Project Charter: specific goals, project scope, and the deliverables and time line followed. Innovation Map (Technology Readiness Assessment): An innovation map should be presented showing the new technologies (materials, process manufacturing, and product technologies) upon which the process/product is based.

Describe the market for the product and identify the principal competitors. Provide production levels and annual sales where available. Include sales projections for the new product.

Alternative process flow sheets should be presented with a discussion of the most promising flow sheets. Use of heuristics. Appropriate software tools may be used to evaluate the most promising flow sheets. Methods used to minimise the use of solvents and other mass separating agents as well as to minimise energy usage and waste should be described. Appropriate criteria to be selected to assess most promising flow sheets. Assembly of Database: The principal thermophysical and transport property data should be presented, together with chemical kinetics data and toxicity data with prices for the principal chemicals.

Preliminary identification of safety and environmental risks. Inherent safety considerations; resource consumption, waste and emissions production. Approximate Costing Methods: This section should provide estimates of the cost sheet of annual costs, the working capital and how it was estimated and the total capital investment required. Approximate profitability measures such as ROI or venture profit (VP) should be used.

Mass balance: The flows or quantities of all materials should be accounted. The design basis, in particular any assumptions or simplifications should be identified, justified and assessed for impact. Energy Balance and Utility Requirements: In describing most chemical processes, it is desirable to have a section that discusses the energy requirements of the process and the measures adopted to improve the plant economics and resource efficiency by energy and mass conservation. In this section all of the heating, cooling, power and other utility demands should be identified (with numerical values provided), and the methods of satisfying these demands shown. A pinch analysis may be applied to optimise the heat flows. The outcomes should be communicated graphically by a PFD, textually by a process description and numerically by mass and energy balance tables

Design calculations for batch processes, Gantt charts and scheduling, cycle times, time limiting equipment, regulatory environment, multivariate control

An opportunity for the design team to draw attention to the importance of sustainability, safety, health, environmental and ethical approaches in developing the process/product design. Application of relevant Best Available Techniques under the IPPC/industrial Emissions Directives for design, resource and energy use, reduction, treatment and abatement of emissions to air, water and land. Safety and health concerns. Application of HAZAN, HAZOP, LOPA. lLfe cycle assessment and sustainability metrics, pinch analysis. Techniques for analysing, throughout the lifecycle, the interaction of process, product and plant with the environment. Implications of site layout on economic, safety and environmental impacts.

Equipment Cost Summary, Fixed Capital Investment Summary: methods for estimating the fixed capital investment, beginning with the purchase costs. Business Case: rigorous measure of profitability (time value of money), cost of manufacture and economic analysis, cost sheets, cost of utilities. Working capital. Total capital investment. net present value and investor’s return on investment (discounted cash flow rate of return), depreciation schedule, annual cash flows, sensitivity analyses and optimisation.