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Design of Simple and Robust Process Plants. J. L. Koolen VII
Copyright 2002 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA
ISBNs: 3-527-29784-7 (Hardback); 3-527-60047-7 (Electronic)

Contents

Foreword XIII

Preface XV

Acknowledgments XVII

1 Introduction 1
1.1 A New Evolutionary Step 1
1.2 The Process Plant of the 21st Century: Simple and Robust 5
1.3 Design Philosophies 8
1.3.1 Minimize Equipment and Piping 8
1.3.2 Design for Single Reliable and Robust Components Unless
Justified Economically or from a Safety Viewpoint 8
1.3.3 Optimize Design 9
1.3.4 Clever Process Integration 9
1.3.5 Minimize Human Intervention 9
1.3.6 Operation Optimization Makes Money 9
1.3.7 Just-in-time Production (JIP) 10
1.3.8 Design for Total Quality Control (TQC) 10
1.3.9 Inherently Safer Design 12
1.3.10 Environmentally sound design 13
1.4 Process Synthesis and Design Optimization 13
1.5 Process Simplification and Intensification Techniques 13
1.6 Design Based on Reliability 14
1.7 Optimization of a Complex, and Evaluation of its Vulnerability 15
1.8 Design of Instrumentation, Automation and Control 15
1.9 Operation Optimization 16
1.10 The Efficient Design and Operation of High-quality Process Plants 16
1.11 Overall Example of Process Design 17
1.12 Summary 20

2 Simple and Robust Plant Design 23
2.1 What is ªSimpleº? 23