pilot plant

基本解释

Work at the pilot plant has proved slow, talks with multinationals remain inconclusive and there is no production timetable.
事实上，试点矿厂的进程缓慢，与跨国公司的谈判尚无结果，而且也没有生产时间表。
Currently, a pilot plant operated by the Bolivian state mining company is producing small quantities of lithium carbonate as they experiment with different modes of extraction.
一家由玻利维亚国家矿业公司经营的试验工厂最近正在利用不同的提取方法生产少量的碳酸锂。
Novozymes stock pared its loss earlier this year after DuPont Co., the third-largest U.S. chemical company, said it planned to build a pilot plant with Danisco to make second- generation biofuel.
诺维信股票减少今年早期的损失，是在杜邦公司，美国第三大化学公司，声称计划将和丹尼斯克一起建立一个试验工厂，用来制造第二代生物燃料之后。

Without the pilot plant City of Hope probably wouldn't be involved in it at all.
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a small-scale industrial plant in which problems can be identified and solved before the full-scale plant is built