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An applied guide to process and plant design /

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 o...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moran, Seán (Chemical engineer) (Autor)
Otros Autores: Cruz, Maria Ines (Diseñador)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam [Netherlands] : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover; An Applied Guide to Process and Plant Design; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Practical Principles; Introduction; 1 Process Plant Design; Introduction; What is engineering?; What is design?; Engineering design; Project life cycle; Process plant design; Process plant versus process design; Variation and selection; Variation/creativity; Selection/analysis; Academic versus professional practice; Process plants versus castles in the air; What we design and what we do not; Standards and specifications; Design manuals; Rules of thumb; Approximations.
  • Professional judgmentState of the art and best engineering practice; The use and abuse of computers; Further Reading; 2 Stages of Process Plant Design; General; Conceptual design; "Conceptual design of chemical processes"; Modeling as "conceptual design"; Front End Engineering Design (FEED)/basic design; Detailed design; Site redesign; Posthandover redesign; Unstaged design; Product engineering; Fast-tracking; Conceptual/FEED fast-tracking; FEED/detailed design fast-tracking; Design/procurement fast-tracking; The fast-track to bad design; Further Reading; 3 Process Plant Design Deliverables.
  • OverviewDesign basis and philosophies; Specification; Process flow diagram (PFD); Piping and instrumentation diagram; Functional design specification (FDS); Plot plan/general arrangement/layout drawing; Program; Cost estimate; Academic approach; Professional budget pricing; Professional firm pricing; Equipment list/schedule; Datasheets; Safety documentation; HAZOP study; Zoning study/hazardous area classification; Design calculations; Isometric piping drawings; Simulator output; Further Reading; 4 Twenty-First Century Process Plant Design Tools; General; Use of computers by chemical engineers.
  • Implications of modern design toolsCategories of design; Unit operation sizing and selection; Hydraulic design; Mass balance; Energy balance; Tools-Hardware; Mobile devices; Handheld calculators; Graphical calculators; Tools-Software; Spreadsheets; MS Excel; Microsoft Visual Basic; Other numerical analysis software; MathWorks MATLAB; PTC Mathcad; Simulation programs; Aspentech Hysys, etc.; Invensys SimSci Pro/II; Chemstations CHEMCAD; COMSOL Multiphysics, etc.; Other; Project management/programming tools; Microsoft Project; Microsoft Excel; AMS Realtime; Oracle Primavera.
  • Computer-Aided Design (CAD): drawing/draftingAutodesk AutoCAD/Inventor, etc.; Bentley Systems Microstation; PTC Creo; Computer-Aided Design (CAD): process design; Bentley Systems Axsys. Process/PlantWise; Computer-Aided Design (CAD): hydraulic design; COMSOL Multiphysics; Matlab/Simulink; Autodesk® Simulation CFD; Other; Microsoft Visio; Microsoft Access; Further Reading; 5 The Future of Process Plant Design; Process porn; Will first principles design replace heuristic design in future?; Will process design become a form of applied mathematics in future?