Process Design

Miris are highly competent in the area of chemical/process engineering design, from basic engineering packages with a ±30% capital-cost estimate, pre-sanction design packages to ±10%, right through to detailed engineering for a fully-sanctioned project:

Once the design basis is in place, the process engineers work to create, define and assess the design. The end result is process documentation that describes the process from which future, more detailed, design work can be done:

  • Safety Assessment – see “Health Safety & Environment“
  • PFD development, Generation of P&ID’s (Process & Instrumentation drawings)
  • Mass and energy balances, generated by Excel spreadsheet or proprietary simulation software – see CAE section
  • Basis of Design/ Process Description/ Scope documents
  • MPI Schedules; Equipment design, specification and selection
  • Valve & Instrument schedules/ datasheets
  • Identification of OBL and IBL (Battery limits)
  • Process Control Philosophy/ Sequence Definition Documentation
  • Cost estimation, spreadsheet or ASPEN Cost Estimator (aka Icarus/KBase)
  • Relief and Blowdown studies
  • Task Analysis and Process Training
  • Process design basis development
  • Regulatory basis development, including cGMP process validation (DQ, IQ, OQ & PQ) to FA, BP, PhEur or JP guidelines.  We can even provide this philosophy for non-regulated plant, where clients merely wish to verfiy that the design, construction and operation of their facility, both during commissioning and throughout a plant’s life, meets their high standards and expectations
  • Advanced simulation-spreadsheet user-interfacing
  • Mass and energy balances
  • Technical and economic process alternatives evaluation
  • Equipment plot plans
  • Utility flow diagrams
  • Plant layouts and GA’s
  • Preliminary process operating manuals
  • Raw Materials Specificaton/ Definition of Product Grades

To discuss our full range of Process Design Engineering capabilities and/or arrange a meeting, please contact us post, email, via the website or call us on 0113 239 1591.

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