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With decades of cumulative experience and expertise in edible oil refining, FenixTM covers every step from crude oil processing to refining of various seed oils. Fenix has a delivery capacity from single section to a complete refinery.

 
     
 
Experience of having executed many vegetable oil refining plants.
Has the process engineering and project handling capability.
Has the in house process simulation & design softwares and AUTOCACAD facilities.
Has exported plants and systems out of India.

Has own manufacturing facility for core components like structured packing, column internals, heat exchangers, reactors, as well as fabrication of all process equipment.

 
     
  Our range of processes include:  
     
  Degumming  
 
Water degumming
 

Process to remove phosphatides from seed oils by precipitation with water and centrifugation - a method commonly used for seed oils.

   
Acid degumming
 

Process to remove phosphatides from low grade oils containing non hydratable phosphatides by acid treatment, precipitation with water and centrifugation.

   
Special degumming
  Process of removal of gums and other impurities via precipitation and centrifugal separation, applied for physical refining of oils.
 
     
  Acid conditioning  
  Treatment of oils with acid, prior to neutralization and bleaching or physical refining  
     
Neutralization  
 

Removal of free fatty acids, gums by centrifugal separation, after reaction with caustic lye, followed by water washing and separation of residual soap.

 
     
  Dewaxing  
 

Dewaxing by in situ crystallization and centrifugal separation of the crystallized waxes along with soap stock.

 
     
  Bleaching  
 

Removal of color pigments, oxidized components and residual gums via absorption in bleaching clay followed by filtration of the spent earth.

 
     
  Deacidification  
 

Removal of substantial quantities of free fatty acids during physical refining along with volatile impurities also results in deodorization especially for high FFA Rice Bran Oil or Crude Palm Oil.

 
     
  Deodorization  
 

Removal of residual free fatty acids and other volatile impurities by steam distillation under high vacuum.

 
     
  Fat Modification Processes  
     
  Dry Fractionation  
 

Generating high and low melting fractions from one feedstock via controlled cooling and crystallization, followed by filtration using membrane filters - process applied for RBD Palm Oil.

 
     
Hydrogenation  
  Highly energy efficient system for production of Vanaspati or Hydrogenated fat.  
     
Inter esterification  
 

Process to modify the fat structure using Sodium Methoxide catalyst to produce bakery shortenings.

 
     
By-Product Processes  
     
 
Lecithin drying
  Drying of wet gums recovered from water degumming of soya oil.
   
Soap stock splitting
 

Splitting of soap stock from neutralization, to recover crude fatty acids (acid oil) via reaction with mineral acid, followed by settling and separation.

 
     
  Other Plant Modifications  
 
Capacity increase of existing refineries
Converting seed oil processing plant to Physical Refining Plant
Training of plant personnel on safely and optimization of process and Audit
 
     
 
 
     
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