Front End Engineering Design Study (FEED)
The very front end of every large design project is critical to the long-term success or failure of the plant. While the business plan identifies the economic opportunity, the Front End Engineering Design Study (FEED) will establish the set of process operating conditions and equipment to achieve the level of reliability, efficiency, and safety required. This design phase sets the direction for the rest of the project. Because it is so critical to the future success or failure of the overall objectives, we feel our clients make the wise choice by purchasing proven licensed processes or selecting a firm like ours which specializes in process design engineering.
PROCESS has learned to put great emphasis on the development of the Design Basis at the initiation of the FEED. When the design basis is complete, we typically have the following information defined:
- Raw material specifications
- Plant capacity requirements
- Product specifications
- Critical plant operating parameters
- Available utilities specifications
- Individual unit operations performance requirements
- Process regulatory requirements
- All other operating goals and constraints desired by the plant owners/operators/engineers
Once the design basis is in place, and agreed upon by our client, our team of chemical process engineers goes to work to create, analyze, and begin to refine the many aspects of the plant design. The end result is process documentation that preliminarily describes the process from which future, more detailed, design work can be done.
Typically a FEED package’s Process Engineering Deliverables may include the following or a smaller subset of these items:
- Process design basis
- Process descriptions
- Process design philosophies
- Relief system design basis
- Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs)
- Utility Flow Diagrams (UFDs)
- Material Selection Diagrams (MSDs)
- Material & Energy Balance (M&EB)
- Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs)
- Line list
- Tie-in list
- Process equipment list
- Process specialty items list
- Equipment process datasheets
- Instrument process datasheets
- Relief scenario datasheets and relief valve process datasheets
- Hydraulic design reports
- Utility balances
- Chemical and catalyst summary
- Process effluent summary
- Process risk analysis
- Process study reports