Pilot plants design

PALLUZi Pilot Plant Design, Construction, and Operation... 

Pilot-plant design specifications should be estabUshed only after careful consideration of the experimental program because decisions on the accuracy of instmments, analyzers, and other equipment should be based on the requirements of the experiments planned for the unit. FlexibiUty and versatihty ate important but costly when provided unnecessarily or too profusely they can result in a unit that is difficult or impossible to operate successfully... 

Table Y. HYGAS Methanation Pilot Plant Design Conditions0...

Catalytic methanation in the Hygas pilot plant, design and operation of. 123... 

Synthane A coal gasification process using steam and oxygen in a fluidized bed. An unusual feature is the large volume of hot gas recycled. Developed by the U.S. Bureau of Mines from 1961. A pilot plant, designed by the C. E. Lummus Company, was built at Bruceton, PA, in 1976. 

A consideration of dynamics should be factored into the design of a plant at an early stage, preferably during pilot-plant design and operation. It is often easy and inexpensive in the early stages of a project to design a piece of process equipment so that it is easy to control. If the plant is designed with little or no consideration of dynamics, it may take an elaborate control system to try to make the most of a poor situation. 

Engineering Aspects of Process Scale-Up and Pilot Plant Design... 

Pilot Plant Design, Experiments, and Results. Design of the pilot plant scale-up was based upon the earlier study involving quinaldic acid breakthrough. Because this compound may represent a worst case, other factors must be considered. 

R. P. Palluzi, Pilot Plants Design, Construction and Operation, McGraw Hill Book Co., Inc., New York, 1992. 

Safety - [SALICYLIC ACID AND RELATED COMPOUNDS] (Vol 21) -and maintenance [MAINTENANCE] (Vol 15) -m pilot-plant design [PILOT PLANTS] (Vol 19)... 

The results of a 300-gallon-per-day experimental unit have been utilized to design a 15,000-gallon-per-day pilot plant. Design parameters and calculations are elaborated in the following sections. 

By paying particular attention to FCC pilot plant design and operating procedures, feedstocks containing significant amounts of residue can be successfully processed in a small-scale unit. The critical aspects can be itemized as follows ... 

In addition, early in the program, process design engineering for commercial-scale plants was initiated. Cold models were also used effectively to develop the pilot-plant design and then to prove out elements of the commercial-scale design. 

The C,-fraction of naphtha crackers is used as a feedstock in the Mitsubishi fluid bed process for the production of maleic anhydride. This process was commercialized in 1970. Many data related to this process including the catalyst screening, laboratory experiments, pilot plant design, reactor behaviour and the development of higher selectivity catalysts may be found in the patent literature (12-17).The patents thus give a nearly complete picture of the scale-up process. The data have been used in the present investigation to test the fluid bed reactor model. 

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