"If it doesn't scale-up, you have a mixing problem!"
That new product is ready to launch. You want
it to succeed right away. A bad first batch can cost thousands
of dollars and your boss will certainly not appreciate it. Why not have a
mixing expert audit your plans.
Key Benefits
Fewer missed batches/runs
Quicker to production phase means less time and cost
Less waste to dispose of and less clean-up
Minimize your frustration level
Logical experimental plan instead of trial-and-error
Learning how to think "scale-down"
A better understanding of what it takes to scale-up successfully
We will have a meeting in which you describe your process and your
experiments and trials in confidence.
Post Mixing will run an analysis of your information and come up
with a plan. We may have a quick solution because we serve so
many different industries and we may have seen something similar
before. Or your situation may be quite unique. If we don't
think we can help you, we will let you know right away.
Analysis of the mixing capabilities at your plant
The solution to scale-up requires a rigorous analysis of your plant
mixing capabilities. We need to understand the mixing
characteristics of your reactors. Thinking scale-down is
key. We can supply you with a spreadsheet
questionnaire to fill out, or we can do it ourselves, either
on-site, by phone, or by email. You may be surprised to learn
what affects mixing beyond the mixer!
Experimentation and data acquisition
The plan may call for additional experimentation to answer questions
that are unresolved. We believe that this is better done on
small-scale then in the plant. It is cheaper to make mistakes
with 30 liters than with 30,000 liters. We will put an
experimental plan together along with the objectives. Post
Mixing can perform the experiments for you at your site (we have experienced
technicians) or you can do them yourselves. Dr. Post was a VP
of R&D and knows what to measure and how to get the most out
of experiments.
The scale-up implementation
Our goal is to come to a successful scale-up at the lowest possible
cost to you. Where many consultants and industrial reps will
suggest new mixing equipment (probably from the companies they
represent) to solve the situation, Post Mixing will try
everything else first. A solution maybe as simple as moving the
feed point of one of the reactants. We may suggest moving the
impellers to different locations or use different impellers.
Maybe your system is throttled and we need to widen the inlets and/or
outlets. Every project is different and so are their
solutions. Often, though, the lab-scale mixer is so overpowered
that you will never be able to match that in the plant. If the
experimentation shows a limitation in regard to power input, changing
the mixer maybe the only recourse. If that is not an option we
can discuss changing the process parameters to accommodate the plant
capabilities.
