Industrial process scale-up a practical innovation guide from idea to commercial implementation
This book will help industrial process innovators in research, development and commercial start-up to assess the risks of commercial-scale implementation and provide them with practical guidelines and methods to reduce the risks to acceptable levels. The book can also be used in co-operation with...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Elsevier
2013.
Oxford : 2013. |
| Edition: | 1st edition |
| Series: | Gale eBooks
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628829006719 |
Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Industrial Process Scale-Up; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgement; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Purpose of the Book; 1.2 Scale-Up Definition; 1.3 Scale-Up Methodology; 1.4 Content Structure of the Book; 2 Process Industries Characteristics; 2.1 Industrial Players and Partners; 2.2 Supply and Value Chains; 2.2.1 Life Cycles; 2.3 Industrial Complexes; 2.4 Processes; 2.5 Unit Operations; 2.6 Major Process Equipment; 2.7 Transfer Phenomena; 2.8 Chemistry and Catalysis; 2.9 Types of Design in Innovation; 3 Ideation and Research Stages; 3.1 Ideation Stage
- 3.1.1 Sources of Ideas3.1.2 Early Technical Risk Assessment and the Role of Process Concept Design; 3.1.3 Early Stage Knowledge Gap Analysis and Risk Assessment; 3.1.4 Co-Operation with Innovation Partners; 3.1.5 Process Route Selection; 3.1.6 Ideation Stage-Gate Decision; 3.2 Research Stage; 3.2.1 Determining Potential Project Showstoppers; 3.2.2 Testing for Showstoppers; 3.2.3 Concept Design; 3.2.3.1 Role of Concept Design in Research Stage; 3.2.3.2 Guidelines; 3.2.3.2.1 Guidelines for Problem Definition; 3.2.3.2.2 Process Synthesis Hints; 3.2.3.3 Process Synthesis Design Using Functions
- 3.2.3.4 Reaction3.2.3.4.1 Reaction Cases with no By-Product Formation; 3.2.3.4.2 Reaction Cases with By-Product Formation by Consecutive Reactions; 3.2.3.4.3 Reaction Cases By-Products by Parallel Reactions; 3.2.3.4.4 Reaction Cases Specialty and Performance Products; 3.2.3.5 Separation; 3.2.3.6 Safe; 3.2.3.7 Socially Acceptable; 3.2.3.8 Low Cost; 3.2.3.9 Analysis; 3.2.3.10 Evaluation; 3.2.3.11 Reporting; 3.2.4 Role of Modelling and Simulation; 3.2.5 Essential Physical, Chemical and Thermodynamic Property Determination; 3.2.6 Research Stage-Gate Decision; 4 Development Stage
- 4.1 Mini-Plant Objectives and Design4.2 Pilot Plant Objectives and Design; 4.3 Cold-Flow Plant Objectives and Design; 4.4 Commercial Scale Process Design in Development Stage; 4.4.1 Design Base; 4.5 Development Gate Decision; 4.5.1 Risk Mitigation; 5 Demonstration Stage; 5.1 Rationale Demonstration Scale Process; 5.2 Execution Demonstration Stage; 6 Start-Up Commercial Processes; 6.1 Start-Up Time Prediction; 6.2 Start-Up Organisation; 6.2.1 Start-Up Leader; 6.2.2 Start-Up Team and Preparation; 6.3 Post-Start-Up Reporting; 7 Scale-Up of Unit Operations
- 7.1 Critical Success Factors for Unit Operations and Equipment7.2 Scale-Up Methods for Unit Operations; 7.2.1 Brute Force Scale-Up and Scale-Down Method; 7.2.2 Model-Based Scale-Up Method; 7.2.3 Empirical Scale-Up; 7.2.4 Empirical-Model Hybrid Scale-Up; 7.2.5 Direct Scale-Up; 7.3 Scale-Up of Most Used Unit Operations; 7.3.1 Adiabatic Fixed Bed Reactors; 7.3.1.1 Design of Fixed Bed Laboratory Reactors; 7.3.2 Space Velocity; 7.3.3 Catalyst Sample Representativeness; 7.3.4 Catalyst Loading; 7.3.5 Initial Feed Distribution; 7.3.6 Reactor Diameter; 7.3.7 Length of Catalyst Bed
- 7.3.8 Mass Transfer Limitations
