High phospholipid levels in gum separation make significant oil losses unavoidable. That’s why, in the oil degumming process, yields above 95% are rare in traditional water degumming. With our innovative phospholipase C (PLC) enzymatic solution, Quara® Boost, you can recover much of this lost oil, boosting your overall yields.
By adding Quara® Boost, to your existing water degumming process, you can convert more phospholipids to oil, cutting by-products and boosting oil yields. Enzymatic degumming with Quara® Boost, also reduces emulsification strength, which releases neutral oil from gums. The end result is a 1 - 2% increase in oil yield and higher profits for your plant.
Right now, even the most efficient plants struggle to improve oil yields. Even with continuous process optimizations, you’re unlikely to achieve large gains in the degumming of oil.
It’s frustrating when you consider the difference a big gain could make to your bottom line.
If you’re achieving oil yields of 95%, you’re getting around 950 tons of refined oil. The remaining 5% equates to 50 tons soap stock. That gives you a turnover of around $682.5million USD.
Oil degumming enzymes can make all the difference. A 2% rise in oil yield – from 95% to 97% - would give you 970 tons of refined oil. Only 3%, or 30 tons, of your output would now be gums. That increases your turnover to $689.5 million USD.
With our oil profit calculator you can evaluate the main steps of your alkaline refining process and find the combination that will maximize gains and minimize loss. Use the calculator to find out where Quara Boost® could take your plant.
Quara® Boost is an innovative phospholipase C (PLC) enzymatic solution for alkaline refining.
It recovers extra oil that’s hiding in plain sight so you can access more oil than you thought possible.
