[Topic 1] Intro And Project Development Flashcards
This includes all engineering aspects involved in the development of either a new, modified, or expanded industrial plant.
Plant Design
A role of chemical engineer where he/she designs individual pieces of equipment or develops a plant layout.
Design Engineer
A role of chemical engineer where he/she specializes in the economic aspects of the design.
Cost Engineer
5 Ms of Concept Development in a plant design that will lead to success.
Materials
Market
Management
Methods of Execution
Money
Why research outputs like plant design are shelved?
Because many researchers lack plans and vision of mass production and creation of large-scale opportunities.
Simplified stages of process development in plant design.
- Inception - Design Objectives
- Setting the Design Basis
- Generation of Possible Designs
- Project Development
- Economic Evaluation, Optimization, and Selection
- Detailed Design and Equipment Selection
- Procurement, Construction, and Operation
What happens in Process Section?
- Process evaluation
- Flowsheeting
- Equipment specifications
What are involved in specialist design sections?
- Vessels
- Control and instruments
- Compressors and turbines pumps
- Layout
- Civil work structures buildings
- Utilities
- Piping Valves
- Electrical
- Heat exchangers and fire heaters
Two types of management framework
- Waterfall Design Framework
- Agile/Iterative Design Framework
Process of Waterfall Design framework
- Detailed Requirements
- Design and analysis
- Implementation
- QA/Evaluation
- Deployment with presence of risk
- Value
Process of Agile/Iterative Design framework
- Project Start
- Iterations
- Project End
Each iteration comprises the following step cycle
1. Detailed requirements
2. Design & Analysis
3. Implementation and Developer Testing
4. QA/Acceptance testing
5. Deployment
6. Evaluation/Prioritization
It originated from sales department.
Inception
A result of a customer request.
Inception
To meet a competing product.
Inception
This involves the feasibility process and preliminary market surveys.
Design Basis for Preliminary Evaluation
What are included in the feasibility process during design basis for preliminary evaluation.
- Physical and chemical processes involved
- Economic aspects
An aspect in the design basis for preliminary evaluation that needs analysis of the market.
TAM SAM SOM
What is TAM SAM SOM?
Total Available Market
Serviceable Available Market
Serviceable Obtainable Market
It uses previous experience, research projects, and existing plant designs.
Generation of Possible Design Concept
Expansion of operations, equipment, addition/replacement or renovation of small area (ex. new dish machine).
Level I
Renovation of a significant portion of a facility (ex. renovation of serving area).
Level II
Complete renovation or new construction of a facility.
Level III
Development of business/project expansion.
Level IV
Professionals included in Level I of Design Concept.
Owner
Design Consultant
Equipment Dealer
Supplier’s Representative
Professionals included in Level II of Design Concept.
Owner
Design Consultant
Architect
Engineers
Interior Designer
General Contractor
Subcontractors
Equipment Dealer
Professionals included in Level III of Design Concept.
Owner
Design Consultant
Architect
Engineers
Interior Designer
General Contractor
Subcontractors
Equipment Dealer
Banker
Lawyer
Accountant
Realtor
Professionals included in Level IV of Design Concept.
Owner
Design Consultant
Architect
Engineers
Interior Designer
General Contractor
Subcontractors
Equipment Dealer
Banker
Lawyer
Accountant
Realtor
This took the longest duration in plant design in all levels.
Equipment Delivery
This includes laboratory-scale experiments or bench-scale like production of final product qualities from research procedures.
Process-research Phase
This includes pilot-plant, commercial-development plant, and computer simulations.
Development Phase
Small-scale replica of the full-scale plant.
Pilot Plant
Composed of available equipment and not meant to duplicate the exact setup in the full-scale plant.
Commercial-development plant
Fully operating industrial scale plant that meets the commercial requirements.
Full-scale Industrial Plant
This step/phase in plant design involves obtaining design data and process information. This information is used as basis for next phases.
Project Development
This phase involves the selection of the most ideal process design and includes optimization and evaluation.
Economic evaluation, optimization, and selection.
Typical designs in the detailed engineering design phase.
- Mechanical
- Piping
- Instrumentation and control
- Electrical
- Architectural
- Structural
Design details in the detailed engineering design phase.
- Controls
- Services
- Piping Layouts
- Firm price quotations
- Specifications
- Individual equipment design
Complete construction design in the detailed engineering design phase.
- Elevation drawings
- Plant-layout arrangements
- Other pertinent data for actual plant construction
What are included in the Final phase of plant design?
- Procurement
- Construction
- Startup and trial runs
- Production
Essential reminders in plant design.
- More time, effort, and expenditure is required as we go deeper into other phases.
- If no tangible return can be realized, the proposal will be turned down.
Role of engineer in plant design.
- Be realistic and practical
- Eliminate unprofitable ventures before reaching the final proposal stage
What happens in Procurement Section?
- Estimating
- Inspection
- Scheduling
What happens in construction section?
- Construction
- Startup
He/she manage the overall operation in a plant.
Plant Manager
