Process technology had its beginnings in piping and boiler engineering but it has now developed into an interdisciplinary science.
In order to describe the multitude of processes, these can no longer be meaningfully divided into basic operations (Unit operations) with only one physical process, such as mixing or evaporation. Instead, these basic operations are strung together to comprise the overall process. This results in the first basic diagram of a process.
In subsequent steps, the detailed P&ID flow chart is created. In the P&ID flow chart, all components required to operate a facility - such as containers, vessels, pumps, compressors, heat exchangers, piping systems, valves and gauges - are symbolically displayed and connected with lines that represent the future systems.
With our Smap3D P&ID process engineering software, engineering processes from diverse fields can be planned and documented as intelligent diagrams:
