Today we would like to present our services in designing and developing PILOT PLANTS.
What do custom-made Pilot plants consist of?
The Pilot Plant is a small-scale process plant designed to obtain information that can be used in industrial-scale processes. They allow for carrying out feasibility studies of designs and processes on an industrial scale, thus reducing the cost of the initial investment.
At present, simulators are available for the study of processes. However, simulators do not allow for predicting behaviour or obtaining data from new processes in order to optimize them.
Therefore, having a Pilot Plant related to the study or work process offers multiple advantages over simulators.
What does EDIBON offer?
Due to our 100% own design and our strong own R+D department, we are able to do any full new design under special PILOT PLANTS needs of our customers, who only must provide us with the following data:
- Required unit diagram. Similar to any EDIBON unit in our www.edibon.com
- List of parameters to be measured in any point of the unit. (Unitary Process Diagram).
- To know the place where the end customer wish to allocate any parameter in the process.
- Any parameter range.
- Any other customer requirement.
As an example, we want to present to you a very important installation that we have made in the Department of Agriculture & Food Development Authority (Teagasc) of Carlow, Leinster (Ireland).
For them, we have custom designed and manufactured this Pilot Plant for Cereal Malting (CE00/MA).
This plant includes a steeping tank, a germinator, a dryer-roaster and a deculmer. In addition, it includes the auxiliary equipment necessary to carry out the operation in a comfortable and safe way. It is entirely made with food grade materials.
Another example is the recent collaboration of EDIBON with IG-CSIC (Spain), dependent on The Spanish National Research Council, CSIC (The National Spanish Institute for Investigation), with the installation of the Advanced Computer Controlled Deodorizing Unit (AEDC/A).
The AEDC/A allows the study of the deodorization process, stripping undesirable compounds from edible oils.
Another example is the recent collaboration of EDIBON with IG-CSIC (Spain), dependent on The Spanish National Research Council, CSIC (The National Spanish Institute for Investigation), with the installation of the Advanced Computer Controlled Deodorizing Unit (AEDC/A).
The AEDC/A allows the study of the deodorization process, stripping undesirable compounds from edible oils.
Article Submitted By:
Beatriz Bonilla
EDIBON International, S.A
Spain
