For application at commercial scale, future work should be directed to additional practice to improve algal lipid yield per unit time.
Key priorities are the necessity to improve equipment performance, through researching at a commercial scale and further work on the best combinations of devices for each particular situation.
Traditional thinking is that scale-up only applies to either the design of a much larger facility (pilot plant or commercial plant) based on bench scale work or design of a commercial plant based on pilot plant work.
The process, which involves injecting a turbulent stream of high velocity air through the coal bed as it traverses the centrifuge basket, has recently been shown to work at commercial scale.
However, the view at the WPRL was that their work had not been adequately recognized: While the patient and brilliant experimental work of Laidlaw and Dunkin has been duly acclaimed, it is nevertheless desirable that tribute should be made to the associated workers of WPRL who have been able to translate laboratory experimental work into commercial scale production.
While the patient and brilliant experimental work of Laidlaw and Dunkin has been duly acclaimed, it is nevertheless desirable that tribute should be made to the associated workers of WPRL who have been able to translate laboratory experimental work into commercial scale production.
The company is building a five-megawatt facility to test whether its largely unproven technology can work on a commercial scale.
Calling the results "very significant," Dr. Alison Power, agricultural ecologist at Cornell University, said, "People have said that these kinds of ecological approaches wouldn't work on a commercial scale.
China's biggest electric company, the state-owned Huaneng Group, now aims to prove that the technology can work on a commercial scale by building the two pebble-bed reactors — each capable of meeting the residential power needs of an American city of 75,000 to 100,000 people.
Although technology for these boats has been around since the 1920s, no one has managed to make it work on a commercial scale.
