Expellers
History of Anderson International Corp
Go to link - 2005-02-08Interrupted Screw Design
Go to link - 2005-02-08Understanding Oil Extraction Methods: Expeller pressed vs solvent extracted oils
Go to link - 2005-02-08Oil Processing Terminology
Go to link - 2005-02-08Allergy Statement Edible Oils and Vinegars
Go to link - 2005-02-08The History of Soy Pioneers Around the World
Go to link - 2005-02-08UNDERSTANDING SOYBEAN PRODUCTS AND PROCESSING
Go to link - 2005-02-08Principals of oil extraction
Go to link - 2004-04-04Cargill seeks to develop plastics from oilseeds
Cargill seeks to develop plastics from oilseeds(Omnexus - 10/24/03)
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 24 -- Cargill has received a matching grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a platform of new industrial chemicals from soy and other oilseeds. The platform would serve as the foundation for an oilseed biorefinery in the future.
Under the terms of the collaboration, Cargill and the DOE will share funding of the program designed to advance the technology toward commercialization. Cargill will invest $1.9 million over two years, an amount to be matched by the DOE. The grant is part of a DOE program to develop new technologies for producing chemicals and fuels from sustainable raw materials such as carbohydrates and oils.
Cargill will collaborate with Materia Inc. and two other partners. As part of the effort, Materia’s proprietary olefin metathesis technology will be used to cleave and modify unsaturated oils, such as soy and corn oil, to produce mono and difunctional olefins and other materials that would serve as platform chemicals for a broad range of chemical and plastic products, Cargill said.
“A biorefinery shares many features with a petrochemical refinery, including a diverse platform for production of fuels and chemicals,” said Jim Stoppert, who leads Cargill’s industrial bioproducts development initiative. “The difference is the feedstock is renewable, which leaves a smaller environmental footprint and helps strengthen the agricultural economy. Cargill already operates biorefineries that ferment corn into industrial products, but the potential is even greater for developing a versatile platform of chemical building blocks from vegetable oils.”
Cargill is best known to the plastics industry for its joint venture with Dow Chemical, known as Cargill Dow, which produces polylactic acid (PLA), a biodegradable plastic made from the corn-derived sugar dextrose.
Omnexus - 2003-10-27
