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The document discusses Process Flow Diagrams (PFD) and Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID), highlighting their roles in representing chemical engineering processes. PFDs focus on major equipment and process interactions, while P&IDs detail piping and instrumentation for maintenance and design purposes. Both diagrams serve as essential tools for improving plant operations and ensuring safety and regulatory compliance.

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Lesson 2.1 - Process Flow Diagrams and PFID (Notebook)

The document discusses Process Flow Diagrams (PFD) and Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID), highlighting their roles in representing chemical engineering processes. PFDs focus on major equipment and process interactions, while P&IDs detail piping and instrumentation for maintenance and design purposes. Both diagrams serve as essential tools for improving plant operations and ensuring safety and regulatory compliance.

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Lesson 2.

Process Flow Diagrams And Piping & Instrumentation Diagram

2.1 Process Flow Diagram


• a graphical representation of a chemical engineering process that shows the primary process flow
path.
• does not show the minor details of the process, rather it focuses on the equipment used, control
valves and other instruments that are present.
• helps to illustrate how the major components of a process plant interact with each other to bring
about the desired effect

Benefits
• helps to illustrate how the major components of a process plant interact with each other to bring
about the desired effect.
• helps working personnel to make necessary improvements and changes wherever needed so
that the plant is run at its maximum potential.

• The process flow diagram acts as a standard to be followed by all people involved.

Typical Content Of A Process Flow Diagram


Process flow diagrams of a single unit process will include the following:
• Process piping
• Major equipment items
• Connections with other systems
• Major bypass and recirculation (recycle) streams
• Operational data (temperature, pressure, mass flow rate, density, etc.), often by stream
references to a mass balance.
• Process stream names

2.2 P&ID Diagram


➢ A piping and instrumentation diagram, or P&ID, shows the piping and related components of a
physical process flow. It’s most commonly used in the engineering field.
Function and Purpose of P&IDs
• P&IDS are foundational to the maintenance and modification of the process that it graphically
represents.
• At the design stage, the diagram also provides the basis for the development of system control
schemes, like Hazard and Operability Study (HAZOP).
• For processing facilities, it’s a graphic representation of
o Key piping and instrument details
o Control and shutdown schemes
o Safety and regulatory requirements
o Basic start up and operational information

2.3 P&ID Symbols

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