Biofuels blending
21 Sep 2006
Bran + Luebbe, an SPX process equipment company, has introduced a series of customised production packages for biofuel producers. The manual and fully automated systems series, it claims, offer high efficiency and safe product blending.
The biofuel machines bring together pumps and batch counters for dosing a specified volume into a tank and full PLC systems for controlling and monitoring pumps, said B+L. The units, also feature valves and instrumentation or SCADA-based systems with data-logging capabilities to provide process traceability of the product.
The key requirement when blending biofuel with petrol or petrodiesel is to achieve a uniformly mixed product. According to B+L, its systems employ special pumps combined with static mixers to deliver the correct blend both for batch and continuous operations.
"The production and processing of biofuels demands the employment of equipment developed by specialists in processing technologies and guarantees the highest levels of operating integrity, efficiency and safety at all times," claims John Cousins, B+L systems engineer.
The new biofuel blenders encompass manually operated single-pump packages through to fully automated batching and mixing plant. The more complex systems typically feature multiples of pumps and mixers with the associated valves and instrumentation that are required in batching and continuous production plant.
*SPX Process Equipment has restructured its Lightnin and Plenty mixer business by concentrating all sales and management operations at its Macclesfield offices.
The biofuel machines bring together pumps and batch counters for dosing a specified volume into a tank and full PLC systems for controlling and monitoring pumps, said B+L. The units, also feature valves and instrumentation or SCADA-based systems with data-logging capabilities to provide process traceability of the product.
The key requirement when blending biofuel with petrol or petrodiesel is to achieve a uniformly mixed product. According to B+L, its systems employ special pumps combined with static mixers to deliver the correct blend both for batch and continuous operations.
"The production and processing of biofuels demands the employment of equipment developed by specialists in processing technologies and guarantees the highest levels of operating integrity, efficiency and safety at all times," claims John Cousins, B+L systems engineer.
The new biofuel blenders encompass manually operated single-pump packages through to fully automated batching and mixing plant. The more complex systems typically feature multiples of pumps and mixers with the associated valves and instrumentation that are required in batching and continuous production plant.
*SPX Process Equipment has restructured its Lightnin and Plenty mixer business by concentrating all sales and management operations at its Macclesfield offices.
