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Equipment Design

Vaestus Technology and Mechanical Design Study Group is the best solution in serving the world’s oleochemical producers with advanced technologies. We design, engineer and study the most reliable, efficient and cost-effective oleochemical plants  and process units for the production of fatty acids, glycerin, fatty alcohols, methyl esters and biodiesel. Our oleochemical portfolio is the outgrowth of decades of advanced  design and engineering of hydrolytic oil splitting, distillation and fractionation as well as batch and continuous hydrogenation. You can rely on the expertise of our project teams to design, plan and execute your project within the shortest possible time.  In addition to providing consistently high quality end products our plants are automated for ease of operation, require little maintenance and are very  energy efficient. 

Process Engineering

We offer complete systems, transforming feedstock into high grade final products and individual equipment units to convert natural oils to high-grade intermediate oleochemicals, including pharmaceutical-grade glycerin, with processes tailored for optimized output:

  • Continuous oil splitting

  • Glycerin water treatment and evaporation

  • Glycerin distillation and bleaching 

  • Fractionation or distillation of Fats, Fatty Acids, Fatty Alcohols, Methyl Ester, Glycerin to tailored composites or pure fractions

  • Hydrogenation (batch and continuous) of fatty acids and methyl esters

  • Esterification

  • Transesterification 

  • Hydrogenation of wax esters or methyl esters to fatty alcohols 

  • Carbonyl conversion 

  • Methanol recovery and rectification

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OUR SERVICES

PROCESS can provide preliminary design packages; mass and energy balances; complete process design packages with equipment specifications, capital and operating cost estimates; and any number of other process engineering services.

We have worked on a broad range of continuous chemical projects for many years, and that breadth allows us to rapidly respond to our client’s needs with quality engineering information. A few of the project categories completed many times by PROCESS have included:

  • Capital Project Development Support (FEL-0, 1, 2, 3)

  • Pre-FEED (Front End Engineering Design) Studies, FEED Packages, and FEED Verification Services

  • Greenfield/Brownfield Plant Design

  • Continuous Process Scale-up

  • Capacity Evaluations

  • Process Debottlenecking

  • Process Troubleshooting

  • Recovery System Design

  • Process Simulation

  • Operations Evaluation

  • Utilities Systems Evaluation

  • Waste Treatment System Design

  • and more….

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