
Process Plant Layout
Description
Key Features
- Based on interviews with over 200 professional process plant designers
- Explains multiple plant layout methodologies used by professional process engineers, piping engineers, and process architects
- Includes advice on how to choose and use the latest CAD tools for plant layout
- Ensures that all methodologies integrate to comply with worldwide risk management legislation
Readership
Table of Contents
Part I. GENERAL PRINCIPLES
1 Introduction
2 Layout in context
3 Site layout principles
4 Plot layout principles
5 Planning of layout activities
6 Methods for layout, conception and development
7 Layout analogues and visual aids
8 Hazard assessment of plant layout
Part II. DETAILED SITE AND PLOT LAYOUT
9 Transportation
10 Bulk Fluid storage
11 Bulk solids storage
12 Warehouse storage
13 Pollution Control
14 Utilities I : General
15 Utilities II : Water and Steam
16 Central services
17 Construction and layout
18 Details of plot layout
19 Layout within buildings
Part III. DETAILED LAYOUT OF EQUIPMENT
20 Tanks and Drums
21 Furnaces and fired equipment
22 Distillation columns and towers
23 Heat exchangers
24 Reactors
25 Mixers
26 Filters
27 Centrifuges
28 Solids handling plant
29 Dryers
30 Filling and packaging
PART IV: Detailed Layout: Materials Transfer Systems
31 Pumps
32 Compressors
33 Conveyors
34 Piping
PART V: Detailed Layout: Other
35 Pipe Stress Analysis
36 Instrumentation
Part VI APPENDICES
A. CAD
B. Hazard assessment calculations
C. Typical data for preliminary layouts
D. Variants on the methodology
E. Masterplanning
F. Conversion factors for some common units
G. Consolidated Terminology / Glossary
H. Consolidated Standards and Codes of Practice
Product details
- No. of pages: 756
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Butterworth-Heinemann 2016
- Published: November 16, 2016
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128033555
- eBook ISBN: 9780128033562
About the Author
Sean Moran

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RafaelSequeira Mon Jul 23 2018
Very good reference book
Very good reference book