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Dr. Javier Blasco Alberto
Dr. Javier Blasco Alberto
Associate Professor at School of Engineering and Architecture (Univ. Zaragoza)
Published May 7, 2019
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First, some of these terms are "work activities" (or "a work process") and some are the "deliverables" (or the "product") of a work activity. Lets start by putting them in the order we would normally see accomplish them.
Plant layout: This is first a "work activity." It is the process of determining what Area you have for a Plant, the equipment or units you need to fit into the Area and the exact relationship these items must have relative to each other. In the past it has been done with manual sketches, paper cut-outs and small scale block models. Today it can be done in "Model Space" by moving around circles, rectangles and squares, as long as you keep it simple. Remember, this is an activity, it is not a deliverable. You can call it the Plant Layout, but it is still not the deliverable.
Plot Plan: (aka: General Arrangement drawing or GA): This is a "deliverable." After the overall plant layout or unit layout has reached a point where the actual equipment number, sizes and shapes are known the "Model Space" version of the plant layout can be up-dated and formalized. It would then be moved to "Paper Space", a Title Block added and the formal Plot Plan produced. This document now goes to various people for review and approval including the Client. Because of the timing, the scale and the purpose of this Plot Plan document it would not and should not have any coordinates or dimensions on it to locate equipment or facilities.
Location Control Plan (LCP): This document is a limited internal deliverable tool that would not and should not be issued to the job site. This is the more detailed step to fixing the location of each piece of equipment in to its final location. This final location will be based on the purpose, function size of that piece of equipment along with the piping layout, operation space and the maintenance space. In addition to this there are the space requirements for any related electrical equipment and instrumentation requirements. The final location of each piece of equipment is also affected by the foundation design, and the foundation design is impacted by the type and stability of the soil at the site. The final location of a piece of equipment should only be conveyed to the field by the document (maybe called Foundation Location Plan) from the Structural department.
Piping Layout: This is first an activity (or a process) and then a product. A piping designer does piping layout. This is the process of defining the piece of equipment, the maintenance spaces and the related electrical needs. Then routes the piping to accomplish the process function of the piece of equipment then add the space requirements for operation and you have a piping layout. The final location of any piece of equipment is impacted by the piping layout. This final location is added to the "GA" (or LCP) which is then routed to the structural group. As you can see there is a normal understood cycle and recycle between the piping group with the piping layouts, the "GA's" and the structural group and their "Foundation Location Plan".
Piping Plans (& Sections): These are the most detailed drawings created by the Piping Engineering and Design effort.They may be created via 2D CAD or be extracted from a 3D model. The level of detail is very specific. The equipment is shown in rough outline but with Equipment Number, key centerline coordinates all the nozzles.The nozzles are all shown in detail and in exact location and identification. Piping is also shown in detail with enough information to draw or check Isometrics.
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Mohammed Kamal Gaber
Sr.Process Engineer , Petrojet - Ph.D.
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GA drawings are not the same as layout , they are dedicated to certain equipment area .These drawings are very helpful to site fabrication works, and it shows supports locationz and types in a quiet detailed way and of course refers to pipe support detail drawings.Thank you.
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Funke Taylor PMP
Energy Professional | C-suite Executive | Process Engineer | Digital transformation enthusiast | Founder @The Energy Axis
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Lol @ 'go for tea breaks'. I can relate. I know that line too well...its so convenient to blame you (as the Process Lead) for why other disciplines are not putting out thier deliverables.
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Vijay Sarathy
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The plot plan is equally important for process engineers at basic/pre-feed stage to make preliminary estimates. Since piping designers take some time to prepare the piping layout, process engineers use the plot plan for example to arrive at a preliminary pipe/pipeline sizes & associated pressure drops, equipment capacities, etc. Such documents will have lot of "Holds", marked in the reports & issued internally as 'rev0' documents.On a lighter note, those rev0 documents are important for process engineers to save themselves from other department's complaints like - "Sir, these process fellows didn't issue the process design basis, so we are going for tea breaks"!! 😄😄😄
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Dr. Javier Blasco Alberto
Associate Professor at School of Engineering and Architecture (Univ. Zaragoza)
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Thanks to James O. Pennock for providing us the texts for this article
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