Pre-treatment for difficult feedstocks.
Degumming, bleaching, neutralisation, drying and filtration plants for used cooking oil, animal fats, crude vegetable oils and contaminated waste streams — standalone, or as the front end of a biodiesel or HEFA/SAF plant.
Where feedstock flexibility is won or lost
Every downstream process — transesterification, esterification, hydrotreating — has an inlet specification. Waste and low-grade feedstocks rarely meet it. The pre-treatment section is where feedstock flexibility is actually won or lost, and it is the part of the plant most often under-sized.
Configurations
- Standalone pre-treatment plants supplying a third-party biodiesel or HEFA plant
- Integrated front ends within an IncBio biodiesel or HEFA/SAF plant
- Bolt-on pre-treatment added to an existing plant to widen its feedstock range
- 01Degumming
Water, acid or enzymatic; ultrasonic-assisted where justified.
- 02Neutralisation
Conventional or ultrasonic-assisted.
- 03Bleaching
Adsorptive removal of metals, phosphorus and colour bodies.
- 04Drying and deodorising
- 05Filtration
Multi-stage, from coarse solids to polishing.
- 06Fat splitting
Where the downstream route calls for free fatty acids.
Send us the feedstock analysis
We will tell you what has to be removed, and how.
Discuss a pre-treatment project