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Food Processing Plant Design & Layout - Lesson 9. Experimentation in Pilot Plant

The pilot plant is a smaller physical model of an industrial plant used to obtain information and data. It allows testing of new products and processes before full-scale implementation. The pilot plant can optimize processes, evaluate raw materials and products, develop new technologies, and conduct market testing of determined product amounts. It must have geometric, kinematic and dynamic similarity to the industrial plant. The minimum size is set by needs for quality analysis, while the maximum is for market acceptance testing.

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Food Processing Plant Design & Layout - Lesson 9. Experimentation in Pilot Plant

The pilot plant is a smaller physical model of an industrial plant used to obtain information and data. It allows testing of new products and processes before full-scale implementation. The pilot plant can optimize processes, evaluate raw materials and products, develop new technologies, and conduct market testing of determined product amounts. It must have geometric, kinematic and dynamic similarity to the industrial plant. The minimum size is set by needs for quality analysis, while the maximum is for market acceptance testing.

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The pilot plant is a physical model and should be a “copy” of the
Current course
corresponding industrial unit, with equipment scaled down in size
Food Processing Plant
Design & Layout to approximately 1/100 – 1/10 of the modelled unit.
Participants
General
Module- 1. Pilot plant experiments serve to obtain more information and data in the
Introduction of food following areas:
plant design and ...
Module- 2. Location 1. Marketsurvey: A determined new product amount can be produced
and site selection
for food pl...
in the pilot plant, to test its acceptance and to decide whether it
Module- 3. Food
would be economically profitable.
plant size, utilities
and services 2. Designdata: The behaviour of a given operation or unit process can
Module- 4. Food be found under conditions impossible to duplicate in the laboratory.
plant layout
Introduction, 3. Products and raw materials: A pilot plant is usually needed to
Plannin... characterize food products and to evaluate the development of
Lesson 7. Plant certain raw materials into specific products.
Layout
Lesson 8. Layout 4. Optimization data of a running plant.
Design
Procedure 9.1 Size and structure of the pilot plant
Lesson 9.
Experimentation The most important criterion in determining the size and form of a pilot
in Pilot Plant
plant is the principle of similarity, a principle first formulated by
Module- 5. Symbols
used for food plant
Newton.
design and ...
If, fluids are handled in the pilot plant, three types of similarities
Module- 6. Food
processing involved in fluid dynamics must be included:
enterprise and
engineer... 1. Geometricsimilarity: Both the pilot plant and food processing plant
Module- 7. Process should have the same physical form or at least the same geometric
scheduling and dimension relationships.
operation
Module 8. Building 2. Kinematic similarity: The same velocity relationships should exist in
materials and
construction
both the pilot and food processing plants.
19 April - 25 April 3. Dynamic similarity: In both the pilot and food processing plants, the
26 April - 2 May same force relationships should exist. For example, the turbulence
Courses
regime should be similar on both scales when fluids are handled.
If the process simulated in a pilot plant involves chemical the following
similarities apply:
1. Thermal similarity.
2. Chemical and biochemical similarity.
9.1.1 Minimum and Maximum Size
Several factors can affect the size of a pilot plant. In general, the
minimum size is set by the minimum product amount required for
quality analytical control.
The maximum size of the pilot plant is set by the amount of processed
product needed in order to test market acceptance.
9.2 Types and application
When product production in amounts large enough to conduct market
acceptance tests is required, the pilot plant is called a semi-commercial
plant.
The most common applications of a pilot plant are as follows:
1. Product studies
Quality characterization
Influence of process conditions on product quality
Development of new products
Studies of market acceptance
Raw material characterization
Evaluation of aptitude for industrialization of different raw
materials
Setting the most suitable process conditions from an economic point
of view (cost minimization) and a product quality point of view (to
obtain a product of given quality). Process technology is optimized.
Study of process equipment alternatives to carry out given food
processing steps or unit operations.
Development of new process technology.
Development of new process engineering or process equipment.
Reliable evaluation of mass and energy balances and food physical
properties
Study of energy recovery possibilities in process systems
2. Raw material studies
3. Process technology and engineering studies
4. Auxiliary system requirement studies
Improvement and evaluation of alternatives for control systems

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