The Institution of Plant Engineers

Membership of the Institution of Plant Engineers is the hallmark of the professional plant engineer and is often a prerequisite for successful career progression. This will become increasingly so in post-1992 Europe, when evidence of appropriate professional qualifications may be a legal requirement for employment in many engineering appointments. 

The Institution of Plant Engineers is a Nominated Body of the Engineering Council (EC) and is thus able to nominate members in appropriate membership grades for EC registration. 

To enable those engineers engaged in plant engineering to look to the future, the Institution of Plant Engineers has formulated a simple procedure for recording an engineer s attendance at activities, which contribute to CET and have been approved by the Institution for that purpose. Further information may be obtained from the Institution. 

The Institution of Plant Engineers 77 Great Peter Street London S WIP 2EZ Telephone 020-7233 2855... 

In addition, at age 26 engineer surveyors can apply for Associate Membership of the Bureau of Engineer Surveyors, who are a division of the Institution of Plant Engineers. Transfer to membership is possible after a further two years employment as an engineer surveyor. 

R S Pratt, ALU, CEng, MlMfgE, MBIM, MSAE Secretary-General, The Institution of Plant Engineers... 

Richard J. Wyatt President, The Institute of Plant Engineers (UK)... 

Figure 15.4 A plant for the production of animal feed. The heat pump encroaches into a pocket in the gremd composite curve. (From Smith and Linnhojf, Trans. IChemE, ChERD, 66 195, 1988 reproduced by permission of the Institution of Chemical Engineers.)...

Kletz, T. A. (1984). Cheaper, Safer Plants, or Wealth and Safety at Work. Rugby, Warwickshire, England The Institution of Chemical Engineers. 

Pilz, V. (1995). Bayer s Procedure for the Design and Qperation of Safe Chemical Plants. Inherently Safer Process Design, 4.54-4.65. Rugby, England The Institution of Chemical Engineers. 

Redman, T., Roliani, S. and Strathdee, G., 1997. Control of the crystal mean size in a pilot plant potash crystallizer. Transactions of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, 75A, 183-192. 

As a further consideration of the overall system design, it is necessary to examine the choice of the number of pumps installed. In the petrochemical and process industries availability is an important factor in plant operation. The Institution of Mechanical Engineers suggests several classes of pumps linked to availability ... 

Booklets and leaflets published by most oil suppliers Libraries of Institute of Plant Engineers Institution of Production Engineers Institute of Petroleum Institution of Electrical Engineers Institution of Mechanical Engineers Literature published by additive companies Literature published by the American Society of Lubrication Engineers Libraries of universities... 

The contribution of each of these items to the total capital cost is calculated by multiplying the total purchased equipment by an appropriate factor. As with the basic Lang factor , these factors are best derived from historical cost data for similar processes. Typical values for the factors are given in several references, Happle and Jordan (1975) and Garrett (1989). Guthrie (1974), splits the costs into the material and labour portions and gives separate factors for each. In a booklet published by the Institution of Chemical Engineers, IChemE (1988), the factors are shown as a function of plant size and complexity. 

The design of inherently safe process plant is discussed by Kletz in a booklet published by the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Kletz (1984) and Keltz and Cheaper (1998). He makes the telling point that what you do not have cannot leak out so cannot catch fire, explode or poison anyone. Which is a plea to keep the inventory of dangerous material to the absolute minimum required for the operation of the process. 

The purpose of this guidebook, written by Barton and Rogers for the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), is to provide a basis for good practice in assessing reactive hazards. It is written for those responsible for design and operation of chemical plants. It addresses hazards from uncontrolled exothermic activity in batch and semibatch chemical reaction systems as well as associated process equipment. 

This incident, as well as a number of other problems with plant modifications, has been published by Trevor Kletz under the title Some Loss Prevention Case Histories. [8] It is now also available as part of a training kit with 35mm slides, presenters guides, and booklets. The kit is entitled Hazards of Plant Modifications—Hazard Workshop Module 02 and can be purchased from the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Warwickshire, England. I highly recommend it for in-plant training. 

The mechanics in this area wanted to do a good job and this incident occurred. How can you impress upon the craftsmen the weaknesses of low-pressure tanks The maintenance superintendent in this area wanted practical training to reduce the probability of a repeat. Concerned supervision scheduled 100 mechanics in this section of the plant to a tender tank presentation patterned after the Institution of Chemical Engineers Hazard Workshop Module The Hazards of Under and Over-Pressurizing Vessels. [4] Procedural changes for hydrotests were also made. 

The Institution of Chemical Engineers markets Ha/ards Workshop 005, which is entitled Furnace Fires and Explosions. [1] One of the advertising leaflets for this workshop makes the following generalization Furnaces are comparatively simple items for a plant, and because they are unsophisticated they tend to be imperfecdy understood by operators and plant managers alike. Their tolerance to abuse is limited, and once abused their useful life can be drastically shortened. Worse still they may fail suddenly, since furnace tubes distort easily and then fracture. Such failure is often severe, with a consequential fire and/or explosion. ... 

Kletz, Trevor A., A Three-Pronged Approach to Plant Modifications, lass Prevention 10, 1976 pp. 91-98. This material is also available as Hazards of Plant Modifications—Hazard Workshop Module 002 (available as a training kit with slides, booklets, guides, etc., by the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Rugby, England). 

P. T. Williams S. Besler and D. T. Taylor, The batch pyrolysis of tyre waste - fuel properties of the derived pyrolytic oil and overall plant economics. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part A. Journal of Power and Energy, 207, 55-63 (1993). 

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