Laboratory Facilities
The fats and oils laboratory is located on the main Texas A&M University campus and is fully equipped to conduct most basic and advanced oil analysis.
Our instruments include a full range of traditional and advanced laboratory equipment:
- Gas and high-pressure liquid chromatography
- Karl Fischer moisture analyzer
- Mettler melting point apparatus
- Refractive index analyzers
- Color analyzer
- Omnion oxidative stability instrument
- Atomic absorption
- Spectrophotometers
- Supercritical oil analyzer
color analyzer
automated gas chromatograph
HPLC
oxidative stability instrument
Pilot Plant Facilities
The RBD oil processing line with a processing capacity of 200-2,000 lbs/day includes equipment such as:
- Degumming and refining centrifuges
- Degumming and refining reactors and mixers
- Bowl centrifuges
- Basket centrifuge
- Plate presses
- Leaf filter
- Sparkler filter
- Vacuum bleaching reactors
- Hydrogenating reactors
- Batch deodorizers of various scales
filter press
Groen kettle
deodorization and bleaching section
Advanced Research
Advanced Fats and Oils Processing equipment include:
- 200 gallon glass lined reactor
- 25 gallon stainless steel reactor
- 2″-Short path molecular distillation unit
- Chilling and crystallization system with a jacketed sparklers filter
Fats and Oils Products equipment include:
- Perfector for margarine and shortening manufacture. Capacity (60 kg/hr)
- Homogenizer for salad and mayonnaise manufacture.
pressure reactor
pope still
molecular distillation apparatus