摘要 |
A biodiesel manufacturing or processing plant for processing on continuous basis a process fluid from a raw oil feedstock, the plant including a housing containing a power generation means, an inlet for raw oil from an oil bearing crop, a raw oil heating vessel, an esterification subprocess including a reactor in which the process fluid is reacted with alcohol via selective esterification by a catalyst, 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, a chantrelle for separation of excess alcohol from the process fluid through a differential pressure vaporisation process, and one or more finishing processes. |