PAT Solutions - Online Analytics for Automated Process Control
Process analyzer technology for biodiesel plants
The use of process analyzer technology gives you the opportunity to optimize the operation of your plant by measuring virtually all relevant parameters online. The benefits for you are as follows:
- Process-integrated online measurement of regulatory parameters, such as methyl ester content, glyceride content and methanol, for sales-optimized biodiesel production in line with the relevant specifications
- Flexible and crude oil-specific operation as well as recipe monitoring through online identification of different oil varieties (rape, soya bean, palm oil, etc.)
- Process-integrated quality control to ensure crude oil-independent biodiesel quality in line with the relevant specifications
- Savings in auxiliaries and consumables thanks to recipe-optimized plant operation
- Reduced need for in-plant and laboratory operating data analysis
- Optimized plant capacity utilization
Measuring tasks for optimizing biodiesel plants
have to be defined jointly for each specific type of biodiesel process. NIR-based online process analyzer technology is mainly used in the following process steps:
- Transesterification
- Biodiesel washing
- Biodiesel drying
Depending on the type of biodiesel process, this technology can also be applied in other process stages, such as:
- Degumming
- Extraction of free fatty acids
- Esterification of free fatty acids
The use of near-infrared spectroscopy for the fast quantitative analysis of multicomponent systems is widely established in chemical and other industrial processes. With SpectroBAY® BTS offers a process analyzer system which comprises not only the proven MATRIX-FTM spectrometer from Bruker Optics, but also a complete computing and control unit including software and the optical fiber connection. Both within the Bayer Group and at the sites of external customers, BTS has installed more than 320 applications using NIR instrumentation technology, thus helping its customers to optimize their chemical processes.
We can offer you solutions for both the instrumentation and automation of process analyzer technology in biodiesel plant and equipment. And we can advise you on further online techniques, such as online GC for reducing laboratory and in-plant operating data analysis.
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