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The cooking oil in your kitchen could be transformed to biodiesel. Oily biomass such as soybean, animal fats, or recycled grease make excellent feedstocks to produce the alternative transport fuel. Materials are combined with an alcohol in a transesterification reactor that converts the mass into crude biodiesel. The finished product is a low-sulfur, biodegradable fuel that can be used in its pure formulation or in petroleum diesel blends.

Biodiesel

Oleochemicals

Rapeseed oil comes from the seeds of rapeseed plants. You clean the seeds before they undergo other processes to extract oil. There are two methods of producing rapeseed oil: one by cold pressing and filtration, the other by applying heat and pressing the seeds. Add a solvent to the remaining solids and wash it off as the oil goes through further refining processes such as cooling, bleaching, and steam distillation.

Rapeseed oil

Unlike natural resins, synthetic resins produced in the industry make up 30 to 60% of plastic composition. Silicone resins, gum arabic, epoxy resins, acrylic resin and carrageenan are some of the different types of synthetic resins that exist. You manufacture them using the chemical polymerization process. Synthetic resin making equipment can help you with that.

Synthetic resin

Sulphur

KANON Loading Equipment (http://kanon.nl/) is a Netherlands-based first-class supplier on the international market for Marine, Rail and Road liquid transfer systems.

Easy operation

Handrails fitted as standard

Automatic adjustment to tanker height

Built to latest safety standards

To ensure the safety of operator while working between a loading platform and road or rail tankers, folding stairs and safety cages are essential to provide safe and efficient means of access.


<h2>Folding stairs and safety cages for safe operation</h2>
Kanon Folding Stairs and Safety Cages are built to latest safety standards. The spring-balanced design ensures easy operation by a single operator.

The Safety Movable Stairs (SMS) provide the possibility to access almost any side of the road or rail tanker or container. The safety cages are available at sizes of 1400 mm deep and width ranging from 1400 mm up to 12000 mm. Pneumatic or hydraulic operation is possible.

Folding stairs and safety cages

Logistics

Biomass

Chemical

Feed

Food

Batch

Handling

A loading system feeds your continuous or batch processing machine with the specified material or item in line with the flow of production. Loaders transfer the articles from one stage of preparation to the next with uniformity and accuracy.

Loading

Trucks that run on rapeseed oil and jets that fly on algae extracts is the new reality being made possible by biofuels. You can convert organic mass such as plants, algae and animal waste into energy resources to diversify the power mix across s range of industries. And unlike fossil fuels, the materials from which biofuels are derived are replenished more quickly and are carbon neutral.

Biofuel

If a raw material was recently part of a living organism, it makes good biomass. Organic substance that has otherwise little use for you such as inedible plant cuts, sawdust or recycled cooking oil, offers a path to carbon neutral energy generation. With the right process, you can transform biomass materials into a range of valuable energy sources.

Due to their potential hazardous nature, chemicals are classified for proper identification and safety during production. Chemical classification depends on their properties, structures and functions. In the chemical industry, you can regard them as basic chemicals such as acids, chemical products to produce plastic materials and finished chemicals for use in cosmetology. As a manufacturer or engineer, you want to know their reactivity when using chemical process equipment.

Chemicals

We continuously talk to suppliers of feed processing technologies that have important know-how on how to create the smarter, better, and greener feed products we need to kickstart a better tomorrow. Are you into making animal feed or pet food and looking for ways to improve your production process? Let’s navigate the world of feed production technologies together!

We continuously talk to suppliers of food processing and packaging technologies and gather important knowhow on how to create the smarter, better and greener food products. Are you into making food stuff and looking for ways to improve or set up your production process? Let’s navigate the world of food production technologies together!

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Industry sees a future powered by hydrogen. The chemical element is an excellent energy carrier that could significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions across sectors without upending economic models. The tricky part, however, is extracting it in its pure form.

Hydrogen

Requires minimal maintenance

Provides an easier and more ergonomic operation

Manual or hydraulic operation is possible

Can be provided with a virtually non-spill Emergency Release System

A hose or loading arm is needed when you load or unload fluids from a ship or transfer fluids between vessel and shore. If you want a safer, easier to operate and longer service life than a hose, a marine loading arm is the ideal solution.


<h2>Marine loading arms to meet liquid loading needs</h2>
Kanon Marine loading arms are manufactured in line with the latest requirements of OCIMF and major oil companies. It permits emergency release action without any spillage of product and without pollution. Kanon marine loading arms require minimal maintenance and all product seals can be replaced without scaffolding or dismantling the loading arm itself.

KANON’s single counterweight balance system enables both hydraulically and manually operated arms to be maneuvered easily and safely, saving both time and manpower.

Marine loading arm

When he was in Haiti in 1493, Christopher Columbus noticed that the natives were bouncing on rubber balls made from the milky sap of Hevea brasiliensis, also known as a rubber tree native to South America. The milky sap was nothing but latex, the source material for natural rubber. Latex processing technology includes equipment for coagulation techniques and rollers for natural latex and a sequence of mixers, pumps, and sieves for synthetic latex.

Latex

Kanon's ergonomic design eliminates hard physical work for the operator

Efficient and cost-effective

Adaptable to tight-fill or closed-system loading

All swivel joints are designed for easy maintenance without dismantling the complete loading arm

Compact design, can be fitted in almost every existing application

Load or unload liquids from the top of the tanks safely and securely for trucks, railcars, small or big containers, ISO containers, drums of 220 liters, etc.


<h2>Safe, hassle-free loading from the top of the tank</h2>
KANON top loading arms come in different designs depending on the application. These can be open filling systems as they are commonly used in for a wide range of products across all industry sectors. But they can also be designed for closed filling for highly aggressive liquids associated with the chemical and petrochemical industries.

Loading arms can be executed with or without vapour return or pressure line. They can outfit with top level detection (bubble pipe sensing or electronic). A telescopic drop pipe can be integrated to prevent foaming or electrostatic build up. Adding a press down cylinder will prevent arm lifting or add a drop pipe deflector to prevent dripping.

Kanon top loading arms are provided with four swivel joints for the product line and a counterweight or multi-coil spring cylinder balance system.

Top loading arm

Safer to operate than top loading arm because loading is done on the ground

Connections are made more quickly so overall loading time is reduced

Simultaneous connecting and filling of up to seven product lines with vapour return

Bottom loading/unloading arms are designed to be connected on the side or on the rear of the tanker and sometimes for both.


<h2>Safe, hassle-free loading from the side or the rear of the tank</h2>
Kanon bottom loading arms are used both for open loop and closed loop fluid transfer. The “open loop” product transfer uses a single bottom loading arm. A combination of two bottom loading arms is used simultaneously for “closed loop” product transfer. Closed loop product transfer is necessary for low density liquids.

Kanon loading arms are equipped with five swivel joints and a multi-spring balance cylinder. The use of Kanon balance cylinders ensures that bottom loading arms can be maneuvered through all positions with minimal effort.

Bottom loading arm

Continuous

In the feed sector, it's common to talk about feed as balanced, compound, or concentrate. Many people use one of these terms to refer to any feed mill product. However, the processing of feed concentrates, only requires grinding and mixing. The further transformation into pellets adds is an added value for the market.

Feed concentrates

Polymers

VTA (http://www.vta-process.de/) produces thin film and short path distillation plants at laboratory, pilot and industrial scale as well as the components of these plants

Continuous distillation process

Very low operating pressures

Short residence time

High evaporation rates

Low fouling on evaporator wall

With short path distillation, a substantial decrease of boiling temperature is obtained by reducing the operating pressure. It is a continuous process with very short residence time.


<h2>Evaporation at low operating pressure with very gentle distillation</h2>
The special design of short path evaporators by VTA allows operating pressures down to 0.001 mbar. The very low operating pressures ensure very low distillation temperatures and therefore a very gentle distillation is possible. The short path distillation allows the thermal separation of high molecular and high-boiling products.

Thanks to short residence time, low evaporation temperature and the immediate cooling of the concentrate, thermal stress and decomposition of the product can be minimized.

Suitable for concentration, fractionation, distillation, purification and drying of heat sensitive products and high boiling point components.

Short path evaporators

Process

Pharmaceutical

Evaporation equipment is used to reduce or remove the moisture content of a mixture. Considerations for choosing suitable evaporation equipment include the moisture content in the mixture, the boiling point of the solvent, heat sensitivity of the product, and the amount of material to be processed. Evaporators are used for applications such as obtaining fruit and vegetable concentrates in the food industry, concentrating aromas and herbal extracts in the cosmetics industry, and to isolate active ingredients in the pharmaceutical industry.

Evaporating

Purification is the removal of contaminating substances and by-products to increase the level of purity of the desired substance. Considerations for choosing a suitable purification system in the industry, include the physical state of the mixture, the desired product, required level of purity, the type of mixture, heat sensitivity of the product, number of purification steps needed, and the production volume. Industrial purification systems are used for the production of pure water in the food pharmaceutical and biotech industries.

Purification

Separation process to separate components of a liquid mixture, for recovering dissolved solids from liquids. Choice of a suitable technology depends on the identification of the key physical or chemical property, such as size, mass, density, or boiling point, which sets the product of interest apart from the rest of the components. Separation technology are widely used in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries for the isolation of active ingredients and high purity chemicals.

A biopharmaceutical is a drug in which the active substance is manufactured or extracted from biological origin materials. They are usually produced in bioreactors by plant cells, microbial cells, yeast cultures, or mammalian cells. Also known as biomanufacturing, they are used to either treat or diagnose and prevent a patient’s medical condition or disease. Biopharmaceuticals are typically complex macromolecules administered by injection or infusions, and examples include vaccines, serums, and insulin.

Biopharmaceuticals

Cannabinoids are natural compounds obtained from the Cannabis sativa plant. The most utilized among these compounds are delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC, a psychotropic substance) and Cannabidiol (CBD, a non-psychotropic substance, mainly deployed for nutraceutical purposes) which can be obtained directly from the plant or by extraction. These components can be used both for medical and non-medical uses.

Cannabinoids

Essential oils are known as the liquid gems of nature. The sweet-smelling essences impact not just our senses but also our biochemical and cellular make-up. Besides aromatherapy, the products of an essential oil extraction system found applications in pharmaceuticals and foods.

Essential oil

Fruit pulp is a mass of pressed fresh fruit not meant for immediate consumption. Production of fruit pulp avoids wasting food, preserves the flavors and nutrient value of the fruit product. Processed fruit pulp is an ingredient in beverages, sauces, baby foods, jellies, smoothies and bakery products.

Tradition and manufacturing procedures dictate the distinction between fruit juice, puree, and pulp. Still, naming and labeling are complex depending on regulations, type of fruit, texture and consistency, preservation methods, as well as sugar or solid content (measured in Degrees Brix). Depending on your desired output, there are various fruit pulper machines for various stages of production that make the process quicker and more efficient.

Fruit pulp

Pharmaceutical developments walk side by side with health advances to provide new medicines, treatments, and therapies that have increased life quality and extended life expectancy by years. Pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment helps deliver products to a great deal of the population, but there’s a significant share that doesn’t benefit from them yet. Over 2 billion people cannot get the medicines they need, according to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, and local production might be a way to provide for these people.

Pharmaceuticals

Ancient civilizations discovered that plant extracts were useful for the treatment of pathologies. The origin of plant extraction cannot be specifically verified, but we can infer that the earliest attempts at plant extraction were more intuitive than scientific. Today, the extraction of compounds is a precise process with plant extraction systems complimenting traditional knowledge.

Plant extracts

Have you ever wondered why the names of plastics always start with poly like polyethylene? The reason is that plastics are nothing more than synthetic or semisynthetic materials made from chains of molecules, called polymers, linked together. Plastics' main feature is the malleability to be easily molded and extruded into different shapes such as bottles or tubes. When heated, plastics can soften and be reshaped (thermoplastics) or they can solidify and never be reshaped again (thermosets).

Plastics

Koala bears diet exclusively on eucalyptus leaves. But the large concentration of cineole in the tree keeps most other predators at bay. Humans, though, discovered ways to extract the substance and use it as a remedy against inflammations and other diseases. The eucalyptus oil production process keeps evolving to maximize yields, ensuring enough eucalyptus forests for koalas.

Eucalyptus oil

Only one percent of the entire plant species on the planet produces essential oils, but that amount has found its way into various products, from perfumes to foods. Flower extraction systems are similarly diverse, and picking the right ones depends on the organic material and the final product.

Flower extract

Lavender oil is one of the most common essential oils in the market currently. Extracted from the herb Lavandula spp., this essential oil is used as a complementary medicine and as an additive. Studies have shown that lavender oil has sedative, carminative, anti-depressive, and anti-inflammatory properties. Like other essential oils, lavender oil extraction equipment must be capable of distillation, condensation, collection, and separation processes.

Lavender oil

The ancient Greeks believed feeding sea buckthorn to their horses would give them a lustrous hide. Indeed, full of lipids and carotenoids, the fruit did contribute to glowing, reddish coats. However, the thorny plant also has benefits for humans. Sea buckthorn processing equipment extracts this unique vegetable oil full of fatty acids. The liquid is a prominent component in various food, cosmetic, and pharmacological preparations.

Sea buckthorn oil

Tea tree oil, also known as melaleuca oil, is an essential oil with immune system stimulants produced mainly in Australia. The tea tree oil manufacturing process starts from the leaves of Melaleuca alternifolia. In terms of market value, the one for tea tree oil was valued at 38.8 million USD last 2017 and is projected to increase to 59.5 million USD by 2025.

Tea tree oil

Everything tastes like porridge, the saying goes. That may be an exaggeration, but in theory, reaction flavors could make everything taste the same. Thankfully, flavorists and chemists in the flavor industry are more inventive than that, and colorful process flavors treat our taste buds to a broad palette of sensations, flavors and aromas.

Reaction flavors

Provides visual observation of the distillation process

Proper and reliable tests can already be performed with 2 kg of crude material

Can be operated at pressure range of 0.1 mbar to 1,000 mbar

Can handle material with max. Viscosity of 15,000 mPas (cP) at operating temperature

Options of continuous feeding systems and continuous discharging systems for distillate and residue can be selected

Reach reliable conclusions testing the distillation of high-boiling or highly viscous material using as little as 2 kg of crude material.


<h2>Small scale thermal separation with wiped film distillation</h2>
With wiped film distillation, a substantial decrease of boiling temperature is obtained by reducing the operating pressure. It is a continuous process with very short residence time. The VTA wiped film distillation laboratory unit is designed to distill small product quantities for acquiring reliable data of the separation process.

The unit can handle high-boiling and highly viscous feed with maximum viscosity of 15,000 mPas (cP). The fabrication of the unit’s main components using Borosilicate glass enables observation of the product properties for foaming or potential fouling during distillation.

It is suitable for feasibility studies, doing first process development steps, producing small sample amounts of final product and optimizing existing processes like separation, drying, concentration, fractionation and purification.

Laboratory wiped film distiller

R&amp;D

Distillation equipment is used in the process of separating different constituents of a liquid mixture. Considerations for choosing suitable distillation equipment include the boiling points of the components, heat sensitivity of the product of interest, pressure requirements during the process, and the scale of production. Distillation is used for concentrating extracts such as herbal extracts, flavors, and aromas in the food industry. In the pharmaceutical industry, distillation is used in the production of active ingredients and in the chemical industry for the purification of chemical products.

Distilling

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Only about 6% of the soy produced globally is directly consumed by humans, typically as edamame beans, tofu, or soy milk.  More than three-fourths of global soy production goes to animal feed. The rest is processed by soybean meal technology into oils or used for biofuels and other industrial processes.

Soybean meal

Andreotti Impianti is an Italian company active in the design, manufacture, and launch of plants for the production of edible oils and fats, oleochemicals (fatty acids, glycerine, and derivatives), and related products.

Easy to maintain and cost-effective

High-quality oil yield

Low product loss and utility consumption

When producing customized flakes, pressed cakes, or other oilseed products, the oilseed preparation value chain differs from one seed to the other. For example, soybean treatment asks for different processing compared to a sunflower seed or rapeseed.


<h2>Cleaning and dehulling seed for further processing in extraction plants</h2>
An oilseed preparation plant by Andreotti Impianti has a specific sequence of activities that meets the specific business needs of the following process plants of, for example, biofuel production. First, depending on the type of seed processed, the preparation plant handles the weighing of the seeds to stabilize the flow at the plant's inlet. The process then continues with removing any coarse particles from the raw material, and further cleaning consists of destoning where stones and other impurities are removed. After this, the material is then conditioned to reduce the viscosity and adjust the moisture content to desired levels. The oilseeds now need to be further reduced in size, which happens by cracking them. Finally, the seeds are dehulled to modify the final meal protein content, leaving a material with a higher protein density.

Take, for example, sunflower seed processing. The dehulling directly impacts the protein levels of the end product for this type of seed. Therefore, there is the option for one-stage or two-stage dehulling, meaning that for the one-stage dehulling, the product contains less than 16 percent residual hulling fragments. The dehulling process can reduce this percentage to 11 percent with a second round, which will lead to an even higher protein level in the dehulled product.

The main goal of the preparation plant is to have the raw material, the seeds ready and modified for further processing by solvent extraction or mechanical pressing. After dehulling, as mentioned above, seeds can be flaked to improve extraction performance for solvent extraction in an extraction plant. In addition, sunflower seed and rapeseed need to be pressed to improve extraction performance. Other process steps in the preparation plant might include milling to homogenize the size of the meal and pelleting for the logistics of the final product.

Oilseeds preparation plant

Continuous milling is a flow production method used to grind materials without interruption. It is often used in the production of foods, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and minerals. The material to be processed flows in at one end and the milled output flows out at the other in a continuous process. By choosing the right combination of milling technology and processing power you can obtain the desired particle size distribution in an uninterrupted stream.

Continuous milling solutions

A pellet mill is a type of mill used to make small, round, compressed, pellets from powdered materials. Selection of a suitable pellet mill requires consideration of the desired pellets size and shape, nature of the material to be processed, ease of cleaning, and the scale and mode of pellet production. In the animal feed and pet food industries, pellet presses are used to combine various nutritional ingredients into each pellet. In biomass combustion, a pellet mill is used to increase bulk density and provide a consistent, easy-to-handle input product made from raw materials such as sawdust.

Pellet mills

Cleaning equipment is used to wash or disinfect machinery and the production area. It may also be used to sterilize the product, equipment, tools, or work surfaces and to purify or clean the product by removing impurities. Choosing a suitable cleaning system depends on the type of product or equipment to be cleaned, the sensitivity of the product to heat, pressure, and chemicals, and the level of sterility desired.

Cleaning

The raw materials that go into your products need dedicated storage solutions to protect them from spoilage and contamination before they enter the manufacturing cycle. Advanced technology facilitates the management of tank and silo systems by automating the delivery system and linking it with the rest of the production line.

Storage

Energy is constantly changing, but it finds rest in a fuel. Once exposed to heat, though, these natural materials release their captured energy. Every aspect of everyday life – from manufacturing to digital services – is powered by the mastery of this complex conversion from fuel to energy.

Fuel

Whether for personal consumption or agricultural purposes, you process seeds to make them clean and maximize yield. Seed processing equipment includes the steps of polishing, threshing, separation, sorting, and drying. Some cases require additional processes. For example, the extraction of the seed from fruits or vegetables. Or, pressing the seed to extract oil.

Seeds

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Water recycling

Reduced steam consumption

Reduction of hexane loss

Low emissions on air disposal

Extracting sunflower oil using an organic solvent, usually hexane, has a big environmental impact. In fact, hexane emissions are a major cause of photochemical smog.


<h2>Extracting oil while keeping hexane content to a minimum level</h2>
Andreotti Impianti extraction plant is designed for oil solvent extraction starting from oil seeds flakes or pre-pressed cake. This environmental-friendly extraction system reduce the hexane content in the air emission, where the air is washed with mineral oil and the hexane is absorbed. Absorbed hexane is evaporated and recycled.

The extraction process involves four steps: solvent extraction, separation of the oil-solvent miscella, recovery of the solvent from the meal and adsorption of carbureted airs. In the pre-treatment step, the seed is prepared for oil removal (<a href="https://making.com/equipment/lab-scale-seeds-brushing-machine/">brushing</a>, cleaning, de-hulling, cracking, cooking, flaking, and pressing). Then, the seed is fed into the extractor and placed on a filtering belt where the solvent, hexane, washes the seed cake. The solvent extraction process gives two products - oil-solvent miscella and meal wetted solvent.

The oil-solvent miscella goes straight to the distillation section where the hexane is distilled under vacuum and removed with live steam. The meal with solvent leaves the extractor for the upper layer of the toaster where all the hexane is distilled through a combination of indirect stream and live stream while stirring the product inside the toaster. At the bottom of the machine, the meal can be dried or cooled according to market requirements.

Sunflower oil extraction plant

Extracts from plant material, such as seeds, leaves, flowers, roots, and bark provide essential oils and active ingredients used in the pharmaceutical and food industries. The three most commonly used methods of extraction are steam distillation, cold press extraction, and solvent extraction. Considerations for selecting suitable extraction equipment include the type of plant material to be processed, heat sensitivity of the extract, and volume of production. Extraction equipment is applied in the pharmaceutical industry for extracting active compounds from medicinal plants or herbs. It is also used for the recovery of essential oils, oleoresins, aromas, natural extracts, and proteins in the food industry.

Extraction

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Glycerine is a water-soluble liquid mix of alcohol and sugar. It is a by-product of the oil and fats industry that offers added value to various industries. There are three ways to process it: transesterification, saponification, and fat splitting (hydrolysis). In 2020 these 3 forms of glycerine production reached around 4 million metric tons, with a global market of $1.68 billion.

Glycerine

Reduction in used chemicals by over 30%

Zero process water consumption

No odor emission

Effluent reduction by over 50%

Low steam and fuel consumption

The main problems arising from refining process of vegetable oil and animal fats are energy consumption and wastewater production. Energy is used to heat water and produce steam, with temperatures reaching very high levels. Instead, wastewater generated during refining stages contains organic and inorganic contents, lipids, and high chemical oxygen demand, so when released in the environment can cause water pollution.


<h2>Refining crude oil while reducing wastewater and the use of chemicals</h2>
Andreotti Impianti refining plants produce oil for technical and edible use starting from all types of vegetable oils and animal fats.

Depending on the customer needs, crude oil can be neutralized in the chemical refining process or degummed in the physical refining process in the first step. Centrifugal separators are then used to separate the soaps/gums from the oil. According to the nature of the crude oil, certain technologies can be selected; for example, cold refining technology is used only in the sunflower oil or corn oil production process, which reduces the wax content.

The bleaching process removes pigments and impurities from degummed/neutralized oil using bleaching earths to absorb the pigment in the oil. In this way, the color of the oil becomes lighter. The winterization plant is used when sunflower oil and corn oil are processed. The purpose of winterization is to remove all waxes from the bleached oil. During deodorization, residual fatty acids in the oil and unwanted odors and flavors are removed by steam distillation under vacuum.

The use of vacuum groups with surface condensation leads to a zero-water consumption by reducing the amount of wastewater by 50%. Thanks to specific heat exchangers, heat recovery can be up to ≥ 80%, thus reducing energy consumption.

Refining plant for vegetable oil and animal fats

Filtration equipment separates solid matter from liquid by using a filter medium. The filter allows only the fluid to pass through but retains the solid matter. The choice of filtration equipment depends on the particle size, the consistency of the mixture, and the nature of your product.

Edible oils are fats that you can extract from various plants and animal tissues. The most popular sources are olives and sunflowers. You can use them for different cooking techniques, such as frying, baking, and other methods. Manufacturers are now finding ways to extract oils with a higher natural fat content efficiently using edible oil extraction machines.

Edible Oil

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Fully continuous multi-feedstock plant

Ease of operation

High environmental compatibility

Single-column glycerin distillation

Low installation and operational cost

Glycerol or glycerin is the major by-product generated in the biodiesel production process. But the disposal of glycerin or various other by-products coming from biodiesel production process pose a big challenge to industrial plants, as they can’t be disposed into the environment.


<h2>Distilling and refining glycerin while minimizing the environmental impact</h2>
Glycerin production plant designed by Andreotti Impianti produces technical and pharmaceutical glycerin from a wide range of natural feedstocks. Glycerin can be produced from different by-products coming from three industrial processes: methylesters production, fats saponification and fat splitting. The production steps change depending on the starting by-product.

For by-products such as sweet water (splitting) and spent lyes (saponification), the process path involves chemical treatment, concentration and glycerin distillation and refining. Hydrochloric acid is added in the treatment unit to reduce the solubility of fatty acids, which are then separated. Before moving on distillation process, only one filtration is carried out for sweet water, while for spent lyes, filtration is done twice, before and after the neutralization. Crude glycerin is further processed in the distillation, deodorizing and bleaching plant. The distillation system is composed of several steps: washing, rectification, condensation. In the last purification step, blenching section uses activated carbon to remove color and odor in order to obtain a pure glycerin.

It is worth mentioning that crude glycerin coming from biodiesel (methylesters) production can be sent directly to the distillation process without any further treatments, thus avoiding dilution, purification, and concentration steps.

Since one of the biggest problems caused by industrial plants today is the disposal of by-products, Andreotti Impianti has included in its plants stripping units, which help minimize the environmental impact.

Glycerine manufacturing plant

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Low steam consumption

User-friendly operation

Low COD values (final monoglyceride content as low as 0,6 %)

As a biofuel producer, making biodiesel from several types of treated vegetable oils or animal fats gives you more flexibility. Using different raw materials means not being dependent on fluctuation in feedstock price or market availability.


<h2>Making biodiesel from vegetable oil or animal fat</h2>
The biofuel production plant designed by Andreotti Impianti is a multi-feedstock plant that produces biodiesel. In order to produce biodiesel the plant has a multistep process: an oil drying section, a reaction section, a settling and evaporation section, a washing and drying section and a glycerine treatment section. Before the actual process begins, impurities are removed from the feedstock through a refining process.

The core step behind biodiesel production is a chemical reaction known as transesterification, a process involving three basic ingredients: oil or fat, an alcohol, and a catalyst that increases the reaction speed throughout the process. During the transesterification reaction, the selected feedstock is blended with methyl alcohol in the presence of an alkaline catalyst which creates two products: methyl esters, chemical name for biodiesel, and glycerine. Transesterification reaction takes place in specially designed reactors and in the subsequent settling the glycerin is removed as soon as it forms. Once the glycerin has been separated, a centrifugal separator washes and dries the biodiesel. The separated glycerin can be used to produce a variety of pharmaceutical products.

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