(33a) Pilot Plant Controlling Regimes and Scale-up Similitude
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
2013
2013 Spring Meeting & 9th Global Congress on Process Safety
Process Development Division
Challenges in Process Scale-Up, Part I
Monday, April 29, 2013 - 2:05pm to 2:35pm
We seldom determine the operating regime that controls a pilot plant. Thus, we may choose an inappropriate similarity when scaling to and designing a commercial-sized plant with pilot plant data.
This presentation discusses the need to determine the operating regime controlling a pilot plant and it shows how that controlling regime dictates the similarities used when designing a commercial-sized plant.