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About the Book
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.
About the Author
I have been designing, troubleshooting and commissioning process plants since 1991. This is the area I write about.
I write the first draft of my books quickly, straight off the top of my head, based on my personal experience. I then have the draft reviewed in parts by large numbers of other practicing engineers to ensure that it is complete, current and correct.
I then review the reviews, and the sources they suggest, amend and add to the text and then start to bring the text together into a unified whole. Repeated review, rewriting, refining and proof reading takes up far more time than the initial writing stage.
My books are therefore based largely on my own experience and that of the hundreds of other practising engineers who contribute to and review the texts. They are intended to assist others with the process of making engineering education fit for purpose, and to show those wishing to become engineers what practicing engineers think engineering is really about.