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9.6.14 Evaluate Project and Build-up Maintenance Structure: Step 14 398
9.6.15 Other Types of Optimization 399
9.7 Pragmatic Approach to Operation Optimization 402
9.8 Appendix 406
10 The Efficient Design and Continuous Improvement of
High-quality Process Plants from an Organizational Perspective 406
10.1 Introduction 411
10.2 Continuous Improvement of a High-quality Plant 412
10.2.1 Process Capacity Performance 412
10.2.2 Process Reliability and Availability 413
10.2.3 Quality of Operation 414
10.2.4 Optimal Operation 415
10.2.5 Opportunities for Design Improvements 416
10.3 The Design of High-quality Plants 417
10.3.1 Work Processes 418
10.3.2 Quality Aspects of a Design: VIPs 424

11 An Overview: Design of Simple and Robust Process Plants 441
11.1 Design Philosophies 441
11.2 Ten Design Philosophies to Achieve a Simple
and Robust Process Plant 441
11.3 Process Synthesis and Design Optimization 442
11.4 Process Simplification and Intensification 443
11.4.1 Avoiding or Eliminating Functions 443
11.4.2 Combination of Functions 443
11.4.3 Intensification of Functions 443
11.4.4 Overall Process Simplification 443
11.4.5 Ranking Order for Design of Simple Units 444
11.5 Process Design Based on Reliability 444
11.6 Optimization of an Integrated Complex of
Process Plants and Evaluation of its Vulnerability 444
11.7 Instrumentation, Operation/Automation and Control 445
11.8 Operation Optimization 446
11.9 The Efficient Design and Continuous Improvement
of High-quality Process Plants 447

Authors Index 449

Subject Index 453