INTRODUCTION TO TECHNOLOGY In the last decades the biodiesel energy resource has become increasingly important in view of the shift to green fuels. Countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia, the world’s largest palm oil producers, aim to replace fossil fuels with palm-based biodiesel. In these countries, the great advantage in biodiesel production is mostly represented by the huge availability of raw material directly on site, thus with practically zero transport costs and…

INTRODUCTION: what is the glycerine distillation & refining process Glycerine is technically a by-product created during the process of obtaining fatty acids or biodiesel. To obtain the final product, vegetable oils or animal fats must undergo two steps: glycerine distillation and glycerine refining. INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION OF GLYCERINE Over time, glycerine has strongly increased its importance and market value, with a production which, in a few years, has gone from 800,000…

CMB is glad to announce the completion of another start-up of a Vegetable Oil Refinery in northern Netherlands. The innovative and visionary Client is the Verborg Group. In just 12 months CMB S.p.A. designed, built, delivered and commissioned, a Vegetable Oil Refinery, intended to produce top quality edible oil starting from Crude Palm Oil (CPO), Crude Palm Kernel Oil (CPKO) and Coconut Oil (CNO). This edible oil Refinery project, which represents an…