Objective:

Upon completion of this course, participants will have a good understanding of:

>How to carry out successful process translations from the laboratory to the pilot plant project.
>How to operate pilot plants.
>Scale-up criteria for several unit processes.
>How to use the data from pilot plants for the design of commercial plants.

Description:

This course is designed to provide basic concepts and practical advice on how to perform laboratory and pilot plant studies and scale-up toward commercial plant for process translation of many unit processes in the field of chemical industries. The course will provide strategies for approaching a pilot plant study, improving and justifying a pilot plant study, and process scaling. Emphasis throughout the course will be on many fluid, mass, heat, and simultaneous mass and heat unit processes. This includes mixers, heat exchangers, absorbers, evaporators, dryers, reactors and bio reactors and other unit processes

Outline:

>Pilot plant definition and design
>Similitude and Criteria for Scale-up
>Mixing equipments scale-up
>Scale-up of solid-liquid filters
>Scale-up of industrial evaporators
>Scale-up of Polymerization Reactors
>Scale-up of industrial dryers
>Scale-up of distillation columns
>Scale-up of packed-bed columns

Engineers and scientists employed in the chemical, petrochemical and biochemical industries and who are involved with pilot plants, pilot plant studies, and process translation will benefit from this course. The novice will be quickly brought “up to speed” and the expert will be exposed to a detailed review of pilot plant studies and process translation. Process engineers, managers, process chemists, and biochemists involved in the following functions will benefit by attending: chemical reactor design, specialty chemical production, pilot plant operations, biotechnology and fermentation, food processing, pharmaceutical production, process and project design, and waste processing/waste minimization.