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Biodiesel Plants Expertise |
Touted as the diesel of the future, Biodiesel has been fast gaining popularity and not without reason.
Leveraging over two decades of experience in agri-based processes for renewable Biofuels, PRAJ now offers technology, plants, and services for Biodiesel production. Praj also offers a Biofuels Complex wherein one can produce both Bioethanol and Biodiesel.
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Biodiesel can be manufactured from a variety of feedstocks such as:
- Refined Oil
- Raw tree borne oils - Jatropha or Pongamia
- Raw veg. oils like canola, sunflower, soybean.
- Degummed oil (<2% FFA)
- Soybean or rapeseed oils.
- Degummed oil (>2% FFA) Palm oil or Acid oil
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PRAJ offers: |
- Wide range of standard capacities: 100 to 500 MT/Day.
- Flexibility to operate with multiple vegetable oil feedstocks.
- Choice of FFA neutralization vs. conversion to biodiesel.
- Advanced distillation / evaporation designs - Biodiesel-glycerol separation,
- Reduced operations for centrifugal separations.
- Low consumption of chemicals.
- Negligible waste-water due to in-process water recycle.
- Conformance to ASTM/ EN standards for product biodiesel
- Continuous operation with synchronized unit systems.
- Modular specific pre-treatments depending on the type of feed oil.
- Proprietary High efficiency cascade trans-esterification process, based on reaction kinetics.
- Biodiesel drying and methanol recovery.
- High Biodiesel yields with minimum losses.
- In-plant integration to minimize energy & fresh water needs.
- High purity glycerol as by-product.
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Praj Expertise for Biodiesel Plants: |
- Agriculture of oil sources - Backward integration for feedstocks
- Process Oleo chemistry
- Reaction kinetics and process development
- Pilot studies Engineering and technology commercialization
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