How much is the electricity and/or heat consumption expected to decrease when I scale up from bench-, to pilot- and demonstration scale? Does a handbook or a practical guide exist for scaling up?
For scaling up plant design and processes, I recommend the following textbook which I used in teaching the capstone chemical engineering course (CENG-416) at Yale University:
Peters, Timmerhaus, and west (2003). Plant Design and Economics for Chemical Engineers - 5th edition, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company.
Hope you find this information useful and good luck.
For scaling up plant design and processes, I recommend the following textbook which I used in teaching the capstone chemical engineering course (CENG-416) at Yale University:
Peters, Timmerhaus, and west (2003). Plant Design and Economics for Chemical Engineers - 5th edition, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company.
Hope you find this information useful and good luck.
It seems to me you are asking about the amount of heat loss expected when you scale up a gasification process.
I find the question confusing because you also refer to consuming heat or electricity. I generally think of gasification as partial or even complete combustion of Hydrocarbons which is exothermic and doesn't require heat addition.
The real question seems to be "how much will the relative amount of heat loss through vessel vs process heat decrease when you scale up". Heat lost through a vessel wall is primarily lost is conduction which is modelled as delta H = UA delta T. You can minimize heat loss by insulating to effectively decrease U or by decreasing the surface area A. Scaling up reduces the relative amount of heat lost due to conduction because the Area (A) and therefore the relative heat loss usually goes down when expressed as a fraction of the total amount of heat released vua combustion.
I hope my response is helpful but I believe you need to rephrase your question.
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