Mini-plant Demonstration Integrated with Process Development and Final Commercial Design

In today’s competitive market, there is a push to accelerate the development of new products and processes, with shorter times from concept to commercialization. Reducing development time frequently means simultaneous execution of experimental and computational process development, and commercial design, with feedback across all the activities. Mini-plant piloting is a key step for demonstration and development of the full scale commercial process.

We will present an example of a project which resulted in a commercial design which includes a liquid phase reaction, vapor phase reaction, and multi-column distillation. The mini-plant demonstrated closed recycles, catalyst lifetime, in-spec product, and led to capital savings in the final commercial design.