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The chemical process industry uses many different types of equipment to manufacture products. At first glance a process plant may just look like a pile of metal and a maze of pipes. In this procedure we will take a closer look and get a better understanding of what type of process equipment is involved. Although there is a wide variety of equipment, they can all be broken down into two basic categories.

Rotary and Stationary

Some of the equipment covered will be Drivers and Driven Equipment, Gear Boxes, Power Transmissions, Electric Motors, Centrifugal Pumps, Positive Displacement Pumps, Compressors, Steam Turbines, Piping, Storage Tanks, Valves, Filters, Heat Exchangers, Cooling Towers, Boilers, Furnaces, Reactors, and Distillation Columns.