Technology development is a resource intensive process.  It consists of progressing through laboratory, pilot, demonstration and commercial testing where each of these steps represent an order-of-magnitude increase in cost.  Confidence is often associated with larger-scale testing, but that is the place you get the least information.  It is the laboratory testing and modeling, when done well, that ultimately accelerates this larger-scale testing.  This presentation will cover two subjects:  1) application of catalyst deactivation fundamentals for accelerated catalyst aging, and 2) model-driven predictions of commercial performance using of results at different scales.  Reliable protocols for accelerated catalyst aging allow testing of full-cycle performance at the pilot scale in an abbreviated timeframe, even for systems where the natural turnaround cycle is measured in years.  The model-driven translation of results recognizes the physics of the process cannot necessarily be reproduced at sub-commercial scales and that performance even at pilot scale must be interpreted and not used directly.  Both of these approaches emphasize laboratory work where the insights come more quickly, efficiently and cost effectively.

Scaling up by successfully scaling down

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