An Applied Guide to Process and Plant Design

Appendix 5

Teaching Practical Process Plant Design

This appendix explains how and why I teach plant design in the way I do for the benefit of anyone who wishes to follow my approach. I also offer many of my design exercises to assist anyone who does not have ready access to real design problems. My approach is pragmatic, atheoretical, and firmly grounded in professional practice, but not uninformed by pedagogic literature. I have read the relevant literature, and I offer references for that which I consider most useful in a field which is mostly still arguing about whether rational investigation of its subject is even possible.

Keywords: Real; professional; practical; process design teaching

Introduction

I cannot claim to have perfected design teaching ...