Bench Scale Testing
Wastewater and water bench scale testing can be conducted at our laboratory facility or the customers designated test site.
Bench scale testing. The bench scale up process for a new facility involves the installation of one or many digital bench scales depending on the application and need. Bench scale testing of product recovery and waste treatment alternatives for distillery and brewery waste products for a central american beverage conglomerate. Bench scale testing is the first step in determining which technology can achieve a desired result and what realistic performance might be for a certain technology.
Typically bench scale is in a laboratory and uses systems that can t handle more than 50l at a time often much more per day depending on flow rates. The project team aspen aerogels university of akron ada es. Where the results of bench scale testing have indicated that a specific treatment process or a select group of treatment processes can offer effective treatment a pilot plant project may be warranted.
The use of and when assessing achievable processing performance for new processes. Bench scale testing on commercial bench scales can be performed with test weights owned by the operation but should also be periodically performed by a service technician. Bench scale and treatability testing.
Demonstration scale is essentially operating the equipment at full commercial feed rates over extended time periods to prove operational stability. Bench scale testing into the effectiveness of bioremediation approaches. Vertex routinely completes bench scale and treatability testing in our in house laboratory such as determining the relative effectiveness of different types of oxidants and testing the optimal dosing and or activation methods of oxidants to remediate contaminants at specific sites.
Many site bench scale testing. For batch processes in the pharmaceutical industry for example bench scale is typically conducted on samples 1 20 kg or less whereas pilot scale testing is performed with samples of 20 100 kg. The pilot and bench scale testing evaluate the effects of multiple disinfectants and oxidants the ability of coagulation granular activated carbon miex resin and membrane to remove nom and bromide ion and their combined impact on dbp formation nitrification potential and microbial regrowth.
It should be noted that bench scale testing is a snapshot of the process.