PEARL

Process Engineering
Advanced Research Lab

Scale-Up Processes, Iterative Methods for the Chemical, Mineral and Biological Industries

November 5, 2021

News, Publications

Prof. Chaouki and Prof. Sotudeh-Gharebagh gathered all the essential and critical information about scale-up processes in this book.

Common scale-up methods are conventional where the blind piloting is essential. This imposes huge investment and leads to failures mostly in solid processing. However, the limitations of resources, current shortcomings, short time-to-market demand are forced companies to minimize piloting. With these situations in mind, current digitalization outlook and computational facilities, we proposed and developed a novel iterative scale-up method with case studies which highly expedites the process innovation through the following key sequences:

  • To move from literature and laboratory studies to commercial design.
  • To reduce risks by reevaluating literature, lab studies, e-pilot or adequate pilots if needed.
  • To iterate between commercial to lab, e-pilot and pilot with CAPEX, OPEX and LCA.