Engineering Design Guidelines
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Kolmetz.Com has developed Engineering
Design Guidelines and Project Engineering Standards to assist design engineers, operations and maintenance personnel in designing many of the equipment types in plant unit operations.
Engineering Design Guidelines are typically a collection of multiple industry references which need to be reviewed by an operations personnel or design engineer when designing or specifying a piece of equipment such as a control valve, relief valve or heat exchanger.
The references at times can almost seem to contradicted each other. There is a vast amount of engineering hours spent each year in reviewing these industry references and very often no good recommendation is developed from the reference review.
To help simplify this process, we have reviewed the industry references and have developed guidelines for engineers to do Preliminary Designs and Process Specification Sheets. The final design must always be guaranteed for the service selected by the manufacturing vendor, but these guidelines will greatly reduce the amount of up front engineering hours that are required to develop the final design. The guidelines are a training tool for young engineers or a resource for engineers with experience.
There are some very low cost guidelines and programs, sometimes even free, provided by the equipment vendors. Let the buyer beware, many times these guidelines and programs tend to pick their brand as the best choice - good for the vendor, maybe not so good for the buyer.
Each Engineering Design Guideline has six parts.
A. Introduction - an introduction which has an overview of each application - 2 to 6 pages.
B. Definitions - a list of definitions used in the industry and these guidelines - 1 to 2 pages.
C. Theory - the engineering fundamentals and principals that are used to design the particular piece of equipment - these are all developed from first principles - 5 to 20 pages.
D. Application - how the engineering fundamentals and principals are applied in the field, with an example of the design of the equipment - 5 to 20 pages.
E. Process Specification Sheet - for the designed equipment example a typical process data sheet is derived - 1 to 2 pages.
F. Design Sizing Calculation Software Excel Spread Sheet - for the designed equipment examples a calculation spread sheet will be provided - an excel file with multiple work sheets.
The introduction to each Engineering Design Guideline can be reviewed on the link below. Please contact us for ordering information and which guidelines are developed and available. My hope is that these guidelines can one day be published in a technical book.
Current Engineering Design Guidelines
Equipment Group
This group can be purchased for USD $399.95 each or a group of 5 for USD $1499.95.
1. Engineering Design Guidelines for Piping Fluid Flow Material Selection and Line Sizing
2. Engineering Design Guidelines for Fluid Flow Measurement Selection and Sizing
3. Engineering Design Guidelines for Control Valve Selection and Sizing
Control Valve Design Sizing Software Excel Spreadsheet Part 1 Part 2
Control Valve Speciation Sheet
4. Engineering Design Guideline for Instrumentation Selection and Sizing
5. Engineering Design Guidelines for Relief Valve Selection and Sizing
Relief Valve Design Sizing Software Excel Spreadsheet
6. Engineering Design Guidelines for Pump Selection and Sizing
Pump Design Sizing Excel Spreadsheet
7. Engineering Design Guidelines for Heat Exchanger Selection and Sizing
Heat Exchanger Design Sizing Software Excel Spreadsheet
Heat Exchanger Speciation Sheet
8. Engineering Design Guidelines for Compressor Selection and Sizing
Compressor Design Sizing Excel Spreadsheet
9. Engineering Design Guidelines for Separation Vessels Selection and Sizing
Separation Vessel Design Sizing Excel Spreadsheet
10. Engineering Design Guidelines for Distillation Column Selection and Sizing
11. Engineering Design Guidelines for Distillation Column Tray Hydraulics
Tray Hydraulics Design Sizing Excel Spreadsheet Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
12. Engineering Design Guidelines for Distillation Column Packing Hydraulics
Packing Hydraulics Design Sizing Excel Spreadsheet Part 1 Part 2
13. Engineering Design Guidelines for Cooling Towers Selection and Sizing
Cooling Tower Design Sizing Spreadsheet
14. Engineering Design Guidelines for Safety in Process Equipment Design
15. Engineering Design Guidelines for Safety in Overpressure Reliving Systems
16. Engineering Design Guidelines for Membrane Selection and Sizing
17. Engineering Design Guidelines for Static Mixer Selection and Sizing
18. Engineering Design Guidelines for Coalescer Selection and Sizing
Specialty Applications Groups
22. Engineering Design Guidelines For Furnaces
23. Engineering Design Guidelines for Flare Selection and Sizing.
Flare Design Sizing Excel Spreadsheet Part 1 Part 2
24. Engineering Design Guideline for Storage Tanks Selection and Sizing
25. Engineering Design Guidelines for a Refinery Crude Tower Selection and Sizing.
26. Engineering Design Guidelines for a Refinery Vacuum Tower Selection and Sizing.
27. Engineering Design Guidelines for an Ethylene Plant Quench Oil Tower Selection and Sizing.
28. Engineering Design Guidelines for an Ethylene Plant Quench Water Tower Selection and Sizing.
29. Engineering Design Guidelines for a Ethylene Splitter Distillation Tower Selection and Sizing.
30. Engineering Design Guidelines for an Propylene Splitter Distillation Tower Selection and Sizing.
31. Engineering Design Guidelines for Refinery Furnaces
32. Engineering Design Guidelines for Olefin Furnaces
33. Engineering Design Guidelines for Boilers
34. Engineering Design Guidelines for Gas Drying Systems
35. Engineering Design Guidelines for Gas Sweetening Systems
36. Engineering Design Guidelines for Reactor Systems
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