Overall process system design

This chapter provides detailed design principles and calculation procedures for all types of vessels, and selection, sizing, and design criteria for piping system components. It concentrates on specific design practices, computational methods, and working formulas.. It emphasizes on process system peripherals, particularly vessels and their associated components. It provides a fundamental definitions and a brief review of preparing process flow plans. There are numerous stages of activities that must be conducted before an actual process, plant or even small-scale pilot system reaches its operational stage. At the completion of the unit or system construction, a prestartup review is conducted by the designer and his support personnel. This should include a review of all operating as well as emergency and shutdown procedures. The prestartup review normally involves the following personnel in addition to the designer: project engineer, trained operating personnel, operations foreman, the company environmental engineer, the division and company safety engineers, and representatives from management.