Skip to Main Content
Industrial Process Scale-up
book

Industrial Process Scale-up

by Jan Harmsen
April 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
112 pages
3h 9m
English
Elsevier
Content preview from Industrial Process Scale-up
Chapter 6

Start-Up Commercial Processes

6.1 Start-Up Time Prediction

The start-up of a commercial scale process is very risky. If the start-up is slower than anticipated, then customers not receiving their feedstock will suffer financial consequences because they in turn will not be able to satisfy their customers. Also often inside the firm it will cause problems, because no or less money will be obtained, extra cost will be made and often other processes at the same industrial complex, relying on intake of by-products or utilities from the new process, will also show lower productivity. This means that first of all the start-up time has to be estimated well in advance and secondly that the start-up has to be well prepared to stay within that ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Process Industries 2

Process Industries 2

Jean-Pierre Dal Pont, Marie Debacq
Techniques of Model-Based Control

Techniques of Model-Based Control

Coleman Brosilow, Babu Joseph

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780444627261