Design Basis Template
A process plant is only ever as good as the thinking done before the first line is drawn.
After 30+ years in metallurgy, I've come to believe the most expensive mistakes on a project aren't made on the construction site or during commissioning. They're made — or quietly avoided — in the design basis.
Get that one document right and every decision downstream stands on solid ground. Leave it vague, rushed, or undocumented, and you spend the next two years (and a great deal of capital) paying for it.
That's why I wrote MINERAL PROCESS PLANT DESIGN: From Exploration to Commissioning.
It follows the full arc of a project — orebody characterisation, testwork, flowsheet development, design criteria, equipment selection, utilities, and the run-up to a plant that actually reaches nameplate — written in the language of the people who have to make it work.
To give you a running start, I'm sharing the Design Basis template I use, as a free download.
It's the controlling document for any plant design: ore characteristics and production schedule, throughput build-up, process design criteria, equipment sizing, utilities, environmental and regulatory criteria, assumptions, and sign-off — structured, with guidance notes, ready to populate with your own project data.
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