Process Flowsheeting

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Process flowsheeting is the use of computer aids to perform steady-state heat and mass balancing, sizing and costing calculations for a chemical process. The process design effort may be split into three basic steps synthesis analysis and optimization. Synthesis is the step where the structure of the flowsheet is chosen. It is also in this step that one initializes values for variables which one is free to set. Analysis is usually made up of three steps, solving heat and material balances, sizing and costing the equipment and, evaluating the economic worth, safety, operability etc. of the chosen flow sheet.... Mehr