Pilot Plants for Metallurgical Research at Fried. Krupp, Essen

Abstract

The erection and operation of semi-commercial pilot plants for performing metallurgical tests and research has proved to be a valuable proposition in many indust-rial countries and will become more and more important in the future. By adopting this procedure, it will be possible for'the research engineer to obtain reliable information on metallurgic al reactions and other phen-omena with a relatively low expenditure of time and money. The results obtained in these pilot plants can be applied to large scale industrial plants , either direct by using the principle, of similarity or indir- ect by interpreting the test results on the basis of empirical figures.