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Tips/Help/Advice for detailed studies - Check lists
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Tips/Help/Advice for detailed studies - Check lists

Tips/Help/Advice for detailed studies - Check lists

(OP)
Hi all,

I am a french junior process design engineer just finishing basic studies for a sulfur project (in an engineering company). It basically consisted in:

1/ Simulation --> basic stream data (fancy output: compo,...), stream table (copy fancy + calculations)
2/ PFD + material balance
3/ PID + line sizing + line list
4/ Equipment data sheets + equipment list
5/ Instruments data sheets
6/ Manuals (cause&effect, process control narratives, logic description, operating)
7/ Basic process package

Now, i will be involved in the detailed studies and, as a junior process engineer, i would like to know all the tasks to be performed by process engineers during detailed studies. Namely:

1/ PIDs checking (any check list to provide?)
2/ Data sheets
3/ Hydraulic checking
4/ Relief valves
...

Could you please complete this list. Also don't hesitate to be exhaustive.

P.S: i know that i can find general overviews in several text but i would like real world anecdots, advice and tips.

 

"We don't believe things because they are true, things are true because we believe them."
"Small people talk about others, average people talk about things, smart people talk about ideas and legends never talk."
 

RE: Tips/Help/Advice for detailed studies - Check lists

Process chemistry; reaction energy balances
Maximum intended inventory available on site
Safe operating limits for process parameters
Consequences of deviations; Cause and effect diagrams
Electrical Classification of the Equipment
Relief and Vent System Design And Design Basis
Building and Area Ventilation System Design
Design Codes And Standards used
Safety Systems (e.g., interlocks, detection, or suppression systems)
Piping specifications that define line classes that reflect temperature/pressure class, service, and material of construction.
Process Hazard Analysis

All taken from 29 CFR 1910.119+ PSM
 

RE: Tips/Help/Advice for detailed studies - Check lists

(OP)
Thanks dcasto,

What is 29 CFR 1910.119+ PSM?

"We don't believe things because they are true, things are true because we believe them."
"Small people talk about others, average people talk about things, smart people talk about ideas and legends never talk."
 

RE: Tips/Help/Advice for detailed studies - Check lists

In the US we have a performanced based series of safety rules that must be complied with under Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA.  The rules are found under 29 CFR 1910.119
http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=STANDARDS&;p_id=9760

Because the rules are performance based, there is broad catagories of things that must be looked at in detail.

here is another trade group that has some checklists:  http://www.gasprocessors.com/dept.asp?dept_id=1000

RE: Tips/Help/Advice for detailed studies - Check lists

I will recomend you to go throught these process norsok standards.
They will give you an idea, how to proceed further as a process engineer and what things need to be considered.
http://www.standard.no/imaker.exe?id=1512
 

RE: Tips/Help/Advice for detailed studies - Check lists

I am in the same case but with an GSU :
You will have to review all the documentation with more detail.
Cause and Effect charts
Utilities consumption calculation
Instruments list
Alarm and trip setting list
Potentially plot plan conception (with specialist engineer)
Potentially technical clarifications with suppliers

But it depends of the size of the project and of the number of specialist engineers (piping, instrumentation, civil work,...)

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