Mini plant technology

Even though the individual unit operations have been optimized experimentally and/or arithmetically, this does not naturally mean that the whole plant will run perfectly. The linking of the individual stages may lead to additional controlengineering problems. Here the so-called mini plant technology /2.23/ has become... 

The above remarks throw a critical view onto the contemporary efforts to simulate entire chemical processes on the smallest possible scale. Beyond all doubt, this technology can produce the proof about the feasibility of a synthesis. In addition, all process steps carried out in a homogeneous medium and dependent on micro-mixing, will be correctly executed on the micro-scale. Furthermore, the scale-dependent process steps will also be carried out in a satifactory manner on the micro-scale, because their scale-dependence could not express itself. But from these results no statement concerning the scale-up can be made In other words Mini-plants are not suitable to gain any scale-up rules for scale-dependent steps. 

Based on promising results obtained in a lab-scale unit the design was made of a mini-plant with a capacity of 20 kg of biomass per hour. The mini-plant included air enrichment by membrane separation technology. 

Several standard DNA isolation kits are commercially available, including the QIAamp DNA Stool Mini Kit and the DNeasy Plant Mini Kit made by Qiagen. Both of these products are based on silica gel membrane technology and allow for the extraction of total DNA from processed foods and raw foodstuffs, respectively. In... 

We are now starting to see FDA approval of food products from biotechnology. These are listed in Table II. There are a number of plant products currently on the market which have been developed through the application of recombinant DNA technology. Two varieties of tomatoes, mini red peppers and two variations of carrots are currently available in supermarkets. The Flavr-Savr tomato was introduced in early 1994 later the crooked neck squash was approved. Although it is too early to assess the ultimate commercial success of these ventures, initial acceptance of the Flavr-Savr tomato in California was well above expectation. 

Technological Cbncept for a Mini-Fertilizer Plant With integration of the... 

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