Design Information Specific design Data 1.

Raw Materials and Products: their specification, compositions, purity, toxicity, temperatures, pressures, amounts, monetary values, availability, and seasonal products. 2. Reaction Information: All available laboratory and pilot plant data on reaction and phase equilibrium behaviors. 2.1 Stoichiometry of the participating reactions 2.2 Reaction temperatuer and pressure 2.3 Phase (s) of the reaction system 2.4 Heats of reaction and equilibrium data 2.5 Rate of Reaction relating it to composition, temperature, pressure, impurities, catalysts, and so on 2.6 Thermal and other physical properties 2.7 Activity of the catalyst as a function of time 2.8 Mode of catalyst reactivation and replacement 2.9 Stability and controllability of the process 2.10 Special considerations of heat and mass transfer 2.11 Corrosion and safety hazards Basic Engineering Data 1. Characteristics and values of gaseous and liquid fuels that to be used. 2. Characteristics of raw makeup and cooling tower waters, temperatures, maximum allowable temperature, flow rates available, and unit costs. 3. Characteristics and values of gaseous and liquid fuels that to be used. 4. Characteristics of raw makeup and cooling tower waters, temperatures, maximum allowable temperature, flow rates available, and unit costs. 5. Electrical power: Voltages allowed for instruments, lighting and various driver sizes, transformer capacities, need for emergency generator, unit costs. 6. Compressed air: capacities and pressures of plant and instrument air, instrument air dryer. 7. Plant site elevation. 8. Soil bearing value, frost depth, ground water depth, piling requiremnets, available soil test data. 9. Climate data. Winter and summer temperature extrema, cooling tower drybulb temperature, air cooler design temparature, strength and direction of prevailing winds rain and snowfall maxima in 1 hr and in 2 hr, earthquake provision. 10. Blowdown and flare: What may or may not be vented to the atmosphere or to ponds or to natural waters, nature of required liquid, and vapor relief systems. 11. Drainage and sewers: rainwater, oil, sanitary. 12. Buildings: process, pump, control instruments, special equipment. 13. Paving types required in different areas. 14. Pipe racks: elevations, grouping, coding. 15. Battery limit pressures and temperatures of individual feed stocks and products. 16. Codes: those governing pressure vessels, other equipment, buildings, electrical, safety, sanitation, and others.

17. Miscellaneous: includes heater stacks, winterizing, insulation, steam or electrical tracing of lines, heat exchanger tubing size standardization, instrument locations.

Sources of Information 1. Research Journals 2. Encyclopedias 2.1 Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology 2.2 the Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing and Design (McKetta and Cunningham) 2.3 Ullmans Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry 2.4 McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology 2.5 Van Nostrands Scientific Encyclopedia 2.6 the Encyclopedia of Fluid Mechanics 2.7 the Encyclopedia of Materials Science and Engineering 3. Handbooks and Reference Books 3.1 Perrys Chemical Engineers Handbook 3.2 the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 3.3 JANAF Thermochemical Tables 3.4 Riegels Handbook of Industrial Chemistry 3.5 the Chemical Processing Handbook 3.6 the Unit Operations Handbook 3.7 Process Design and Engineering Practice 3.8 Data for Process Design and Engineering Practice 3.9 the Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards 4. Indexes 5. Patents 6. SRI Design Reports