(129a) Safety Challenges and Objectives in Rapid Lab to Plant Scale-up
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
2022
2022 Spring Meeting and 18th Global Congress on Process Safety Proceedings
Process Development Division
Pilot Plant and Laboratory Safety
Tuesday, April 12, 2022 - 3:30pm to 4:00pm
Over the course of two years, Solugen Inc. went from lab proof-of-concept studies to building and starting up the world's first carbon-negative chemicals plant, using a proprietary chemienzymatic process. This talk will detail the inherent challenges in keeping a compressed timeline scale up safe and hazard free, from job walks on new laboratory techniques to PHAs and PSSRs on a first of its kind plant.