Engineering Design Guidelines
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Kolmetz.Com, along with their key associates in their area of specialty, has developed Engineering
Design Guidelines to assist design engineers, operations and maintenance personnel in designing many of the equipment types in plant unit operations. Please review our design review committee.
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 - 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. Sample Calculation Spread Sheet - for the designed equipment example a calculation spread sheet will be provided - 1 spread sheet with multiple work sheets.
The introduction to each Engineering Design Guideline can be reviewed on the link below. Please contact us for ordering information.
Current Guidelines
Equipment Group
This group can be purchased for USD $295.00 each or a group of 5 for USD $495.00.
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.
4. Engineering Design Guideline for Instrumentation Selection and Sizing
5. Engineering Design Guidelines for Relief Valve Selection and Sizing
6. Engineering Design Guidelines for Pump Selection and Sizing
7. Engineering Design Guidelines for Flare Selection and Sizing.
8. Engineering Design Guidelines for Heat Exchanger Selection and Sizing.
9. Engineering Design Guidelines for Compressor Selection and Sizing.
10. Engineering Design Guidelines for a Typical Distillation Column Selection and Sizing
11. Engineering Design Guidelines for Tray Hydraulics
12. Engineering Design Guidelines for Packing Hydraulics
13. Engineering Design Guidelines For Furnaces
Specialty Applications Groups
This group can be purchased for USD $995 each or a group of 5 for USD $2495
14. Engineering Design Guidelines for a Refinery Crude Tower Selection and Sizing.
15. Engineering Design Guidelines for a Refinery Vacuum Tower Selection and Sizing.
16. Engineering Design Guidelines for an Ethylene Plant Quench Oil Tower Selection and Sizing.
17. Engineering Design Guidelines for an Ethylene Plant Quench Water Tower Selection and Sizing.
18. Engineering Design Guidelines for an Ethylene Plant C2 Splitter Selection and Sizing.
19. Engineering Design Guidelines for an Ethylene Plant C3 Splitter Selection and Sizing.
20. Engineering Design Guidelines for Refinery Furnaces
21. Engineering Design Guidelines for Olefin Furnaces
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