CHEE4060 Group Project Report Instruction sheet

Process Control
School of Chemical Engineering
The University of Queensland
Brisbane QLD 4072 Australia
s.tait@uq.edu.au
(07) 3346 7208

To Project Team Leader

From Stephan Tait, Project Leader
Date 01/03/2017
Re: Group project: Control system design

Dear Project Team Leader

Your team has secured a project, supporting our firm with the design of a control system for our new industrial process.
This involves the following key activities:
a) as a project team, first understand our industrial process and how it works, then describe the purpose and function
of our process and show process details on a Process Flow Diagram (PFD) with mass and energy balance results;
b) each individual team member, use a clear and systematic analysis with clear decision-making criteria to decide
which process variables to control, measure and manipulate, ensuring that your decision-making is well-supported
and justified. This activity aims to define the so-called control loops for our process. Each individual team
member should develop the control loops for two major unit operations in our process;
c) each individual team member, draw your control loops on a group Process Control Diagram (PCD). The PCD
should also show the equipment and connecting mass flow and energy flow streams that were shown on your PFD
(essentially a copy-paste of the PFD), but the PCD should show the control loops and not the mass and energy
balance table. You should provide a group PCD(s) showing all the control loops developed by individual group
members.
d) each individual team member, select and size control hardware (please see below for the details and scope of this
activity). Each individual team member should size, select and price one control valve and one pump for the unit
operation for which they developed control loops in activity (b) above. Each individual team member should select
one complete sensor for the unit operation for which they developed control loops in activity (b) above;
e) as a project team, describe general control considerations and start-up/shutdown considerations for the process.

Please clearly identify which person did which parts of individual sections (b) and (d).

Please submit the above work in a final group report due by 5:00pm 28 April 2017. Please submit a plastic ring-
bound hard-copy via the EAIT assignment chute (report body and front pages should be double-page printed on A4,
PFD(s) and PCD(s) should be single page-printed on A3). Please also submit an electronic copy via Turn-It-In.

It is important that you provide clear documented evidence of your analysis, approaches taken, decisions made, and any
recommendations made. Your writing should be appropriate and professional, and we strongly encourage innovation
and creativity. The report should have a cover letter addressed to myself and signed by all group members. Your report
should have a 1-page Executive Summary containing an overview of the background, a method/content overview,
quantitative results and clear implications/recommendations. Your report should have a table of contents.

Yours sincerely,

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Stephan Tait

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Project Deliverable 1 Report Structure Guideline

NOTE: The following is a guideline for layout to give you a broad idea of contents. You do NOT have to follow this
layout in your report.
Keep your report clear and concise, and include only relevant information. Aim to clearly sort information and decision-
making.

Cover Letter
Executive Summary
TOC
Introduction
- Background, purpose of report & project
- Scope - Whats included and excluded in the analysis? (can be neatly presented in In-Scope/Out-of-Scope table)

Process Description
- Overview of the process, function, and specific function and control objectives for each major unit operation.
The description of individual unit operations should state which PFD they are located on and what their
equipment code is as shown on the PFD.
- Mass (and energy if relevant) balance tables should be presented on the PFD (or on a separate dedicated PFD
with its own separate assigned PFD number).
- Summary tables of key mass (and energy if relevant) balances should also be presented in the report section.
- Please put the PFD(s) as A3 sheets in the Appendices, NOT imbedded in the report.

Control Loops
- Unit operation overview and function
- Control objectives
- Qualitative inventory balances
- Control loop specification
- Clearly identify disturbances, controlled variables, measured variables, manipulated variables, with reference to
the PCD(s) and particular control loops (numbered).
- Please put the PCD(s) as A3 sheets in the Appendices, NOT imbedded in the report.

Control System Hardware Sizing and Selection

- Hardware purpose and function
- Basis for selection
- Summary of calculation results, with reference to detailed calculations in the Appendices.
- Details of selected hardware, including costing

Process Control Considerations

- Description of key considerations during commissioning/decommissioning of the PROCESS. Commissioning
activities
- Discussion of other generic design/process issues/operations issues that could affect process control, and
potential changes to the design or process to improve control.

Recommendations

Appendices; including A3 PFD(s); A3 PCD(s); Example mass and energy balance calculations; Hardware sizing
calculations

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