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Community rules

Keep it useful, keep it respectful.

What the community is for

PlantCalcKit Community is a place for plant, process and utilities engineers to ask practical questions, share worked examples and help each other with calculations. It is not a place for product promotion, recruitment or off-topic content.

Posting guidelines

  • Be specific. Show your numbers, units, assumptions and what you have already tried.
  • Cite references. When you quote a method, name the source (Perry's, GPSA, an API standard, a textbook chapter).
  • No company data. Never post proprietary plant data, P&IDs, vendor calculation sheets or anything covered by an NDA.
  • One question per thread. If you have a follow-up, reply to the existing thread.
  • Accept answers. If a reply solves your question, mark it as the accepted answer so others can find it.
  • No spam, no self-promotion. Posts with more than three links are blocked. Irrelevant commercial posts will be removed.

Behaviour

  • Treat every member with respect, including those who are still learning.
  • No insults, threats, discrimination or harassment of any kind.
  • No illegal content or advice that could endanger safety.

Moderation

  • Your first two posts are held for review before they appear.
  • Any member can report a post. Reported posts are reviewed by a moderator.
  • Moderators can hide posts, lock threads and suspend accounts.
  • If your account is suspended, contact [email protected].

Content and copyright

By posting you grant PlantCalcKit a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to display your content on the site. You keep ownership of your work. Do not post copyrighted material you do not have permission to share.

Deleting your data

You can ask for your posts to be removed or your account to be deleted by emailing [email protected]. See our privacy policy for details of what data the community stores.