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Creating Standards for First of a Kind and Unique Modular Process Plants
Author(s) -
Bottenberg Herman
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
chemie ingenieur technik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1522-2640
pISSN - 0009-286X
DOI - 10.1002/cite.201500007
Subject(s) - modular design , process (computing) , sizing , process plant , scale (ratio) , process engineering , engineering , manufacturing engineering , biochemical engineering , computer science , chemistry , organic chemistry , operating system , physics , quantum mechanics
Modular plants offer the opportunity to save time and reduce development costs for market introduction of new products and processes. When designing process plants, sizing of equipment, process lines and the overall plant is determined by the process. Taking into account scale‐up factors which vary per process and type of industry most plants will have their own scale to be built at. Based on this vast variety in size and type of projects, it may be concluded that a standard module size that matches the process requirements in most cases is hard to determine. In this article an overview will be presented of different modular plant cases and the basis for standardizing these modular plants.