New process industry branches with innovative processes are now emerging: Green Hydrogen Production, Waste-to-Value, Renewable Chemicals for Textiles, and Sustainable Packaging Materials. Their innovative processes are often developed by start-up companies. These companies have enormously motivated and creative personnel, by which they solve all kinds of technical and financial problems.
However, I have noted that in some cases available knowledge on methods and industrial practices on process scale up are not known to these start-ups, by which process development hampers and even commercial scale start-up fails.
Here are search terms for available knowledge in the public domain to avoid this to happen:
Innovation Stage-Gate Models – The most common model contains the stages, Ideation, Concept, Feasibility, Development, Engineering-Procurement-Construction, Commissioning and Start-up. Some of these stages can be executed partly in parallel to speed-up the innovation.
Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) – TRL determination helps enormously in assessing new technologies to be purchased for the new process.
Functional Process Steps – Functional Process Steps help in making process concept designs revealing all functions needed and all essential process streams. These steps also help in deciding whether in integrated down-scaled pilot plant is needed for successful scale-up to commercial scale.
Critical Performance Phenomena – Critical Performance Phenomena of individual process unit operations, such as residence time distribution, mass transfer, and heat transfer help to select design methods and select a scale-up method.