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Examples of Details of Facilities Designed:

Examples of Specialized Design Activities: ?  Specialized Safety Facilities ?  Pollution Control Facilities ?  Utility Systems ?  Manufacturing Facilities ?  Doing Safety System Designs ?  Doing Designs Using Fire ?  Doing Designs to Prevent & Fight Fire ?  Presenting Safety Design Courses* ?  Preparing Design Manuals** ?  Assuring Safety Design ?  Using Codes & Standards ?  Specifying Signage ?  Doing Facility & Equipment Layout Additional Activities while working in  Engineering Design: ?  Equipment Operation & Testing ?  Industrial Operations' Studies ?  Construction Assistance ?  Facilities Commissioning ?  Facilities Startup  *  ** also designing these courses writing sections & supervising writing by others

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E xamples of  Engineering Design Activities     while Employed in Industrial Operations and Design Engineering

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 Safety Design of Equipment and Facilities - including safeguards and warnings

Safety design was a routine, integral part of the engineering design of all industrial and manufacturing equipment and facilities while employed in industrial operations and engineering design. 

?  Safety design is based on:

• Human Factors  and the analysis of the human - equipment and human - facility interfaces

• accepted engineering safety standards  and practices

• Codes & Standards  and  Recommended Practices

?  Safety design includes:

• designing equipment to reduce or eliminate hazards in the use of the equipment, which is usually called  designing out the safety hazards

• the specification of  safeguards  (such as barrier guards, light curtains, dual operating buttons, safety instrumentation, etc.) as required

• the designing or specification of  warnings  as required

Safety design is performed based on the the  Safety Design Hierarchy , which is the accepted system for design of safe equipment, systems, products and facilities. The Safety Design Hierarchy requires designing for safety as follows:

• first,  design out the safety hazards  in equipment, products and facilities whenever possible

• second,  use safeguards  to protect from those safety hazards which cannot be designed out

• third,  use warnings  for those safety hazards which cannot be designed out and for which safeguards cannot be used to protect from the safety hazard

• fourth,  use warnings to complement safeguards  when safeguards are used to protect from hazards

?  Design using the Safety Design Hierarchy has prohibitions as follows:

• do NOT use warnings in place of safeguards or designing out a hazard, if these are practical

• do NOT use safeguards in place of designing out a hazard, if this is practical

? Other Technical Activities Associated with Engineering Design

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• Conducted  equipment operation testing  in manufacturing facilities

• Performed  industrial operation studies  in manufacturing facilities, including studies to develop the data required to design additional similar facilities

• Performed  drainage studies  in industrial and manufacturing facilities to develop the data required for the design of surface facilities and trenches/flumes and sewers for the drainage required

• Designed specialized  safety and air pollution control systems , including flares, vents, foam fire protection systems and the like

• Assisted with construction  of industrial and manufacturing facilities, including providing technical assistance to Construction personnel at the construction site and providing construction site engineering design services and supervision of construction

• Participated in the  commissioning (completing the construction) and startup  of manufacturing facilities

• Designed and presented  courses  to Design Engineers covering the  design of safety  relief devices and safety relief systems

• Organized, participated in and supervised the  writing of Design Manuals  for equipment, machinery, piping, valving and instrumentation to meet safety design requirements and applicable codes, standards and recommended practices

• Organized, participated in and supervised the  writing of a Design Manual  for the design of boiler systems to meet safety design requirements and the ASME Boiler Code and other applicable codes and standards

• Assured the technical quality  of engineering designs, especially of the  safety design  of equipment and facilities, design of safety facilities and  warnings; through hands-on reviews and formal technical reviews and approvals of engineering designs of industrial and manufacturing facilities, piping, valving, instrumentation, equipment and machinery

• Made use of  industry, technical society and government codes, standards and recommended practices  extensively during design of industrial and manufacturing facilities, piping, valving, instrumentation equipment and machinery, and advised and instructed others on the proper use of these Codes in their design

E xamples of  Equipment and Components Designed and Specified               while Employed in Industrial Operations and Design Engineering

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• Piping and tubing ranging from approximately 1/4 inch to 48 inches in diameter, used for:

• water 

• steam

• gases

• chemicals

• pneumatic control and power systems (using air or nitrogen)

• hydraulic control and power systems  (using hydraulic fluid), etc.

• Valves ranging from approximately 1/4 inch to 48 inches in size including:

• hand-operated valves

• remote-operated valves (with electrical, hydraulic or pneumatic control and power) 

• automatically operated valves (with electrical, hydraulic or pneumatic control and power)

• gate valves 

• globe valves

• needle valves

• butterfly valves 

• ball valves

• rotary valves, etc.

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• Safety and overpressure relief valves • rupture discs

• overpressure blowout panels

• Skimmers, flotation and settling clarifiers

• Ground flares and elevated flare stacks for burning hazardous gases and liquid chemicals

• Non-burning vent stacks for disposal of non-hazardous gases to meet EPA anti-pollution regulations

• Gas blowers • fans

• Ejectors

• Compressors (for gases, including air and nitrogen) including: 

• centrifugal compressors 

• reciprocating compressors

• screw compressors

• Pumps (for liquids, including water and chemicals) including: 

• centrifugal pumps

• reciprocating positive displacement pumps

• screw positive displacement pumps

• sump pumps, etc.

• Vacuum pumps (for gases - creates and maintains a vacuum)

• Turbines, motors, and engines to drive machinery, including: 

• steam-driven turbines

• gas-expansion turbines

• electric motors

• gas-fired  and  oil-fueled engines

machinery driven by turbines, motors, and engines includes:

• compressors

• pumps

• blowers, 

• conveyors

• plastics processing equipment

• similar powered equipment

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• Furnaces, including: 

• safety, control, fuel, exhaust and product instrumentation systems

• piping and ductwork systems

• Direct-fired boilers • waste-heat boilers (including steam generators), including: 

• safety, control, fuel, exhaust and product instrumentation systems

• piping and ductwork systems

• Heaters and heat exchangers including:

• liquid to liquid heat exchangers

• liquid to gas* heat exchangers

• gas* to gas* heat exchangers 

• shell and tube heat exchangers

• double pipe heat exchangers

• multipipe heat exchangers

• plate heat exchangers

• bayonet heat exchangers

• air coolers

• tank coils

• vessel jacketing

• kettle reboilers

• thermo-siphon reboilers

• vessel and tank heaters ,  etc.                

* gases handled by heat exchangers included air

• Dryers for solids, including: 

• rotary dryers

• fluidized bed dryers

• spray dryers, etc.

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• Dehumidifiers to remove liquids from gases

• Pressure and vacuum vessels and tanks for liquids and gases.

• Atmospheric storage tanks for liquids

• Storage bins for solids and particulates

• Distillation, absorption and solvent extraction columns, including: 

• trayed and packed columns.

• Plastics processing equipment, including:

• compounders 

• extruders

• choppers, etc.

• Conveyors, including: 

• belt conveyors 

• pneumatic conveyors 

• screw conveyors

• bucket conveyors, etc.

• Liquid and gas filters and bag houses

• Separators, including:

• impingement separators

• cyclone separators, etc.

• Traveling cranes, traveling winches, etc.

• Materials of construction for: 

• piping, equipment, machinery, etc.

E xamples of  Systems Designed and Specified               while Employed in Industrial Operations and Design Engineering  

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• Overpressure relief systems

• including the associated piping, valves, equipment and instrumentation 

• Hazardous chemical (liquid and gas) relief systems

• including the associated piping, valves, equipment and instrumentation

• Air pollution systems

• including the associated piping, valves, equipment and instrumentation 

• Surface and open subsurface drainage and spill containment systems

• including the grading, surfacing, trenches and flumes

• Gravity and pressure industrial sewer systems

• Liquid and solid industrial waste disposal facilities

• including skimmers, and flotation and settling clarifiers

• Control systems including:

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• automatic and manual control systems 

• local and remote control systems

• pneumatic, electrical and hydraulic control systems

• including those specifically designed to assure the safety of the operation of equipment and systems

• Control system panel layouts • alarm panel layouts

• Fire suppression systems

• Steam and electricity co-generation systems (which generate steam and electricity at the same time)

• Refrigeration systems

• including machinery (compressors, etc.), controls, safety systems and piping

• Utility production systems for the production of:

• Utility distribution systems

• including piping, instrumentation and controls 

• Signage, including warning signs 

• Equipment and machinery layouts

• building and structure specifications

E xamples of  Facilities Designed  while Employed in Industrial Operations and Design Engineering 

Specialized Safety Facilities, including those using fire and those for fire suppression 

• Pressure relief systems for numerous industrial and manufacturing facilities.

• Gas and liquid burning flare stacks for numerous industrial and manufacturing facilities.

• Fire suppressant systems, including water, inert gas and foam systems for several facilities.

 Air and Water Pollution Control Facilities  Utility System Facilities  (steam, treated water, plant and instrument air, nitrogen, etc.)

• Utility distribution systems for numerous industrial and manufacturing facilities

• including piping, instrumentation and controls 

• Utility production systems for the production of:

• steam (using boilers) 

• treated water for industrial purposes

• plant and instrument air

• nitrogen, etc.

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for use in:

• a petrochemical, utilities and storage complex, a large group of industrial, manufacturing, utilities and storage facilities

• a lube oil manufacturing facility

• a substitute natural gas (SNG) manufacturing and storage facility.

• a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility.

• a polystyrene manufacturing facility.

 Industrial and Manufacturing Facilities

• Plastics manufacturing grassroots* facilities including: 

• low density polyethylene manufacturing facilities 

• polypropylene manufacturing facilities 

• a polystyrene (styrene) manufacturing facility 

• extrusion and compounding facilities (used to knead plastics) for grassroots high density polyethylene manufacturing facilities

• Petroleum processing facilities including: 

• Chemical production grassroots* facilities including: 

• herbicide manufacturing facilities

• ethyl hexanol manufacturing facilities

• a MTBE and paraxylene absorption manufacturing facility

• a MTBE and Dimersol manufacturing facility

• a benzene hydrofining unit

• a fire retardant manufacturing facility

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• Natural gas processing grassroots* facilities including: 

• Downsizing and modernization of: 

• a natural gas separation facility

• a natural gasoline facility. 

• Tank farms (a large number of large tanks and associated equipment, piping and instrumentation in a stand-alone facility) for: 

• a facility for revaporization of liquefied natural gas

• a facility to produce substitute natural gas (SNG).

• Renovation of solvent recovery and refining facilities for a high density polyethylene manufacturing facility

• Dry ice expanded tobacco manufacturing facility.

*   "grassroots" facilities, also known as "greenfield" facilities are facilities which are totally new, starting     with the grading of the ground  •  such facilities may or may not be in a manufacturing complex with     other older completed facilities

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