INSTALLATION OF A PILOT-PLANT UNIT

In principle, a courageous engineer might base a full-scale process on laboratory experiments and computer simulations. However, for this approach to be successful, all the process parameters should be known with great accuracy. This is not always the case. Therefore, the process is often designed on a half-large scale at first as the so-called pilot-plant unit. This can be used to obtain valuable information on process behavior, and mathematical models can be further refined through additional experiments. 

Once the previous steps have been successfully completed, the construction of the full-scale process can be initiated. At this stage, one still needs to return to the simulation and 

FIGURE 1.3 Factors governing the analysis and design of chemical reactors. 

Since the main focus of this text is on chemical reactors, chemical kinetics is briefly discussed (Chapter 2) in order to explain how the kinetic concept is implemented in reactor models. Heat and mass transfer effects along with flow modeling are treated in each chapter devoted to reactors (Chapters 3 throvxgh 8). 

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