Escalamiento de procesos químicos y bioquímicos basado en un modelo fenomenológico

Abstract

In this work a method for the scaling of chemical and biochemical processes based on a phenomenological model is presented. Concepts such as operating point and operating regime of a process are defined to propose a tool based on control theory to process scaling, the Hankel matrix. This methodology was applied to a fermenter for producing ethanol from glucose syrup. The values of the design parameters gave errors below 10% when they are compared with values reported in the literature for both laboratory scaling and for an industrial scale.