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Dyes: Industrial scale up

This is a worksheet which looks at various factors which effect the scaling up of laboratory processes to industrial scale in the commercial manufacture of dyes.  Students look at

  • costs of the raw materials for each dye 
  • the percentage yield 
  • size of reaction vessels  
  • energy costs relating to the manufacture of each dye

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