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Throughput

Meaning in chemical engineering, with examples

/ˈθruːpʊt/nounCore term

In chemical engineering, throughput means: The amount of material that a unit or plant processes in a given time, for example tonnes of feed per day.

In Turkish: işleme kapasitesi, üretim hızı, çıktı miktarı

How it is used

Used by production, planning and management. Throughput is increased, maximized, limited or reduced; a bottleneck limits the throughput of the whole plant. Often compared with design capacity in percent.

Example sentences

  1. The column flooding limits our throughput to about 92% of design.

  2. Management wants a 10% throughput increase without new equipment.

Common collocations

  • plant throughput
  • increase throughput
  • maximum throughput
  • throughput limit
  • feedThe material that enters a unit or a plant to be processed, such as crude oil to a refinery or the liquid stream entering a column.
  • debottleneckingIncreasing a plant's capacity by finding and removing the equipment limits that stop it from producing more, instead of building a completely new unit.
  • flow rateThe amount of fluid that passes a point in a given time, given either as mass (kg/h) or as volume (m³/h).
  • design basisThe agreed set of data and assumptions that a plant design is based on, such as capacity, feed and product specifications, site conditions and design margins.

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