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Zean Consultores Shows installations of distillation of sour grasos Omega 3 in Expoquimia

Editorial Interempresas24/10/2011

24 October 2011

The molecular distillation by means of destiladores of short route, Short Path, allows the possibility to distill the sour Omega 3 without need to heat to high temperature, that is to say, without favouring/favoring the polymerisation/polymerization. The possibility to arrive to empty of operation of until 0,005 milibares allows the distillation the sour Omega 3 to temperatures no upper to 120 °C, by what achieves a product distilled without degradation or polymerisation/polymerization that keeps the previous properties to the distillation. Zean Consultores offers this solution of distillation in his stand of Expoquimia (Big enclosure Via of Fira of Barcelona, of the 14 to 18 November).

Plant of obtaining/purification of sour grasos Omega 3 of Zean Consultores.

The sour grasos Omega 3, sour Eicosapentanoico (EPA) and Docosapentanoico (DHA) that find in the oils of fish have a wide diffusion in the market put that it treats of acids grasos insaturados that have beneficial effects for the reduction of the cholesterol in the human being. The difficulty of the distillation of sour grasos EPA And DHA resides in that when having 5 and 6 double links respectively are very unstable in front of the temperature. Since they are composed of long chain, the distillation requires high temperature to be able to effect (similar to the distillation of vegetal oils), the contrapartida is that this temperature is the one who favours/favors the polymerisation/polymerization of the acids breaking the double links and forming new chains. The training of new chains gives place to the apparition of new composed with distinct properties to the originals, losing of this way the beneficial properties for the human being.

Previous treatment

The plant of obtaining/purification of sour grasos Omega 3 has to have a series of previous steps of treatment of oil as they are reception, leak of oil and refinación, amongst other. It is usual and convenient the esterification of the acids grasos (process of Etanolisis) to favour/favor the separation of the same, so that the product of entrance to the plant of distillation is ester of acid graso.

The process of distillation

The process of distillation consists of 4 fundamental parts.

1. Elimination of dissolvent. Desodorización: It consists in the feeding of the esters formed in the reaction of esterification to which accompany him rests of dissolvent that have not been able to delete in the previous steps of separation of dissolvent. The elimination of the same takes place to empty and is necessary for the following steps of distillation

2. Distillation of esters of low molecular weight: by means of technology of short route (short path) the esters of short chain are deleted with what achieves a content in esters of sour grasos Omega 3 purer.

3. Distillation of esters of low molecular weight (stage 2): the aim is similar to the previous stage since the aim is purificar again the sour grasos Omega 3

4. Distillation of EPA and DHA: distillation of the final product to obtain a product distilled apt for the market. The distillation takes place to moderate temperature and with empty of work of until 0.001 milibar in operation.

Scope of the services of Zean

-Feasibility of the project
-pilot Essays
-Engineering and construction of teams
-Design of system of empty
-Automation of the process
-Setting of teams and pipe
-Set up.