PANAS
Session 1st:
Process Design
Process design establishes the sequence of chemical and physical operations;
operating conditions; the duties, major specifications, and materials of construction
(where critical) of all process equipment (as distinguished from utilities and building
auxiliaries)
the general arrangement of equipment needed to ensure proper functioning of the
plant; line sizes; and principal instrumentation
The process design is summarized by a process flow sheet, a material and energy
balance, and a set of individual equipment specifications
Sometimes only a preliminary design and cost estimate are needed to evaluate the
advisability of further research on a new process or a proposed plant expansion or
detailed design work
A particularly valuable function of preliminary design is that it may reveal lack of
certain data needed for final design
Equipment
Two main categories of
designed
On large projects all these activities are correlated by a job engineer or project manager; on
individual items of equipment or the process engineer small projects, naturally assumes
this function
FLOWSHEETS
Example:
the coal carbonization process of Figure 2.1 starts with 100,000Ib/hr of coal and
some process air, involves six main process units, and makes the indicated
quantities of ten different products
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