Application of plant design system on the example of the ABE mixture separation

Process engineering design faces many challenges (BIM methodology or Industry 4.0). Paper presents the realization of the process installation project on the example of the separation of the acetone-benzene-ethanol mixture (ABE). The ABE mixture was separated in a processing system consisting of four distillation columns and a separator. The process simulation was performed in ChemCAD while the P&ID diagram, 3D installation model and 2D documentation were performed using the PDS software – Aveva Plant. It has been showing the data flow between process simulation software (process data) and the creation of final project documentation.