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Adress:
Casa do Adro
4860-022 ALVITE CBC
Portugal

Phone: +351 912 641 766
----------------+351 965 337 656


Email: info@bb-diesel.com
-------
sales@bb-diesel.com

 
     

               
  Biodiesel reactors Oil
neutralizers
Biodiesel
wash
               
  Methanol
recovering
Complete
plants
Centrífuges
 
 
               
Biodiesel processors Biodiesel
Reactors
Oil neutralizers Oil
Neutralization
Biodiesel washing Biodiesel
Wash
Methoxide dispensers
Methoxide

Dispensing
Methanol recovering
Methanol
Recovering
Biodiesel centrifuges
Centrifuges
Biodiesel complete plants
Complete plants
             
 
     

SERVICES PROVIDED

>>
Biodiesel Equipment

>>
Plant Automation

>>
Production Optimization

>>
Plant Start Up

>>
Process Engineering Consultancy

>> Engineering Consultancy

>>
Engineering Procurement

>>
Personal Training


TRAINING COURSES

>> Biodiesel Training Courses
------------------------February 14, 2009
>> Algae Training Courses
-----------------------March 21, 2009


PRODUCTS

>> Transesterification reactors
>> Oil Neutralizers

>> Dry wash systems

>> Methoxide pre mixers

>> Methanol recovering

>> Centrifuges

>> Complete plants

>> Acid esterification

>> NIR biodiesel analyzers

 

ALGAE

>> Bench photobioreactors

>> Pilot photobioreactors

>> Production photobioreactors




COMPANY DESCRIPTION

>> BB-DIESEL is an engineering and
technology intensive company with high
skilled staff in biodiesel knowledge.
>> Our technology is based on Best
Available Technologies
(BAT) ranging from
the mechanical construction and equipment
software design to biodiesel production.

CONTACTS

>> Address:
------TAGUSPARK
------Nucleo Central Edificio Expansao, Escritorio 284
2740-122 OEIRAS
------Portugal
>> Telephone: -------+351 912 641 766------- -------+351 965 337 656 >> E-mail: -------info@bb-diesel.com




 

 

   
     
 

 

PRODUCTS OVERVIEW

 
Our engineering team has developed an innovative,
extremely efficient and cost effective
biodiesel equipments. BB-DIESEL units have high quality stainless steel vessels and piping, all the components
are chemically and mechanically tested to guarantee durability. Sensors, valves, electric
board parts and cables
are acquired from international leader manufacturers.

All models are stand alone and easily integrated into new or existent plants. The advanced
unit control software improves safety, reliability and operation simplicity, reducing the
number of workers needed to operate the facility.

The equipments meet all the CE specifications and all parts are ATEX certified. ATEX
certification for the entire equipment is available under request.

 

 
 
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Products





 

   
High shear reactors
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Biodiesel processors

The biodiesel quality is directly dependent from the mixing capacity of the processors. The special design associated with the 3 stage mixing system of our processors guarantees high transterification rates. Double wall stainless steel vessels decreases energy consumption and improves equipment reliability.

     
Oil neutralizers
 

Feedstock neutralizers

Used cooking oils and animal fats are cheaper feedstock but have high content of free fatty acids (FFA). Our neutralizers and acid esterification units can reduce the FFA contents under 0.5%, converting low quality raw material in feedstock capable to produce high quality biodiesel.

     
Biodiesel washing systems
  Biodiesel washing

The biodiesel has to be washed to eliminate contaminants resulting from the transesterification process. Our biodiesel dry wash units are ion exchange resin based columns that operate in peg leg process to guarantee completely contaminants removal. The BB-DIESEL high efficient water wash units only consume 100L for 1000L of washed biodiesel, removing all contaminants, including methanol.
     
Methoxide pre mixers
  Methoxide pre-mixers

Automated methoxide pre-mixers improves safety by reducing the risk associated to the methanol and catalyst handling. We manufactures models to operate solid cathalyst (NaOH or KOH) and to operate sodium and potassium methylate. These stand alone efficient units can be easly integrated into new or existent plants.
     
Methanol recover units
  Methanol recovering

The BB-DIESEL methanol recovering units extract all the unreacted methanol from the biodiesel and glycerine mixture, recovering the methanol to be reused, producing methanol free biodiesel that meets the international standards and dry glycerine with 85% to 90% purity grade. The investment in these units is quickly recovered as methanol is an expensive reactant.
     
Centrifuges
  Centrifuges

Using a new design concept these low maintenance centrifuges are ideal for glycerine separation and water wash process. Have clean in place system enabling clean without stripping and improving efficiency. All models are ATEX certified and liquid contact parts are 316 stainless steel made.
     
Biodiesel complete plants
  Complete plants

Complete plants include all biodiesel production steps needed to produce biodiesel that meet all EN 14214 and ATSM D-6751 specifications. Due to advanced software these modular and easily upgradded plants are completely automated and can deliver up to 50,000MT per year of biodiesel in a continuous flow production process. The model base includes methoxide pre-mixer, transesterification unit, methanol recovering, glycerine separation and biodiesel washing, but many extras can be added according to client requirements.
     
FTNIR analyzer   NIR biodiesel analyzer
No more long waiting biodiesel analysis. All biodiesel analyses according to EN 14214 and ATSM ATSM D-6751 requirements can be obtained in a couple of minutes by using this Near InfraRed (NIR) unit. This equipment is ideal for the continuous monitoring of the biodiesel producing process.
     
     
 
     
 

 

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

 
BB-DIESEL is an innovative biodiesel equipments manufacturer company with a highly qualified R&D department. Several collaboration protocols
with Universities and Institutes provide us continuous innovation and ultimate technological advanced solutions.


Having the client profitability as a start point, the equipments technology is BAT (Best Available Technology) based for mechanical construction

and software design to biodiesel production.
We believe that only quality materials can produce quality products, hence our biodiesel equipments
have high quality stainless steel vessels
and piping and the external parts are acquired from international leader manufacturers.
We have developed and tested a new concept of biodiesel analysis based in NIR (Near Infra-Red) equipment. These biodiesel analyzers allows monitor the biodiesel production process in real time for all EN 14214 and ATSM D-6751 parameters.

Due to the partnership between BB-DIESEL and the Geaqua, we have extended our expertises to the microalgae research, project, production
and equipment manufacturing. Therefore we manufacture advanced photobioreactors which control temperature, PO2, PCO2, pH, light, medium
nutrients, turbidity, flow, production rate; ie capable to grow any type of algae in full automated process with an impressive medium control
precision. Another advantage of these PBR is the self sterilization system, not requiring expensive sterilization equipment.


The BB-DIESEL biodiesel equipments range covers the small to medium scale plants which represent biodiesel productions from 300L per day
up to 50,000 Ton per year. The photobioreactors
we manufactures could be classified in three scales: bench top for laboratory, pilot scale and
tailor made photobioreactors for industrial production.

Besides the equipment manufacture we also provide process engineering consultancy, engineering procurement, plant automation, economical
evaluation and training courses for biodiesel and algae production.



 
     
 

 

SEVICES PROVIDED

 
BB-DIESEL is an innovative biodiesel equipments manufacturer company with a highly qualified R&D department. Several collaboration protocols
with Universities and Institutes provide us continuous innovation and ultimate technological advanced solutions

Biodiesel equipment:

We supply all biodiesel production line equipments:

> Feedstock neutralization
---- Oil deguming plants
---- Acid esterification units
---- Used cooking oil neutralization units

> Transesterification process
---- All-in-one small units
---- Full automated transesterification rectors (batch or
--- continuous)
---- High shear reactors (continuous operation)

> Methanol recovering for all scale production
---- Biodiesel methanol recovering units
---- Glycerine methanol recovering units
---- One step biodiesel and glycerine methanol recovering units

> Biodiesel washing
---- Dry ion exchange resin columns
---- Renewable ion exchange resin columns
---- Water wash units
---- Magnesium silicate wash units

> Complete plants
---- Complete plants in continuous or batch process are tailor
---made according to client specifications. Our plants are
---modular and easily up gradable

> Biodiesel analizers
---- Near Infra-Red (NIR) based equipments to real time
---
biodiesel monitoring.



Plant automation


Our high skilled staff are able to automate any existing plant of:

---- Biodiesel production
---- Oil refining
---- Algae production


Production optimization
:

> Incorporation of Best Available Technologies (BAT) principles to optimize
the production in all process steps, having product quality and energy
saving as main reasons.



Plant start up:


> Local plant start up and personal training for any scale biodiesel, oil
refining and algae production plants.


Personal training:


> We provide local personal training and courses in biodiesel and algae.
 

Process Engineering Consultancy



Engineering consultancy



Engineering Procurement



Industrial and environemental licensing:


> Portuguese market only


For further information contact us:
---------Phone: +351 965 337 656 ---------E-mail: info@bb-diesel.com
 
 
     
 
 

BIODIESEL PROCESSORS

 
We manufacture biodiesel processors from 200 Litre per day up to 50,000 MT per year.
All models are PLC controlled and have high quality stainless steel vessels and piping to
improve safety and reliability.

Small models are all-in-one processing units that make the whole biodiesel production
process from the oil heating to the biodiesel washing. These processors are PLC controlled
and the biodiesel wash is made by synthetic megnesium silicate. Medium scale transesterification processors are designed to operate 24 hours a day, 7
days a week. These high quality full automated batch reactors are stand alone units but
can be easily assembled in parallel with one central unit command for all units. Each model
delivers 1000 L of biodiesel every two hours (1000 L per hour with pre heated oil).

High shear reactors are high capacity continuous flow reactors that can be settled in new
or existant plants. These rotor - stator based units process biodiesel instantly at low
temperatures using less methoxide than conventional biodiesel processors, saving energy,
methoxide, time and room space.


The equipments meet the CE specifications and all parts are ATEX certified. ATEX
certification for the entire equipment available under request.
 

 

 

 

 

 


Products





 

 

 

   
High shear reactors
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All-in-one units

These low cost complete process units do the methoxide mixing,
transesterification reaction, glycerine separation and biodiesel
washing process, delivering ready to use biodiesel. All-in-one
processors are BB-200CS, BB-300CS and BB1000-CS, which
produce 200, 300 and 1000 Litre per day respectively.

     
Oil neutralizers
 

Full automated processors

Full automated processors are high quality transesterification
units composed by the transesterification reactor and the
methoxide mixer unit. They are automated stand alone units
which can easily be
integrated in existing or new biodiesel plants,
working individually or in parallel with common controls. Each
unit delivers 1000 L of high quality biodiesel every two hours but this production rate can be duplicated with pre heated feedstocks.

     
Biodiesel washing systems
  High shear reactors

High shear reactors are used for long scale production facilities.
These cost effective units improves biodiesel efficiency production saving room space, time, methanol and
energy consumption due
the efficiency increasing and smaller temperatures required to the
transesterification reaction.
     
  Synthetic magnesium silicate

Synthetic magnesium silicate is powerfull adsorbent product that eliminate all the biodiesel impurities without biodiesel absortion. This powder is mixed with the biodiesel after the glycerine separation, at 60ºC in strong agitation for 30 minutes. After that, the magnesium silicate is filtered and the biodiesel is ready to be used.
     
     
 
 

FEEDSTOCK NEUTRALIZING


Lower cost feedstock like used cooking oils (UCO), animal fats or Jatropha oil have high free fatty acids (FFA) contents that need to be reduced before the transesterification
process. To produce quality biodiesel the feedstock must have 0,5% FFA maximum as
value.

Our oil neutralizers are ideal for UCO neutralization once this raw material usualy have 2%
to 5% of FFA contents. These full automated units neutralize 1000L of oil every 2 operating
hours in a PLC controled process.

Feedstock with FFA contents higher than 5% needs to be neutralized by acid esterification.
This esterification process can be made using acidic polymer based resins in a specially
designed columns or by addition of H2SO4 in high shear based neutralizers.

Acid esterification columns and high shear neutralizers are tailored according to the
client specifications.

The equipments meet the CE specifications and all parts are ATEX certified. ATEX
certification for the entire equipment is available under request.
 

 


Products





 

 

 

 

   
Automated oil neutralizers
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Oil neutralizers

These automated oil neutralizers are ideal for UCO with FFA contents up to 5%. All the process is done in a continuous batch process where the number of cycles and the neutralization degree are PLC controlled and operated in according to data introduced by the operator when the equipment is turned on.

     
Oil neutralizers
 

Acid esterification columns

Acid esterification resin based columns convert high FFA raw material in good feedstock for the biodiesel production. The FFA are esterified in fat acid metil esters (FAME) while tryglicerides are kept in the feedstock. Acid esterification columns are specially suited to animal fat based feedstock.

     
Biodiesel washing systems
  High shear neutralizers

High shear neutralizers are advanced sulphur acid eterification units used for long scale production facilities. These neutralizers are designed to be incorporated in new or existant facilities which operate with degumed high FFA feedstock like Jatropha oil.
     
     
 
 

BIODIESEL WASHING


After the methanol striping and glycerin separation, biodiesel needs to be clear of contamints
resulting from the transesterification process and oil residues. This biodiesel purification
is called biodiesel wash and can be conducted in three different ways:

1) Water wash: In the water wash process the biodiesel is mixed with water and H3PO4 to remove the
contaminants and decrease the alkalinity resulting from the transesterification process.
After that the biodiesel is rewashed to remove the H3PO4 and remaining contaminants
until becoming clear. Finnaly, the water is removed and biodiesel is ready to use.

2) Resin based dry wash:
This dry wash biodiesel purification process consists in forcing the biodiesel to pass through
the specially designed resin columns at a constant flow rate. The ion exchange resins
will remove the the contaminants from the biodiesel

3) Synthetic magnesium silicate:
High purity grade magnesium silicate with low average particles size can remove the
contaminants from the biodiesel by adsorption. The TrySil
® is mixed with biodiesel in a
ratio of 0,2% to 0,5%, at 70ºC and strong agitation for 30 minutes. Then the mixture
biodiesel / silicate is filtered to remove the silicate and the biodiesel is ready to use.


The equipments meet the CE specifications and all parts are ATEX certified. ATEX
certification for the entire equipment available under request.
 

 



Products





 

 

 

   
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Water wash

BB-DIESEL water wash units are specially designed to have high efficiency with low water consumption. In fact the water spent in this process is only 100L for 1000L of biodiesel washed. These stand alone full automated units are PLC controlled and can be assembled to new or existing biodiesel plants.

     
 

Resin based dry wash

Our resin based dry wash equipments are easy to use units that can fit any existing or new plant in stand alone or integrated command operation. Built in high quality 304 stainless steel, these units are prepared to use dry resins or methanol regenerative resins.

     
 

Synthetic magnesium silicate

TrySil ® is a silica gel based biodiesel purifier with strong adsorbent properties that retain all the biodiesel contaminants. Because of its high purity grade (>99%) and low avearge particle size, the biodiesel contaminants are removed with insignificant biodiesel absortion and no negative effects on biodiesel properties.

     
     
 

METHOXIDE PRE MIXING

 
Methoxide can be prepared mixing NaOH / KOH in methanol or diluting sodium / potassium
methylate in methanol. The catalyst quantity added to methanol is dependent from the
feedstock titration and must be rigorous to guarantee a good transesterification.



Catalyst dispensers


Catalyst dispensers are used to add and mix solid catalyst to the methanol. These high
quality 316 stainless steel dispensers are automated to ensure fine addiction of catalyst into
the methanol in order to guarantee the exact methoxide concentration.

The operator only have to enter the titration result
in the command unit and be sure that the
catalyst compartment is not empty. The dispenser will prepare the methoxide automatically.


Catalyst dispensers are specially useful for medium scale plants which use solid catalyst.
 


In-line methoxide mixers


BB-DIESEL in-line mixers
were specifically designed to prepare methoxide using liquid sodium or potassium methylate. Due to its special mixing system these equipments ensure absolute methoxide uniformity.

Built with high quality 316 stainless steel, this cost effective equipment have an advanced control system which allows methoxide concentration adjustment with an extraordinary accuracy. Another advantage is the regulation of the quantity of methanol that reacts with the feedstock, enabling process fine-tune according to raw material and plant type.

BB-DIESEL in-line mixers are full automated stand alone units suitable for all plants which
use methylate as catalyst.




The equipments meet the CE specifications and all parts are ATEX certified. ATEX
certification for the entire equipment available under request.

 


Products






Contact us for further information:

Tel: +351 965 337 656

E-mail:
info@bb-diesel.com

     
 

METHANOL RECOVERING

 
After the transesterification process the biodiesel contains about 2% of methanol. In order
to meet EN 14214 and ATSM D-6751 standards that methanol has to be removed from
the biodiesel down to 0.2% of maximum content.


Because the methanol have a significant cost in the production process, recovering the
methanol to be reused represents a significant reduction costs. In fact, this unit can decrease the methanol consumption up to 50%.


The BB-DIESEL methanol recovering units are specially designed to operate after the
transesterification stage. This sequence has great advantage when compared to other
units in the biodiesel market because in a single pass we obtain:

1 - Methanol extraction from the biodiesel;

2 - Methanol extraction from the glycerine, producing easy storage glycerine with commercial
value;

3 - Condensation of all stripped methanol to be reused in the transesterification stage.
 


Therefore a single equipment is needed to recover the methanol from both biodiesel and
glycerine streams, which represents
savings of tens of thousands euro. Another advantage
of our methanol recovering units is to improve the biodiesel / glycerine separation as dry
methanol glycerin is denser than rich methanol glycerine.


To guarantee total methanol extraction with low utilities consumption the BB-DIESEL
methanol recovering unit works under vacuum conditions. All the process is full
automated and controlled by the command unit.


This cost effective equipment is built in high quality 304 stainless steel and skid mounted.
It is a stand alone unit that can easily be assembled to new or existing plants.


The equipments meet the CE specifications and all parts are ATEX certified. ATEX
certification for the entire equipment is available under request.

 

 

Products






Contact us for further information:

Tel: +351 965 337 656

E-mail:
info@bb-diesel.com

     

 

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COURSES





Biodiesel:


Biodiesel production course:


General propose: -> Provide all necessary knowledge to produce quality biodiesel in safety conditions.

Type of training:

-> Theorical and practical - practical with lab operation.

Audience:

-> General public.



Advanced biodiesel production course:

General propose: -> Provide advanced knowledge to operating industrial scale biodiesel plants.


Type of training:

-> Theorical - intensive training



Audience:

-> Biodiesel experienced technicians.
-> Biodiesel companies staff.







Algae and microalgae:


Algae culturing course:

General propose: -> Provide all knowledge to produce algae in lab and pilot PBRs.

Type of training:

-> Theorical and practical - practical with lab PBR operation.

Audience:

-> General public.


Algae advanced course:


General propose: -> Provide all necessary knowledge to operate pilot scale and industrial PBRs.


Type of training:

-> Therorical - intensive training.

Audience:

-> Algae production experienced technicians.
-> Biotechnology companies staff.
-> Fish farmers
.







Scheduled courses: Biodiesel: -> Currently there are no courses scheduled.


Algae production: -> Currently there are no courses scheduled.



Courses achievement: -> BB-DIESEL facilities. -> Client facility (mínimum 15 trainees).

NOTICE: To achievement please contact:

info@bb-diesel.com

Tel: +351 965 337 656


 
     
 
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