Concept Engineering
This phase establishes the technical feasibility of a project, defines requirements, and eliminates non-viable options. The focus is on understanding client needs and preparing initial design concepts.
- Defining goals, requirements, and constraints
- Conducting site surveys and product understanding
- Developing ideas from scratch into concepts
- Preparing conceptual process schemes and layouts
- Creating preliminary process flow diagrams (PFDs)
- Drafting men/material flow and HVAC airflow diagrams
- Estimating overall utility requirements
- Outlining fire safety and wastewater systems
- Designing preliminary process and utility systems (water, steam, gases, solvents, tank farms, etc.)