Plant Layout & Spacing (GE GAP Guidelines)

Trainer: Engr. Adeyemi

About this Course

A plant layout course typically covers the design and arrangement of facilities, equipment, and resources in a manufacturing or service environment.

Plant layouts have a major influence on the operation of a plant. An improper layout design can lead to hazardous situations, impractical maintenance or reduced plant efficiency. These can have a significant financial impact for the owner of the plant. So understanding the various considerations that come with determining a plant layout is important for designing a proper layout.

In this course different considerations are discussed for different levels of layout design and applications. This will increase your understanding of what has to be taken into account when positioning your equipment’s during designing the plant layout. Topics include safety, proximity, maintenance, constructability, practicality and economic considerations. After this course participants will have the knowledge to design a basic plant layout.

The following codes and standard are referred; API 500, API 2510, API RP 752, NFPA 30, NFPA 50A, NFPA 58, NFPA 59.

Duration

3 Days

Methodology

Theoretical

Prerequisite

Affinity with industrial plants

Learning outcomes

• Knowledge of process industry plants
• Understand the overview of the plant layout considerations
• Identify the potential hazards on a plant and incorporate them in your layout design
• Knowledge of GE GAP Guidelines and Industrial Risk Insurers (IRI) requirements
• Understand the spacing’s for various unit operations and equipment’s as per codes and standards & manufacturer recommendation.
• Perform an inter unit operations/equipment’s spacing for oil and gas plants
• Perform an intra unit operations/equipment’s spacing for oil and gas plants
• Perform storage tank spacing for oil and gas plants

Course outline

Module 1: Introduction to process industry plants

Module 2: Identify different types of industrial plants.

Module 3: GE GAP Guidelines

Module 4: Industrial Risk Insurers (IRI) requirements

Module 5: Layout Consideration

Module 6: Plant Spacing

Module 7: Process Equipment Spacing

Module 8: Specific Facilities

Module 9: Building siting in process plants

Module 10: Process Units to Offplot Facility Spacing

Module 11: Case Studies and Applications

Assessment

Online Written Exam

Course Delivery Formats

Classroom-based training

Online courses

In-house workshops

On-the-job training

Cost

₦120,000 / $100