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 DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software extended with powerful tools of Flowcharts Solution from the "Diagrams" 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 Industrial 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 DIAGRAM.

Process Flow Graphics

Process flow diagrams are applied in industrial engineering, manufacturing, business, project management, chemical engineering, process engineering, and other areas. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software extended with Chemical and Process Engineering solution provides powerful drawing tools and extensive features to create Process flow graphics, analyze, streamline, and improve business processes and construction designs. Use it to give an overview and document the overall processes, standardize and make their understanding simpler, improve quality control and training of employees, increase process efficiency, and make changes if required.

Chemical Engineering Flow Chart

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM enhanced with Chemical and Process Engineering solution is for all professional chemists, students, lectors, and other stakeholders. Design efficiently the Process flowcharts to standardize and visualize chemical processes, chemical structures, chemical reactions, chemical technologies, document chemistry research, predict properties and effects, and streamline processes. Use effectively a series of predesigned symbols and notations from the solution libraries corresponding to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

Flowchart Software

Flowchart is a simple diagram, map or graphical schematic representation the sequence of actions within a process. It is ideal for displaying how a process currently flows or can function ideally. The Flowcharts let define the steps and boundaries of a process, uncover problems or miscommunications. The Flowcharts are widely used in education, software development, business, economics, thanks to their visuality they are ideal for presentations, reports, for using on conferences to help the audience comprehend the content better, or easy find flaws in a process flow diagrams. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is professional flowcharts software and feature-rich flowchart maker, which supports Mac OS X and Windows. It contains at ConceptDraw Solution Park a rich set of stencils and professional flowchart symbols for design. It lets create simply professional-looking Flowcharts based on thousand free flowchart templates, colored symbols and examples. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is a 3 times cheaper alternative to MS Visio available for both Mac and PC. It’s is another full featured business and technical diagramming application that can easily take care of Visio files within OS X. Another bonus with ConceptDraw DIAGRAM – it's cross-platform. You can work on a document in both OS X and Windows, skipping Visio entirely.

How to Build a Flowchart

Flowchart Examples

It’s very simple, convenient and quick to design professional looking Flowcharts of any complexity using the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software extended with Flowcharts Solution from the "Diagrams" Area of ConceptDraw Solution Park which provides a wide set of predesigned objects, templates, samples and Flowchart examples.

Types of Flowcharts

A Flowchart is a graphical representation of process, algorithm, workflow or step-by-step solution of the problem. It shows the steps as boxes of various kinds and connects them by arrows in a defined order depicting a flow. There are twelve main Flowchart types: Basic Flowchart, Business Process Modeling Diagram (BPMN), Cross Functional Flowchart, Data Flow Diagram (DFD), IDEF (Integrated DEFinition) Flowchart, Event-driven Process Chain (EPC) Diagram, Influence Diagram (ID), Swimlane Flowchart, Process Flow Diagram (PFD), Specification and Description Language (SDL) Diagram, Value Stream Mapping, Workflow Diagram. Using the Flowcharts solution from the Diagrams area of ConceptDraw Solution Park you can easy and quickly design a Flowchart of any of these types. This solution offers a lot of special predesigned vector symbols for each of these widely used notations. They will make the drawing process of Flowcharts much easier than ever. Pay also attention for the included collection of ready Flowchart examples, samples and quick-start templates. This is business process improvement tools. If you are looking for MS Visio for your Mac, then you are out of luck, because it hasn't been released yet. However, you can use Visio alternatives that can successfully replace its functions. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is an alternative to MS Visio for Mac that provides powerful features and intuitive user interface for the same.

How to Simplify Flow Charting

Chemical and Process Engineering

Extending the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and drawing software with process flow diagram symbols, samples, process diagrams templates and libraries of design elements for creating process and instrumentation diagrams, block flow diagrams, process flow diagrams, and piping and instrumentation diagrams for chemical and process engineering, the Chemical and Process Engineering solution can be used by both chemical and project engineers, as well as the chemists for creating the needed drawings.

Process Flow Chart Examples

Process Flow Chart is a visual illustration of overall flow of activities in producing a product or service. How do you make a Process Flow Chart usually? Drawing process flow charts, diagrams and maps is quite complex and lengthy process, especially if you draw free-hand. But now thanks to the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software extended with Flowcharts solution from the "Diagrams" area of ConceptDraw Solution Park this process became simple and fast. A confirmation of this can serve many Process Flow Chart examples included in Flowcharts solution.

Flow Chart Diagram Examples

Draw your own business process flowcharts using ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and business graphics software.

Flow Chart in Chemistry

Flow charts are widely used in chemistry and simplify the understanding of the chemical processes, basic structure of a system, its components, and interactions, materials flow throughout a process. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software extended with Chemical and Process Engineering solution is the easiest for using a multifunctional diagramming tool, which helps to create a Flow Chart in chemistry, Chemistry diagrams of any type, and Chemistry flow diagrams with ease. Illustrate any chemical processes in minutes.

Example Process Flow Chart

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Flow Chart Template

Templates are very useful and convenient tool for fast and easy drawing various diagrams, charts, and also flowcharts. It is the excellent news that ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software extended with Flowcharts Solution from the "Diagrams" Area offers wide collection of various predesigned flowchart samples and flow chart template.

Process Engineering

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software supplied with Chemical and Process Engineering Solution from the Industrial Engineering Area of ConceptDraw Solution Park is powerful and effective process engineering software.

Education Mind Maps

This solution extends ConceptDraw MINDMAP software with scientific and educational mind maps for educational documents, presentations, and websites.

Oil and Gas

The Oil and Gas solution for ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software provides vector libraries of oil and gas symbols and a collection of samples for quick and simple designing of the oil and gas industry infographics, illustrations, presentations, diagrams. The resulting oil and gas graphics and illustrations help to clearly and quickly detail complex information. They are ideal for reporting on the development of best practices in oil and gas exploration and production. Use them to illustrate growth strategies and trends in the oil industry, conduct analysis, forecast the energy industry, and present the results of international energy forums.

Laboratory equipment - Vector stencils library

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

Oil bath

Steam bath

Thermometer

Tap (valve)

Vacuum adaptor

Liebig condenser (long)

Liebig condenser (short)

Water faucet

Büchner flask

Stemless funnel

Stemmed funnel

Separatory funnel

Heating mantle

Hot plate

Gas tap

Folded filter paper

Y-Adaptor

Claisen adapter

Bunsen burner

Büchner funnel

Erlenmeyer flask, 25ml

Round-bottom flask, 50ml

Round-bottom flask, 250ml

Beaker 100ml, filled

Beaker 100ml, empty

Beaker 500ml, filled

Beaker 500ml, empty

Erlenmeyer flask 250ml, filled

Erlenmeyer flask 250ml, empty

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Science and education >

Chemistry

Chemical Process Flow Diagram

Chemical and Process Engineering solution for ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software is an innovative and sustainable solution with an extensive selection of vector stencils and icons useful to create a Chemical Process Flow Diagram of any complexity easily and quickly. Visualize both simple and complex chemical engineering processes, identify the process needs, illustrate start and end points, all activities that will be involved, and the sequence of steps; document, standardize, and analyze the processes at the enterprise, realize compliance control of your process flows, create comprehensive reports, improve communication among the team members working on a project.

Process flow diagram - Typical oil refinery

This is a schematic process flow diagram of the processes used in a typical oil refinery.
This process flow diagram (PFD) example was redesigned from the Wikimedia Commons file: RefineryFlow.png. [commons.wikimedia.org/ wiki/ File:RefineryFlow.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 downstream side of the petroleum industry." [Oil refinery. Wikipedia]
The PFD example "Process flow diagram - Typical oil refinery" was created 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)

Used Solutions

Engineering >

Chemical and process engineering

Natural gas condensate - PFD

This PFD sample was redesigned from the Wikipedia file: NaturalGasCondensate.png.
"This is a schematic flow diagram of a typical facility for separating and recovering liquid condensate from raw natural gas."
[en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ File:NaturalGasCondensate.png]
"Natural-gas condensate is a low-density mixture of hydrocarbon liquids that are present as gaseous components in the raw natural gas produced from many natural gas fields. It condenses out of the raw gas if the temperature is reduced to below the hydrocarbon dew point temperature of the raw gas.
The natural gas condensate is also referred to as simply condensate, or gas condensate, or sometimes natural gasoline because it contains hydrocarbons within the gasoline boiling range. Raw natural gas may come from any one of three types of gas wells:
(1) Crude oil wells - Raw natural gas that comes from crude oil wells is called associated gas. This gas can exist separate from the crude oil in the underground formation, or dissolved in the crude oil.
(2) Dry gas wells - These wells typically produce only raw natural gas that does not contain any hydrocarbon liquids. Such gas is called non-associated gas.
(3) Condensate wells - These wells produce raw natural gas along with natural gas liquid. Such gas is also non-associated gas and often referred to as wet gas." [Natural-gas condensate. Wikipedia]
The process flow diagram example "Natural gas condensate - PFD" was drawn using the ConceptDraw PRO software extended with the Chemical and Process Engineering solution from the Chemical and Process Engineering area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

Process flow diagram (PFD)

Used Solutions

Engineering >

Chemical and Process Engineering

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