What we deliver
- Specialist consulting and technical documentation
- Plant design at any capacity
- Equipment construction, installation and training
- Turnkey delivery
- Registered technology
- Biodiesel production with the cavitation reactor, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), 2012 To be completed: patent number
Advantages of the cavitation process over the conventional route
- Significant energy saving and higher productivity
- Considerable saving in production cost and process steps
- Catalyst consumption reduced to near zero
- The washing step almost eliminated
- Lower water consumption
- Smaller line machinery and lower production cost
- Continuous production, and therefore higher output
The process
The common route to biodiesel is transesterification: vegetable oil reacts with an alcohol (usually methanol) in the presence of a catalyst to give fatty-acid methyl esters (biodiesel) and glycerol. The hydrodynamic cavitation reactor drives this reaction continuously and in a short time through intense mixing and localised temperature and pressure. Published studies report the process reaching over 99% conversion with edible and non-edible feedstocks, including waste cooking oil, with product quality meeting EN 14214 and ASTM D6751.
Why biodiesel
- Adding just one percent biodiesel to low-sulfur diesel restores adequate lubricity.
- Biodiesel blends with diesel in any ratio and improves ignition.
- More than 20 countries now produce biodiesel and the global market keeps growing.