Preface
I have a long career of 33 years in Shell on processes for oil refining, bulk chemicals, biomass refining, biotechnology and fine chemicals and also worked in every innovation stage – exploratory research, process research, process development, process design, process start-ups and process de-bottlenecking.
I have seen many failures in each innovation step from idea to commercial implementation. I searched many times the literature to see what is available to prevent these failures from happening, but found only a few articles describing only a few critical elements for successful process innovation and scale-up.
When I started my own consultancy company I gave a course on sustainable process design, which included a section on scale-up. ...
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