Industrial Process Scale-up: A Practical Innovation Guide from Idea to Commercial Implementation

by Jan Harmsen

Overview

This book will help industrial process innovators in research, development and commercial start-up to assess the risks of commercial-scale implementation and provide them with practical guidelines and methods to reduce the risks to acceptable levels. The book can also be used in co-operation with industrial R&D people and academic researchers to shape open innovation programs and in education as a reference book for process innovation courses.

• Offers easily accessible, step-by-step, and concise guidelines for industrial process scale-up
• Explains each stage of the innovation funnel: research, development, demonstration, commercial implementation for any process type and branch
• Based on industrial experiences and practices, which reduces the risks of commercial scale implementation of new processes to acceptable levels and reduces cost and time of process innovation
• Very clear, attractive layout, using text boxes that contain clarifying notes and additional information on specific topics, which makes it a quick reference of main subjects and additional information

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780444627391
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	04/25/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	112
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Dr. Jan Harmsen is currently Director of Harmsen Consultancy B.V. From 1996 to 2010 he was Principal Process Developer, Shell Technology Center Amsterdam. After thirty-three years of industrial experience in exploratory research, development, process design, and chemicals manufacturing, ir. Harmsen now successfully works as an independent consultant on innovation with sustainable development in view. He has published three books with Elsevier.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgement 1 Introduction 2 Process Industries Characteristics 3 Ideation and Research Stages 4 Development Stage 5 Demonstration Stage 6 Start-Up Commercial Processes 7 Scale-Up of Unit Operations 8 A Risk-Based Approach to Scale-Up of Amine Absorption Processes for CO2 Capture and Storage 9 Industrial Scale-Up Cases References

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Revised, updated and expanded guide on how to estimate and reduce the risks of commercial scale-up failure to an acceptable level

Editorial Reviews

"…will help industrial process innovators in research, development and commercial start-up to assess the risks of commercial-scale implementation and provide them with practical guidelines and methods to reduce the risks to acceptable levels…has a very clear, attractive layout, using text boxes that contain clarifying notes and additional information on specific topics…" —Water Conditioning & Purification, February 2014

"…a case study on amine absorption processes for CO2…is the best written chapter of all." —Organic Process Research & Development Journal, April 2014

"Writing for practitioners of industrial process design, the author presents technical and organizational guidance on the steps of process scale-up, from idea to implementation. He focuses in particular on risk reduction and increasing the chances of success. In addition to guidelines and methods, he includes case examples drawn from his own career in process development at Shell, as well as from publications by authors also experienced in industrial process scale-up." —ProtoView.com, February 2014

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