PROCESS ENGINEERING
Based on our extensive experience and success Vanir Bio offers support for the:
a) Design of new facilities or the modification or expansion of existing facilities. The design starts at a conceptual level and ultimately ends in the form of fabrication and construction plans.
b) Design of manufacturing processes based on mini-pilot data for desired physical and/or chemical transformation of recombinant proteins.
c) Support the generation and the review of process design documents, which ensures that the design components fit together. These documents are useful in communicating ideas and plans to other engineers involved with the design, to external regulatory agencies, to equipment vendors and to construction contractors.
In order of increasing detail, process design documents include:
• Block Flow Diagrams (BFD): Very simple diagrams composed of rectangles and lines indicating major material flows.
• Process Flow Diagrams (PFD's): Typically more complex diagrams of major unit operations as well as flow lines. They usually include a material balance, and sometimes an energy balance, showing typical or design flow rates, stream compositions, and stream and equipment pressures and temperatures.
• Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID's): Diagrams showing each and every pipeline with piping class and pipe size (diameter). They also show valving along with instrument locations and process control schemes.
• Specifications: Written design requirements of all major equipment items.
