Plant Design (CEE4209)

An Introduction

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Course Content
 Sources of design data.
 Process charts and flowsheets.
 Equipment selection, specification and design.
 Mechanical design of process vessels and piping.
 Environmental considerations.
 Site considerations.
 Process services.

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Course Objective

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Course Objective

1 Roles of chemical/process engineers in CPI/HPI

2 Difference between design and simulation

3 Basic understanding of objective of design

4 Basic understanding of design process, lifecycle, stages and deliverables

5 Basic understanding of design documents (Design Basis, PFD, P&ID, GA)

6 Basic understanding of codes & calculations involved in process design

7 Costing
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3 Basic understanding of objective of design

Learning Outcome
By the end of this section, student should be able

 Discuss what Engineering Design means

 Explain the objective of process plant design
 Discuss the outline of chemical process plant

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 Engineering Design & Constraint

Design
 The conversion of an ill-defined requirement into a satisfied customer Chaddock (1975)
 Creative act of putting together of ideas to achieve a desired purpose
 It starts with a specific objective in mind, a need, and by developing and evaluating
possible designs, the designer arrives at what she/he considers the best way of achieving
that objective

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 Objective and method for process plant design

Why and How do chemical/process engineers embark on design

Process Engineers
 Design process plants to produces the desired product reliably, safely and cost-effectively
and meets the specified composition and quantity. (Why?)

 Ensure that the plant generate profit for both the owner and the designer

 Only needs to understand complex process plants well enough to have a high degree of
certainty that it meets its specification reliably. (How?)

 Design process plants majorly using heuristics, engineering judgement, standards and codes

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 Outline of chemical process plants

Product within
Feedstock Purification/ Specification
Pretreatment Reaction
Separation

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 Project Lifecycle

Modify business
Define the Generate Review the case and
Generate the Based on FEED
problem in options that options against Commence Commence
conceptual Studies, reduce
Identify the business, provide predetermined Front-End detailed design
process design the number of
problem engineering, potential selection criteria Engineering
for the selected options
and science solutions to the and eliminate Design (FEED)
options
terms problem unfavorable studies

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 Project Lifecycle

Based on Carry out the

detailed design, “design for Construct Qualify/
Commission Operate & Decommission
select the construction” required Commission
process plant Optimize plant
option to be of the lead infrastructure Equipment
built option

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 Objective and method for process plant design

Why and How do chemical/process engineers embark on design

Process Engineers
 Design process plants to produces the desired product reliably, safely and cost-effectively
and meets the specified composition and quantity. (Why?)

 Ensure that the plant generate profit for both the owner and the designer

 Only needs to understand complex process plants well enough to have a high degree of
certainty that it meets its specification reliably. (How?)

 Design process plants majorly using heuristics, engineering judgement, standards and codes

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