IncBio delivers ultrasonic reactor for South America

IncBio, a Portuguese engineering company specialising in automated ultrasonic biodiesel plants, has delivered a 120,000MT per year ultrasonic transesterification reactor to be installed in South America.

The reactor will be used in an existing plant to increase its efficiency, while reducing its operational costs.

'Ultrasonic reactors not only speed up the conversion, by causing a reaction in seconds vs the typical hours of agitation or recirculation, but because they also require lower amounts of methanol and catalyst, ultrasonic biodiesel reactors exponentially improve the financials of existing plants. By reducing reaction time, and methanol consumption, we greatly reduce energy consumption (mostly reducing the volume of methanol to be distilled),' José Marques, IncBio’s CEO, says. ‘By updating the existing technology, our client is bringing its plant back to profitability, something with which most outdated plants are currently struggling with.'