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Process Plant Layout
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
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
702 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 16, 2016
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March 13, 2017
Sean Moran outlines a comprehensive review of good plant layout design principles, based on his own vast professional experience as a practicing engineer. This book lays out fundamental considerations as well as delving into detailed practical methods and rules of thumb to adhere to when setting out how a plant should be transformed from a drawing to construction. The core pillars of design –safety, cost & robustness- are kept within the heart of this book, to ensure all relevant considerations are met when delivering an efficient layout design.
After the first “General Principles” section, the book explores specific areas of plant layout in more detail, for example: consideration into utilities, hazard assessment & equipment layout. As a process & logistics engineer, I look at people and material flows through a plant and therefore found the “Warehouse Storage” chapter particularly interesting. This chapter provided familiar and accurate or new and useful guidelines for warehouse layout design, which I will definitely refer to in future warehouse layout projects.
I highly recommend this book to engineers who are concerned with plant layout, whether they are at the start or end of their career, or even studying. This book can be used as an encyclopaedic reference as it does not necessarily need to be read back-to-back, but instead areas of interest can be pinpointed. In summary, it was a very good and insightful read, providing relevant information which I will be able to use in future layout designs.
After the first “General Principles” section, the book explores specific areas of plant layout in more detail, for example: consideration into utilities, hazard assessment & equipment layout. As a process & logistics engineer, I look at people and material flows through a plant and therefore found the “Warehouse Storage” chapter particularly interesting. This chapter provided familiar and accurate or new and useful guidelines for warehouse layout design, which I will definitely refer to in future warehouse layout projects.
I highly recommend this book to engineers who are concerned with plant layout, whether they are at the start or end of their career, or even studying. This book can be used as an encyclopaedic reference as it does not necessarily need to be read back-to-back, but instead areas of interest can be pinpointed. In summary, it was a very good and insightful read, providing relevant information which I will be able to use in future layout designs.
December 14, 2016
This is my attempt at a comprehensive handbook and encyclopaedia of plant layout. Two man years of work went into updating and revising Mecklenbergh's classic text, assisted by over two hundred other professional engineers. In my (perhaps not so humble) opinion, this is the finest book on the subject as of now, bar none.
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