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Chemical Projects Scale Up

How to go from Laboratory to Commercial

  • 1st Edition - May 31, 2018
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Joe M. Bonem
  • Language: English

Chemical Projects Scale Up: How to Go from Laboratory to Commercial covers the chemical engineering steps necessary for taking a laboratory development into the commercia… Read more

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Description

Chemical Projects Scale Up: How to Go from Laboratory to Commercial covers the chemical engineering steps necessary for taking a laboratory development into the commercial world. The book includes the problems associated with scale up, equipment sizing considerations, thermal characteristics associated with scale up, safety areas to consider, recycling considerations, operability reviews and economic viability. In addition to the process design aspects of commercializing the laboratory development, consideration is given to the utilization of a development in an existing plant.

Key features

  • Explains how heat removal for exothermic reactions can be scaled up
  • Outlines how a reactor can be sized from batch kinetic data
  • Discusses how the plant performance of a new catalyst can be evaluated
  • Presents how the economics of a new product/process can be developed
  • Discusses the necessary evaluation of recycling in commercial plants

Readership

Chemists and chemical engineers in either undergraduate (senior level) or graduate level. Chemists or chemical engineers that for the first time in their careers are working on a project that is being commercialized. A check list for project managers who are concerned about the experience level of an organization that is charged with responsibility for a new project start-up

Table of contents

1. Potential Problems with Scaleup2. Equipment Design Considerations3. Developing Commercial Process Flow Sheets4. Thermal Characteristics for Reactor Scaleup5. Safety Considerations6. Recycle Considerations7. Supplier’s Equipment Scaleup8. Sustainability9. Project Evaluation10. Emerging Technology Contingency11. Other Uses of Study Design12. Scaling Up to Larger Commercial Sizes13. Defining and Mitigating Risk14. Typical Case Studies15. Epilogue: Final Words and Acknowledgements

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 2, 2018
  • Language: English

About the author

JB

Joe M. Bonem

Mr. Bonem’s highly productive five-decade career has included over three decades in Polymers manufacturing and process development with Exxon Chemical as well as 20 years in consulting. He is available for consulting in his areas of expertise. These areas include all phases of chemical engineering including Technology Transfer and Assimilation, Process Development and Scaleup, Project Basis Development and Process Design, Plant Performance Improvements and Safety Assessment of New and Existing Technology. Mr. Bonem is experienced in the development and mentoring of young engineers, and has extensive experience in working in foreign countries and cultures. He also has experience serving as an expert witness.
Affiliations and expertise
Owner, Process Engineering and Polymers Consulting

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