Assume that the chemical reaction A + B → products is scaled up from a 10 l pilot plant to 10 m3 full-scale production unit. Temperature control is usually a minor problem in stirred tank reactors; instead the critical property is the rate of mixing. The characteristic reaction time can be estimated from the kinetics and the concentration as follows:

where C_limit is the concentration of the limiting reactant.

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r = k(T). f(CA, CB) mol m³ s and Treact Climit [s],