Pilot Scale up Scale up: The transfer of a process from small-scale laboratory equipment to large scale commercial equipment Pilot experiment To test the feasibility of the lab scale fermentation process in a semi-industrial scale Pilot fermentors normally have a size ranging from 100 L to 10,000 L, depending on the products to be mass produced laterPilot Scale Up • Scale up: The transfer of a process from small-scale laboratory equipment to large￾scale commercial equipment • Pilot experiment – To test the feasibility of the lab scale fermentation process in a semi-industrial scale – Pilot fermentors normally have a size ranging from 100 L to 10,000 L, depending on the products to be mass produced later