«The DemoSNG plant shows that our concept also works in a large -
scale pilot plant.»
LITHIUM Australia has advanced front - end engineering and design studies on its SiLeach large -
scale pilot plant as it seeks to prove its SiLeach hydrometallurgical process can operate at a commercial scale.
The 100 % Northern Minerals owned project will operate as a large -
scale pilot plant for three years, with the goal of expanding into one of the world's only significant suppliers for critical heavy rare earths outside of China.
Not exact matches
Local explorer Northern Minerals plans to build a test
pilot plant at its Browns Range project near Halls Creek at a cost of about $ US18 million ($ A25 million), rather than proceeding with full -
scale development in light of the depressed rare earths market.
In addition, Lithium Australia will be issued with up to a further 4m MetalsTech shares and 3m options subject to a number of milestones being met including bench
scale testing,
pilot plant testing, feasibility, offtake,
plant construction and production performance.
It will also support to the industrial partners in the development of packages at
pilot plant scale.
«We take their materials and run them at a
pilot plant scale.
The
pilot plant can process different formulas in a small
scale until it is refined for commercial production.
The new facility features a
pilot plant that will enable the company's scientists and engineers to test new ideas on a factory
scale.
And there is no need to worry about what happens when you
scale up production, since our
pilot plant precisely replicates the conditions of a full -
scale line.
The
pilot plant allowed us to see the chemistry on a much smaller
scale, between that of the lab, which we are used to, and the industrial
scale, allowing us to better understand the large
plant.
But the folks at Changing World Technologies, the company behind the process of changing waste into oil, must first prove they can successfully
scale up from a 7 - ton - per - day
pilot plant in Philadelphia to a 200 - ton - per - day industrial
plant in Carthage, Missouri.
Before working at United Brands, Saulo had never worked with the large -
scale lines and machinery like those found in
pilot plants.
Therefore, in a project funded by both the UFZ and the German Ministry of Education and Research, the UFZ built a
pilot -
scale research
plant in Langenreichenbach (Saxony, Germany).
In - house
pilot -
plant facilities allow
scale - up of processes and products for fast commercial development — something, Evans says, that is more problematic in European academe.
BNFL, which runs a
pilot MOX fabrication
plant and plans to begin full -
scale production in 1997, has already flown MOX fuel to Switzerland.
The company expects to begin operation of an internal
pilot plant in 2009 and an external
pilot plant in 2010, with a large -
scale demonstration
plant projected for 2011.
The NYT picked up on the Lockheed Martin press release about the grant from the US Department of Energy to «demonstrate a cold water pipe fabrication approach using modern fiberglass technology and recent low - cost composite material manufacturing methods at prototype and
pilot plant scales ``.
It is now looking for industry partners that could
scale up the process in a
pilot plant.
First
pilot -
scale plants (up to 500 kWth) have been built and successfully tested.
An Austrian company, Gaskoks, obtained the technology from the South African Agricultural Engineers; the company erected the first biodiesel
pilot plant in November 1987, and the first industrial -
scale plant in April 1989 (with a capacity of 30,000 tons of canola rapeseed per annum).
Modeling, Validation, and Performance Analysis of a
Pilot Scale Solar Thermal Power
Plant in Louisiana
Latest examples include solar water splitting using ferrites at 100 kWth power level [3] and subsequent
scaling up to 750 kWth at the Plataforma Solar de Almería (PSA); thermal dissociation of ZnO as part of the two - step ZnO / Zn cycle in a 140 kWth solar reactor at the MegaWatt Solar Furnace in Odeillo, France [4]; and steam gasification of low - grade coal and carbonaceous waste in a 150 kWth solar
pilot plant at PSA [5].
As you are aware normal development proceeds from laboratory
scale to
pilot plant to semiworks to comercial
scale.
Broad experience in
pilot plant,
scale - up and commercialization of new products using stage gate process.
Conducted research and development of processes and products with several significant accomplishments in industrial R&D, including
pilot plant and
scale - up and product development.