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Process Flow Diagram

A Process Flow Diagram (PFD) is a diagram which shows the relationships between the main components in a system. Process Flow Diagrams are widely used by engineers in chemical and process engineering, they allows to indicate the general flow of plant process streams and equipment, helps to design the petroleum refineries, petrochemical and chemical plants, natural gas processing plants, and many other industrial facilities.
ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with powerful tools of Flowcharts Solution from the "What is a Diagram" Area of ConceptDraw Solution Park is effective for drawing: Process Flow Diagram, Flow Process Diagram, Business Process Flow Diagrams.

Process Flow Diagram Symbols

Chemical and Process Engineering Solution from the Engineering Area of ConceptDraw Solution Park is a unique tool which contains variety of predesigned process flow diagram symbols for easy creating various Chemical and Process Flow Diagrams in ConceptDraw PRO.
This process flow diagram (PFD) of a typical crude oil distillation unit as used in petroleum crude oil refineries was redrawn from Wikipedia file: Crude Oil Distillation Unit.png. [en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ File:Crude_ Oil_ Distillation_ Unit.png]
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. [creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 3.0/ deed.en]
"An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where crude oil is processed and refined into more useful products such as petroleum naphtha, gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt base, heating oil, kerosene and liquefied petroleum gas. Oil refineries are typically large, sprawling industrial complexes with extensive piping running throughout, carrying streams of fluids between large chemical processing units. In many ways, oil refineries use much of the technology of, and can be thought of, as types of chemical plants. The crude oil feedstock has typically been processed by an oil production plant. There is usually an oil depot (tank farm) at or near an oil refinery for the storage of incoming crude oil feedstock as well as bulk liquid products.
An oil refinery is considered an essential part of the midstream side of the petroleum industry." [en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Oil_ refinery]
The process flow diagram (PFD) example "Crude oil distillation" was drawn using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Chemical and Process Engineering solution from the Chemical and Process Engineering area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
Process flow diagram (PFD)
Process flow diagram (PFD), vapor, horizontal, jacketed vessel, vaporizing equipment, heater, cooler, heat exchanger, intersecting flowlines, fired heater, column, centrifugal pump, air-blown, cooler,
The vector stencils library "Laboratory equipment" contains 31 clipart icons of chemical laboratory equipment and labware.
Use these shapes for drawing part assembly and mounting schemes of glassware apparatus in chemical experiment diagrams and illustrations in the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Chemistry solution from the Science and Education area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
Vigreux distillation column
Vigreux distillation column, Vigreux column, distillation column, fractionating column, fractionation column,
Hirsch funnel
Hirsch funnel, Hirsch funnel,
Oil bath
Oil bath, oil bath,
Steam bath
Steam bath, steam bath,
Thermometer
Thermometer, thermometer,
Tap (valve)
Tap (valve) , steam nozzle,
Vacuum adaptor
Vacuum adaptor, vacuum adapter,
Liebig condenser (long)
Liebig condenser (long), long condenser, condenser, Liebig condenser, water-cooled,
Liebig condenser (short)
Liebig condenser (short), short condenser, condenser, Liebig condenser, water-cooled,
Water faucet
Water faucet, water faucet,
Büchner flask
Büchner flask, Büchner flask, vacuum flask, filter flask, side-arm flask, Kitasato flask, suction flask,
Stemless funnel
Stemless funnel, stemless funnel,
Stemmed funnel
Stemmed funnel, stemmed funnel,
Separatory funnel
Separatory funnel, separatory funnel, separation funnel, separating funnel, sep funnel,
Heating mantle
Heating mantle, heating mantle, isomantle,
Hot plate
Hot plate, hot plate,
Gas tap
Gas tap, gas nozzle,
Folded filter paper
Folded filter paper, filter paper,
Y-Adaptor
Y-Adaptor, distillation adapter,
Claisen adapter
Claisen adapter, Claisen adapter,
Bunsen burner
Bunsen burner, Bunsen burner,
Büchner funnel
Büchner funnel, Buchner funnel,
Erlenmeyer flask, 25ml
Erlenmeyer flask, 25ml, Erlenmeyer flask,
Round-bottom flask, 50ml
Round-bottom flask, 50ml, boiling flask,
Round-bottom flask, 250ml
Round-bottom flask, 250ml, boiling flask,
Beaker 100ml, filled
Beaker 100ml, filled, beaker, Griffin beaker,
Beaker 100ml, empty
Beaker 100ml, empty, beaker, Griffin beaker,
Beaker 500ml, filled
Beaker 500ml, filled, beaker, Griffin beaker,
Beaker 500ml, empty
Beaker 500ml, empty, beaker, Griffin beaker,
Erlenmeyer flask 250ml, filled
Erlenmeyer flask 250ml, filled, Erlenmeyer flask, conical flask,
Erlenmeyer flask 250ml, empty
Erlenmeyer flask 250ml, empty, Erlenmeyer flask, conical flask,