APFE 810 Food Plant Design

Class work
Plant Design
Plant Design refers to the overall Design of manufacturing enterprises, it moves through several stages before it is
completed.
STAGES INVOLVED ARE

Identification and selection of the product

Feasibility analysis and appraisal
Design
Economic Evaluation
Design Report Preparation
Procurement of materials including plant and machinery.
Construction
Installation
Commissioning

The design should consider the technical and economical factors, various unit operations involved, existing and
potential market conditions etc.
Plant Design Specifies
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Equipment to be used
Performance requirements for equipments
Interconnections and raw material flour in terms of flow charts and plant layouts
The placement of equipment/storage spaces
Stop facilities
Offices spaces
Delivery and shipping facilities
Access ways
Size plants and elevation drawings
Required instrumentation and controls and process monitoring and control interconnections
Utility and waste treatment requirement
Connection facilities
The rational for size selection
The basis for selecting and sizing critical pieces of equipment
The ways in which the design was optimized and the engineering basis for such optimization.

They also provide economic analysis of plant profitability terms of various product demand and price and material
lost scenarios.

Plant Design Situations

They may be arise due to one or more of the following
a) Design an erection of an addition to the existing plant.
b) Design an erection of a completely new plant.
c) The facility or plant operations and subsequent expansion restricted by poor site there by necessity the
setting up of the plant at new site.
d) Addition of new product to the existing range.
e) Adoption of some new process/replacement of some existing equipment.
f) Modernization/automation of the existing facility.
g) Expansion of the plant capacity.
h) Relocating the existing plant at a new site because of new social, legal, economical or political factor.

Differences in the design of food processing and non food processing plants
Many of the elements of plant design are the same for food plants as they are for other plants particularly those
processing industrial chemicals. However there are many significant differences, basically in the areas of
equipment selection and sizing and in working space design. This differences stem from the ways in which the
processing of foods differs from the processing of industrial chemicals. Such differences occurs because of the
following consideration-