Process unit

Unit used for the processing of substances or for the production of energy used in the establishment. In the process unit, equipment generally belongs to one or more general categories, as indicated below. For each category of equipment, examples are given but they do not constitute an exhaustive list. ·         Intermediate storage equipment integrated into the process, e.g., mass solid storage, pressure storage, padded storage, atmospheric storage, cryogenic storage ·         Equipment involving chemical reactions, e.g., reactor ·         Equipment devoted to the physical or chemical separation of substances, e.g., distillation column, absorption column, centrifuge, separators, dryers, sieves, classifiers ·         Equipment designed for energy production and supply, e.g., furnaces, boilers, direct-fired heat exchangers ·         Packaging equipment, equipment dedicated to the packaging of material. Packages are not included here, but only the packaging system ·         Other facilities, e.g., pumps, heat exchangers, compressors, gas expansion facility, piping internal to the process unit, mixers; blenders, etc. …