Modular engineering of conventional plants

Although it is expected that 25 % of future process plants in chemical and pharmaceutical industries will be built utilizing modular fabrication and automation by 2030, the question arises how to leverage the potential of modular automation for the remaining process plants. This contribution will show a concept of a modular engineering approach for conventional process plants, based on Module Type Package (MTP) and so-called Function Modules. The concept has been validated with an oil and gas use case which has been reviewed in several workshops.