I would appreciate some guidance from my colleagues: what are the main things that need to be determined and calculated in terms of the process for the next project?
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I would appreciate some guidance from my colleagues. For the next project, what are the main things that need to be determined and calculated in terms of process design? What calculations and decisions are necessary for determining pipe diameters, pipe fittings, equipment sizes, and process flow? Also, how should the requirements related to instrumentation be submitted to the instrumentation team? Thank you for your advice
1. Please first consult the definition of the tasks required for the process engineering field within the scope of your organization’s professional responsibilities. 2. What stage is the design of this project at: feasibility study? preliminary design? detailed design? overall design? 3. Both the petrochemical and refining industries have specific requirements regarding the depth of design work for various specialties. 4. To what extent has the design been developed? If the depth is low, more work needs to be done; if the depth is sufficient, less work is required.
At the very least, and most importantly, there is the mass and heat balance calculation; followed by the pipe diameter calculation and hydraulic calculations
For small projects, if the owner provides the technology (basic design or preliminary design), it seems that only the process flow needs to be specified, along with detailed engineering designs for equipment layout, piping layout, etc. This situation is particularly applicable to the batch processes of small-scale chemicals such as fine chemicals.
Depending on the progress level, there are different levels of depth. Please refer to the HG or SH specifications. For detailed information, see HG20519 as well as SH 033, SH052, and SH053. Such details can be found on forums.
This issue cannot be fully addressed in just one or two sentences; there are clear guidelines regarding this. Each design institute should also have a detailed division of responsibilities among its professionals. Simply put, the process engineering team plays a key role – after a design task is assigned to them, they carry out almost all the necessary calculations, ranging from overall material accounting and process design to details such as equipment data and selection； Pipeline flow rate, diameter, grade, material ； The selection of control instruments, their installation locations, and so on – the final determined data are provided to the downstream specialties for further design work.
What was said upstairs is very good; I’d like to add the following: those working on process design also need to consider the civil engineering layout diagrams as well as the equipment layout diagrams. There is a lot of work that the process engineering team has to carry out.
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