(115a) Best Practices in the Design and Fabrication of Pilot and Demonstration Plants

Zeton Inc. has specialized in the design and fabrication of pilot plants and scale-up of process technology for over twenty years.  Zeton has developed many best practices related to the design and fabrication of pilot plants.  These include unique project execution and management approaches that save costs and shave months off project schedules, and safety systems appropriate for pilot scale plants.

This paper will discuss these methodes for pilot plant design and fabrication and relate them to the changes in scale and the demands on pilot and demonstration plants that have occurred in recent years.