Biox Corporation
Challenge/Opportunity:
The Biox biodiesel production process takes non-food-based fats and oils from biomass and converts them to clean burning, renewable fuel and other co-products.
Biox is in the process of upgrading their Sombra facility and optimizing their process which will require technical support including analytical testing and process optimization.
Solution/Collaboration:
The collaborative project will address the following initiatives:
- Upgrading the current plant to suit various non-food-based fats and oils
- Increasing plant capacity by 50%
- Full-scale sulphur analysis on feedstock through to finished product to find treatment technologies
- Glycerol upgrading studies
Researcher: Jessica Carter
Area: Instrumentation, Process Control & Optimization
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