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1. A biodiesel manufacturing or processing plant for processing on continuous basis a process fluid from a raw oil feedstock, the plant including
(a) a housing containing a power generation means, (b) an inlet for raw oil from an oil bearing crop, (c) a raw oil heating vessel, (d) an esterification subprocess including a reactor in which the process fluid is reacted with alcohol via selective esterification by a catalyst (e) a trans-esterification subprocess including an alkali dosing mechanism to dose the process fluid in the presence of an alcohol, a powered sheer mixer to mix the alkali, alcohol and process fluid, and a heated cauldron for primary separation of glycerol from the process fluid, (f) a flash evaporation separator for separation of excess alcohol from the process fluid through a differential pressure vaporisation process, and (g) one or more finishing processes. |
