Design Considerations
Designs have objectives and constraints, and even a simple process requires a trade-off among such factors.
Objectives that a design may strive to include:
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- Throughput rate
- Process yield
- Product purity
Constraints include:
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- Capital cost
- Available space
- Safety concerns
- Environmental impact and projected effluents and emissions
- Waste production
- Operating and maintenance costs
Other factors that designers may include are:
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- Reliability
- Redundancy
- Flexibility
- Anticipated variability in feedstock and allowable variability in product.
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