Process diagram

The ‘process’ is an idea or concept that is developed to a certain level in order to determine the feasibility of the project. ‘Feasibility’ study is the name given to a small design project that is conducted to determine the scope and cost of implementing the project from concept to operation. To keep things simple, for example, design an imaginary coffee bottling plant to produce bottled coffee for distribution. Start by creating a basic flow diagram that illustrates the objective for the proposed plant; this diagram is called a “Process Block Diagram”.

Type of Flow Diagrams
Process engineers are responsible for developing flow diagrams. In many large engineering firms, an entire department is dedicated to the development of flow diagrams. Today almost all flow diagrams are laid out with CAD, using third-party piping packages such as Pro-Flow or individually developed company packages.

1. Process Flow Diagram
2. Mechanical Flow Diagram
3. Utility Flow Diagram