Process Plant Design

Thorough treatment of process plant layout providing a systematic approach to the synthesis of control systems for overall processes

Process Plant Design is a practical guide to chemical engineering process plant design, particularly in relation to design projects, giving an up-to-date approach to the structure of process design projects as practiced industrially and exploring the wider issues of process design in terms of the services (utilities) required to make a practical process design function.

The text allows chemical engineering students to gain an understanding of reliability, maintainability, and availability in relation to the subject, enabling them to specify with confidence the use of standby equipment, redundancy, reliability required of safety equipment, required availability to meet production targets, and the use of storage to achieve the required process availability.

To aid in reader comprehension, Process Plant Design features worked examples within the text and exercises at the end of some chapters with solutions available via supporting website.

Written by a renowned author with a proven track record in textbooks for chemical engineering students, Process Plant Design contains information on:

• Chemical process projects, development of process design concepts, heating and cooling utilities, and waste treatment systems
• Piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID) development, I.E. The most important document in the industrial practice of chemical engineering that must be developed for all design projects
• Flow rate and inventory control, degrees of freedom, control of process operations, and overall process control
• Piping and pressure relief, process operations, construction, mechanical design, site layout, and process layout

Process Plant Design is a highly valuable resource on the subject for final year undergraduate students, as well as practicing chemical engineers working in engineering, procurement, and construction. The text is also useful for industrial disciplines related to chemical engineering working in engineering, procurement, and construction of chemical processes.

Professor Robin Smith is Head of the Centre for Process Integration within the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science at the University of Manchester, UK. He is also Chief Executive Officer of Process Integration Limited, which provides software and consultancy to chemical, oil, gas, and petroleum industries. He has extensive industrial experience with Rohm & Haas in process investigation, production, and process design, as well as acting extensively as a consultant in process integration projects.