TABLE OF CONTENTS BY
VINCENT M. ALTAMURO President, VMA, Inc.
AINE M. BRAZIL Vice President, Thornton-Tomasetti/Engineers
WILLIAM L. GAMBLE Professor of Civil Engineering, University of lllinois at Urbana-Champaign
NORMAN GOLDBERG Consulting Engineer
ABRAHAM ABRAMOWITZ Consulting Engineer; Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus, The City College, The City University of New York
BENSON CARLIN President, O.E.M. Medical, Inc.
by Vincent M. Altamuro
REFERENCES: Hodson, Maynard s Industrial Engineering Handbook, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill. Cedarleaf, Plant Layout and Flow Improvement, McGraw-Hill. Immer, Materials Handling, McGraw-Hill. Rosaler, Standard Handbook of Plant Engineering, 2d ed., McGraw-Hill. Merritt and Ricketts, Building Design and Construction Handbook, McGraw-Hill.
Industrial plants serve many functions. They can:
1. Protect people, products, and equipment from the weather.
2. Preserve and conserve energy.
3. Condition the inside environment to be suitable for the processes, products, and people engaged therein.
4. Protect the outside environment from any fumes, dust, noise, or other contaminants their processes produce.
5. Provide physical security for their contents.
6. Block access, visual and/or physical, of those not authorized to see inside or enter them.
7. Provide the stable, strong, and smooth platform or surface required for operations.
8. Be the frameworks for the distribution networks of the services needed electric power, lights, fuels, compressed air, gases, steam, air conditioning, fire protection, water, drainage piping, communications.
9. Support the cranes, hoists, racks, and other lifting and holding equipment attached to their superstructures.
10. Be integral parts of equipment (such as drying ovens) by having one or more...
