Matthew Bundy has written:

'Bench-scale flammability measures for electronic equipment' -- subject(s): Fire testing, Electronic apparatus and appliances

The Mohs Scale

Jenna wants to make a park bench as part of her family's miniature railroad train display. If the display is built to scale where 2 cm = 1 ft, and Jenna is modeling her bench after a bench with a length of 6 ft, what will the length of Jenna's model be?

Chemical engineers study what chemists develop on a bench scale and we scale up this development to a macroscale for business purposes. Similar but very different. That isn't to say that chemical engineers don't do bench scale studies, but we prefer to work with refineries and sometimes with beakers.

A bench and no load! Whatever you are testing has no load. It might be a generator or a motor for example. If a motor it wouldn't be connected to anything. If a generator it would have nothing plugged in.