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Facilities

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
color analyzer
gas chromatograph
automated gas chromatograph
HPLC
HPLC
oxidative stability
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

 

filterpress
filter press
Groen kettle
Groen kettle
deodorization
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.

 

advanced pressurereactor
pressure reactor
advanced popestill
pope still
advanced moleculardistillation
molecular distillation apparatus

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