Feedstock Pretreatment - High FFA Pretreatment

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In today’s market having your plant be multi-feedstock capable is not only a competitive advantage – it’s a business necessity. If you have a plant designed to use only refined oils, adding high FFA pretreatment opens up a world of new feedstock opportunities. Whether it be animal-fat based feedstocks such as beef tallow or chicken fats, or one of the new emerging feedstocks such as Algae-oil or Jatropha, they all share one thing in common: they all have FFA too high for base transesterification and thus require pretreatment. SRS offers a scalable, continuous-flow, skid-mounted system that can front-end any existing biodiesel system, efficiently converting FFA into useable oil with no yield loss.

SRS Engineering created the FSP-Series Acid Esterification pretreatment system to enable new and existing plants the ability to incorporate multiple high-FFA feedstocks.

The FSP System is a continuous flow acid esterification system with a number of key benefits including:

Delivered as a skid-mounted, space-efficient unit
Single-point connections for all feeds and utilities
Utilizes including heat, pressure, static mixing, and special dosing methodologies
Scalable with flow rates from 500,000 to 150 million gallons

Key advantages of the FSP-Series Pretreatment System

No yield loss
Prevents soap formation
Scalable to 15% FFA or higher, sized from 500k-150 MMGY
Energy efficient
Quick Return on Investment
Mitigates risk for high-FFA feedstock environment

Whether you're equipping your existing plant to handle lower-cost feedstocks, or planning a turnkey refinery with feedstock flexibility in mind, SRS's FSP pretreatment system will make your biodiesel plant multi-feedstock ready

Examples of High FFA Inferior Oils


Algae	Jatropha	Palm	Restaurant Fryer Oil

Feedstock pretreatment and esterification are as important as transesterification and without it Biodiesel plants will operate with little to no profits.

As the market searches for new oils due to the increasing demand it will become more and more necessary to have variable feedstocks. Unfortunately many of these feedstocks come with problems that result in modified treatments, many of which are cost prohibitive. The SRS pretreatment unit represents a complete package, capable of handling all your needs at a competitive price.

In the feedstock pretreatment / Esterification process:

Methanol and acid are mixed and injected into oil stream
Mixture is heated and reacted under pressure and temperature
After esterification, the modified waste additive is added and mixed with oil-methanol stream while cooling
Light layer and heavy layers are separated with a special designed separator
The light layers will contain the FFA and are treated to convert to usable oils
The methanol is recycled
The usable oils are centrifuged and ready for transesterification

High FFA Pretreatment

Call one of our biodiesel specialists today to find out how to make your plant multi-feedstock capable (800)497-5841

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SRS Engineering Corporation specializes in feedstock pretreatment (High FFA pretreatment). SRS' team of biodiesel engineers understands what it takes to run a profitable biodiesel plant, providing you with their proprietary FSP-Series pretreatment system which allows your plant to incorporate high FFA feedstock and maintain profitability.