pilot plant

Noun

Meaning

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pilot plant (plural pilot plants)

A small-scale chemical engineering facility designed to research the full-scale production of a product.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

According to Lindsay, the pilot plant stage is expected to involve the production of a number of different lithium products to test the market. Source: Internet

Argonne main An Army-OSRD council on 25 June 1942 decided to build a pilot plant for plutonium production in Red Gate Woods southwest of Chicago. Source: Internet

A six-stage pilot plant was built at Columbia to test the process, but the Norris-Adler prototype proved to be too brittle. Source: Internet

Secondly, a series of laboratory experiments were conducted using a small-scale pilot plant of the novel wastewater treatment process. Source: Internet

In February 1942, TEC built the Wexler Bend pilot plant and began producing small amounts of RDX. Source: Internet

Carbon Engineering's pilot plant in Squamish, B.C. is seen in this undated handout photo. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

pilot light pilot lights pilot nut pilot program pilot project pilot result