Nooo, determining proper equipments is basically sizing pumps, valves, reliefs, distillation columns - how much X should go into Y before anything bad happens (explosion because of unwanted reactions). HAHAH but yeah, at the end of the day, it's pretty mundane naman.
Btw, is your username inspired by dragonfly games? yung distributor dati ng SF, hahaha naalala ko lang.