Examples of Process Scale-up (and scale-down) Experience

• DF2 reactor 20X scale-up
• MV31 1 liter Parr to 40 gallon Hastelloy and to 1200 gallon Hastelloy
• Vinyl MM cracking 2 liter glass to 75 gallon Stainless Steel
• Fuel cell monomer 1 liter Parr to 40 gallon Hastelloy
• FC inert 24” batch to 3” continuous distillation
• BB, 4 column continuous to 3 column batch, 3 column batch to 4 column continuous
• OSCL, 8000 gallon batch to 2 gallon continuous pilot
• OSCL, 2 gallon continuous to 600 gal continuous
• PFDCO, 1 liter to 300 gallon batch,
• PFDCO, 1” batch to 4” continuous distillation columns
• C8 acid, tripling batch reactor throughput
• C8 acid, tripling semi-batch distillation rate
• OSF, 6000 gallon batch to 2 gallon pilot
• OSF, 2 gallon continuous to 400 gallon continuous
• Extraction, large batch to 10 stage continuous
• C8 Extraction from inerts, 3” pilot to 24” continuous
• Distillation, 1” batch lab to 18 inch continuous
• Distillation, 1’ batch lab to 12” continuous
• Falling film evaporator from batch data
• Wiped film evaporator from lab data
• 40 amp electrochemical cell to 2000 amp
• 20,000 amp electrochemical cell to 32,000 amp
• Lab batch reaction to in 12’ wide carpet web
• 1 foot foam applicator VacSlot to 15 foot wide lines
• 1” glass distillation of inerts to 2” x 80 feet continuous
• 3 steps in nitrile vinyl ether, lab to pilot
• Polymer synthesis, EO/PO, lab to 2000 gallon
• 18 alcohol fractionation, dry-lab to 6 pilot columns
• 18 alcohol fractionation, 6 pilot to 10 columns
• Purification of ABE fermentation broth by extraction
• Wood Pyrolysis to make bio-oil and carbon fuel
• 5 KiloWatt-Hour to 1 MegaWatt-Hour flow battery to store electricity