procestekening

Procestekening is a term used in Dutch procesengineering for a technical drawing that depicts the sequence, interconnection and overall layout of a chemical or industrial process. The drawing highlights the major process units—such as reactors, distillation columns, heat exchangers, pumps and vessels—and shows how materials and energy flow between them through process streams and utility lines.

The procestekening provides a high-level view of the process, illustrating material flows, key operating conditions (temperatures, pressures, and rough flow rates) and the relative arrangement of equipment. It is typically part of a broader set of design drawings that may also include piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&ID), process flow diagrams (PFD) and plant layout drawings.

Users of procestekening include process engineers, designers, operators and safety engineers. It supports design reviews, installation planning, commissioning, operation training and maintenance planning by communicating how the process is supposed to work and where critical components are located.

Procestekening is a standard tool in process industries such as chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and food processing. It is created with computer-aided design (CAD) software and may be informed by process simulations or mass and energy balances to reflect realistic conditions.