Business Line Renewable Resources

Conservation of resources and sustainability both play a key role in the future
provision of basic supplies. Pioneers and researchers focusing on solutions with
renewable resources will find us to be a technically accomplished and committed
partner.

Renewable raw materials offer many opportunities for securing food for the people as well as substituting fossil-based raw materials and thus introducing completely new products and industrial processes. Efficient handling of natural resources is the order of the day. With the concentration of our know-how in the business line Renewable Resources, we give these requirements a platform for forward-looking solutions.

The business line Renewable Resources remains your market aide for tried and tested processes, e. g. in the extraction of cooking oil and starch, at the same time as forming a centre of competence for new, innovative ideas and visions – particularly in the development and exploitation of renewable energy sources. We support the forward-thinkers of our time by providing the latest process technology, from laboratory testing to industrial implementation.

The Business Line Renewable Resources is the competence and development centre for new visions and future markets. At the same time, we remain your market aide for tried and tested processes, with core competences in the following areas:

International demand for custom-made starch products and high purity proteins is constantly increasing. Centrifugal separation technology is a key technology with considerable potential for improving products and production processes in the extraction of reusable plant materials.

Examples of application areas of our centrifuges and process lines:

• Corn starch and corn gluten
• Wheat starch (A and B starch), wheat gluten, pentosans and protein coagulate
• Tapioca / manioc starc
• Potato starch, pulp, gratings and protein
• Rice starch
• Pea starch
• Proteins (e. g. from soy), protein concentrate, protein isolate

GEA Westfalia Separator Process supports the production of high quality biodiesel from renewable raw materials, with the implementation of complete process lines and optimizes the extraction of bioethanol with separators and decanters constructed especially for the stringent demands in these processes.

Solutions from GEA Westfalia Separator Process for the production of biodiesel:

• Complete process lines with the Connemann –
  ADM System CD process
• Individual machines for refining, washing, glycerine cleaning, separation of glycerine and catalyst from the biodiesel, separation of salts from the glycerine, and for separation of fatty acids and glycerine

Application areas of our separators and decanters in the production of bioethanol:

• Dry milling process
• Wet milling process
• Extraction of ethanol from molasses
• Extraction of ethanol from biomasses, e. g. such as yeast or cellulose

Examples of application areas of our centrifuges and process lines in the modern fermentation industry:

• Processing of bioproducts such as molasses, stillage, vinasse, sugar juice
• Processing of extra-cellular products such as amino acids, acetic acid, L-Lysine, monosodium glutamate, threonines, tryptophan, citric acid
• Processing of fermentation products such as algae, baker’s yeast, single-cell proteins, fodder yeast
• Processing of intra-cellular products such as yeast extract, ribonucleic acid

Highly reliable, energy-saving and extremely productive in the smallest of spaces – separators and decanters from the Business Line Renewable Resources recover oils and fats in any quality required.

Our separation technology systems and plants are used both for the extraction of raw oils and fats and in the refining of oils for press oil clarification, de-gumming, neutralization, washing, wax removal, fractionation and splitting soapstock.

Here, examples of applications include:

• Extraction of olive oil, avocado oil, nut oils, cocoa butter, jojoba, linseed and others
• Extraction of animal fats, blood meal and plasma, gelatine and others from meat by-products
• Extraction of fish meal, fish oil and liver oil, protein hydrolysates and surimi
• Processing of flotation sludges in the fish and meat industry
• Cleaning of frying and cooking fats
• Refining raw to cooking oils, e. g. such as soy oil, rapeseed oil, palm oil, sunflower oil, cottonseed oil, corn oil