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  • Difference between Front End Engineering Design (FEED) and fabrication/construction?

    Can anyone explain the difference between Front End Engineering Design (FEED) and fabrication/construction in oil and gas sector? And also, what do Front End Engineering actually do? Thanks.


    Quote Originally Posted by feune111962 View Post
    The FEED takes place upstream the detailed engineering studies. It covers all the process engineering studies for a given project. Typical documents produced during the FEED are:
    - PFD & Block diagram
    - P&ID and line list
    - Utilities & general facilities distribution and line list
    - Equipment data sheet
    - Control valves datasheet
    - Cause an effect chart

    I hope that this clear enough.
    Quote Originally Posted by mrkssastry View Post
    FEED: Front End Engineering & Design

    This the first stage of Engineering for any Project (Chemical / Petrochemical / Oil & Gas / Refinery etc) where the following discussed & decided.

    1. Technical / Process Wise:
    a. Material Balance (Mass & Heat)
    b. Process Flow - How the various raw materials flow from start to end & in what form
    c. Major equipments of the process - pumps, vessels, heat exchangers, filters, etc
    d. Safety Systems requirement for process

    Engineering Wise:

    1. Approximate Load List - for motors, transformers, drives, High Voltage Switchgear, UPS size, Diesel Genertor requirements etc
    2. Utilities required for the process - Air compressors, Nitrogen Plant, Fire Fighting systems, Hot Oil Heating Systems requirement, Air Dryers etc
    3. Major Instrumentation Systems - PLC / SCADA / DCS system (which one or combination of the above etc)
    4. Approximate Instrument List - Kind of Networks used, kind of Instruments used, system architecture (rough sketch / drawing showing the different networks connectivity between them)


    Management Wise:

    a. The total cost of the project - around X +20% approximation (within the accuracy of +/- 20% accuracy)
    b. The total manpower requirement for the plant
    c. Total List of Raw Materials requirement & their quantities
    d. Approximate time required for completion of the project

    Philosophies wise:

    1. Plant Operating Philosophies / Plant Design Philosophy & design Basis
    2. Instrumentation Engineering philosophy - Design & selection basis documentation
    3. Control Systems Philosophies - Heirarchies being implemented, design basis for selection of PLC / SCADA / DCS Systems, Third Party Interfaces, OPC Interfaces, Serial Interfaces between systems, Interfaces between DCS, ESD, F&G systems
    4. Safety Shutdown Systems philosophy - LOPA Studies / HAZOP studies / CHAZOP studies etc including SIL calculations.

    Now apart from the above, the following are the deliverables at the end of the FEED.

    1. Mass & Heat Balance Calculations
    2. Process Flow Diagrams
    3. Process & Instrumentation Diagrams (only 70 - 75% accurate)
    4. Load list for electrical
    5. Major Equipments & their Sizing (Major Equipments 100% accurate, however, there might be an addition of a one or two pumps / motors / blowers that might get added during the detail engineering stages but not vessels / heat exchangers or tanks).
    6. Instrument list - which is 80% to 90% accurate.

    However, please do remember the following:

    1. Instrumentation Datasheets / Process Datasheets / Mechanical Datasheets are not the deliverables of FEED. They are preapred during the Detail Engineering Phase
    2. Instruments Selection, Sizing Calculations are finalized / done during the detail engineering phase only.


    Hope i am correct. However, request senior professionals to comment on the same.

    Sastry Musti
    Instrumentation & Control Systems Engineer
    This article was originally published in forum thread: Difference between Front End Engineering Design (FEED) and fabrication/construction? started by cxcxcx0505 View original post
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