Process Plant Layout, 2nd Edition

Chapter 1

Introduction

Abstract

This is an encyclopedia and handbook of professional plant layout practice, based in codes or practice, standards, and interviews with professional layout designers from a number of disciplines. The three disciplines that tend to lead layout design have different approaches and terminology, so I set out in this chapter a base case in order to discuss variations on a theme.

Keywords

Plant layout; general methodology; terminology; piping engineer; process engineer; process architect

1.1 What Kind of a Book Is This?

This book is, in essence, an encyclopedia and handbook of practical process plant layout practice. Its first edition, published in 1985, was written by a small committee, mostly of senior practitioners, ...