CCI has built several plants for the thermal pressure splitting of oils and fats with water into Fatty Acid and Glycerine. It is a simple, economic process and does not pollute the environment.
Some highlights of the process are –
- This is a Single Tower Design
- Our splitter works at the modern pressures of 63 barg rather than 30 barg which is used in older technology systems. This has a direct impact on the splitting degree and oil losses which goes up from the old maximum of 95% to 99% within our system.
- The splitter design has internal heat exchangers for heat recovery of outgoing streams.
- Distributors are placed strategically that redistribute the two phases that allow us to achieve this level of splitting efficiently.
- The splitter volume allows for 4 hours of residence time in order to fully complete the splitting.
- This section in our plant includes Pre-Concentrators to recover heat from the Flash Steam so that the sweet concentration from the process is in the range of 26–30% rather than the 10–11% that is obtained in older technology systems. Furthermore, the Pre-heat is also recovered from the outgoing products.
