“Scale-up is the task of producing an identical, if possible, process result at a larger production rate than previously accomplished,” says Leon Levine of the engineering consulting firm Leon Levine & Associates, Albuquerque, N.M. (phone 505-856-5914). His chapters 10 and 11 in the book Food Processing Operations and Scale-up by K.J. Valentas, L. Levine, and J.P. Clark (Marcel Dekker, 1991) are among the few resources on this topic with a focus on food processing.
Levine states that scale-up…