Process Plant Layout - Softcover

Moran, Sean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 012803355X ISBN 13: 9780128033555

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2016

Synopsis

Process Plant Layout, Second Edition, explains the methodologies used by professional designers to layout process equipment and pipework, plots, plants, sites, and their corresponding environmental features in a safe, economical way. It is supported with tables of separation distances, rules of thumb, and codes of practice and standards.

The book includes more than seventy-five case studies on what can go wrong when layout is not properly considered. Sean Moran has thoroughly rewritten and re-illustrated this book to reflect advances in technology and best practices, for example, changes in how designers balance layout density with cost, operability, and safety considerations.

The content covers the ‘why’ underlying process design company guidelines, providing a firm foundation for career growth for process design engineers. It is ideal for process plant designers in contracting, consultancy, and for operating companies at all stages of their careers, and is also of importance for operations and maintenance staff involved with a new build, guiding them through plot plan reviews.

• 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

About this title

From the Back Cover

The 2nd edition of Process Plant Layout is a useful reference for anyone who is involved in plant design as it covers all aspects of plant layout in detail

• Based on interviews with over 200 professional process plant designers, this new edition 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

Mecklenburgh’s Process Plant Layout, 2nd Edition is an in depth guide which begins with general fundamentals and then becomes progressively more detailed; the same progression followed by process designs. It explains the methodologies used by professional layout designers to lay out process equipment and pipework, plots, plants and sites relative to each other and environmental features in a safe, economical way. It is supported with tables of separation distances, rules of thumb, codes of practice and standards. It includes more than seventy five case studies of what can go wrong when layout is not properly considered.

Sean Moran has thoroughly re-written and re-illustrated this book to reflect advances in technology and best practice, for example changes in how designers balance layout density with cost, operability and safety considerations. The content covers the ‘why’ underlying process design company guidelines, and understanding this will provide a firm foundation for career growth for process design engineers.

Process plant designers in contracting, consultancy, and operating companies at all stages of their careers will benefit from this resource. The work is also of importance for operations and maintenance staff involved with a new build, to guide them through the plot plan reviews. Project engineers, plant and project managers will also find the work of great interest, as well as students and graduates due to its style and accessibility.

About the Author

Professor Moran is a chemical engineer, chartered engineer, chartered waste and environment manager with twenty-five years’ experience in process design, commissioning and troubleshooting. He started his career with international process engineering contractors and worked worldwide on water treatment projects before setting up his own consultancy in 1996, specializing in process and hydraulic design, commissioning and troubleshooting of industrial effluent and water treatment plants. Sean was until 2015 an Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham, where he coordinated the design teaching program for chemical engineering students. He has now returned to engineering practice, specializing in forensic engineering in commercial disputes centering on plant design issues.

Edition details

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 012803355X
• ISBN 13: 9780128033555
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 756