Lake bench

A bench-scale demonstration of this technology was conducted at the Port Hope Harbor on Lake Ontario, 100 km east of Toronto. According to the vendor, full commercialization of the technology is being delayed due to a lack of capital financing. 

Every day, one of the group would go and buy fresh bread from Fitzbillies, fruit and cheese from the market, while another made coffee on the gas ring in the comer of the bench. One day there was talk about anaerobic bacteria on the bottom of a lake in Russia and the origin of life, another, about Romanesque architecture in French villages, or Leonardo da Vinci s engines of war or about poetry or printing. We never knew to what enchanted land we would be taken next.45... 

David M. Angaran, David M. Angaran, Kathleen D. Lake, Pharm.D., Karen E. Bench, Pharm.D. 

Most of the effort at China Lake was directed toward demonstrating, at the bench scale, that polymer gasoline could indeed be made noncatalytically from the olefins formed by the selective pyrolysis of municipal solid waste (MSW). Funding for the bench-scale demonstration was provided by the Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory (IERL) of the Environmental Protection Agency, beginning in 1975 (EPA-IAG-D6-0781). 

Once the basic technology had been developed in bench scale and pilot plant equipment, it was necessary to demonstrate the novel technical features on a commercial scale. To do this, Cities Service elected to build a 2500-BPD unit at its Lake Charles refinery. This plant has been operating since 1963 and has fully demonstrated the novel technical features of the process. 

System 2. This system consists of a Model 501 supercritical fluid chromatograph (Lee Scientific, Salt Lake City, UT) and a Nicolet 20 SXC FT-IR spectrometer. The SFC/FT-IR interface is a prototype design containing a 600 urn I.D. by 5mm pathlength SFC/FT-IR flow-through cell, narrow band MCT detector, and optics designed to match the collimated beam from the main bench to the flow cell and detector. 

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