How to Design Unit Operations 153

Introduction 153

Matching design rigor with stage of design 153

Rule of thumb design 153

Approaches to design of unit operations 154

Sources of design data 156

Scale-up and scale-out 156

Neglected unit operations: separation processes 157

Further reading 161

12 How to Cost a Design 163

Introduction 163

Matching design rigor with stage of design 163

The basics 164

Academic costing practice 165

Professional costing practice 167

Further reading 171

Part 4 High Level Design

13 How to Design a Process Control System 175

Introduction 175

Matching design rigor with stage of design 176

Operation and Maintenance manuals 176

Specification of operators 177

Automatic control 177

Standard control and instrumentation strategies 180

Further reading 199

14 How to Lay Out a Process Plant 201

Introduction 201

General principles 202

Factors affecting layout 204

Plant layout and safety 208

Plant layout and cost 209

Plant layout and aesthetics 210

Matching design rigor with stage of design 212

Further reading 216

15 How to Make Sure Your Design Is Reasonably Safe and Sustainable 217

Introduction 217

Why only reasonably? 217

Matching design rigor with stage of design 218

Conceptual design stage 219

Detailed design stage 221

Formal methods: safety 222

Formal methods: sustainability 229

Specification of equipment with safety implications in mind 230

Specification of safety devices 235

Types of safety device 235

Further reading 245

Sources 245

Part 5 Advanced Design

16 Professional Practice 249

Introduction 249

General design methodology 249

Informal design reviews 250

Formal design reviews 251

Quality assurance and document control 252

Informal data exchange 253

Further reading 254

17 Beginner's Errors to Avoid 255

Introduction 255

Lack of equipment knowledge 259

Lack of knowledge of many types of unit operations 261

Lack of knowledge of many materials of construction 262

Lack of utilities 262

Layout 262

Process control 263

Further reading 264

18 Design Optimization 265

Introduction 265

Matching design rigor with stage of design 265

Indicators of a need to integrate design 267

How to integrate design 268

When and how not to integrate design 274

Where's the harm? The downside of academic "process integration" 274

Further reading 275

19 Developing Your Own Design Style 277

Introduction 277

The art of engineering 277

The philosophy of engineering 278

The literature of engineering 279

The practice of engineering 279

Personal Sota 280

Further reading 282.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed Oct. 31, 2016).

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780128003824

0128003820

OCLC:

906575069

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