Thursday 24 December 2009

LPM do Brasil starts engineering of continuous plant to purify cooking oil


Lamers Project Management Ltda (http://www.lpmdobrasil.webs.com/) started in December 2009 the development of a continuous flow purification plant for cooking oil. The development will be done in colaboration with Ecoleta Ltda, in order to handle the cooking oil that is being collected through the "Viva Oleo" project (www.vivaoleo.com.br). Recently Ecoleta initiated smaller collection centers in several cities of the Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Minas Gerais state. They are based in the city of Resende, from which city they have easy access to these three states.


Ecoleta is working out the details with LPM do Brasil for this total new concept. The result will be a mini plant that produces on a continuous basis, and which will require very little supervision. The capacity of the mini plant will be around 10 liters of oil per minute.
This will answer the demand in the market for cooking oil purification for medium and larger purification plants.
LPM do Brasil developed this year 3 different models of mini plants for the small family based cooking oil collector (200, 400 and 1200 liters a day)and 3 different models for the market of cooperatives of collectors (2400 and 4800 liters a day).
With this new development the market of the larger beneficiary centers will be covered (4800 up to 14.400 liters per day).
This is enough capacity to keep one major soap factory in the Rio and São Paulo state going on 50 - 100% cooking oil.
From the side of Ecoleta, their process engineer Miguel Nunes da Silva Filho and Logistics Manager Leonardo Aguiar are working on the project together with the engineering team of LPM do Brasil, under coordination of Engineer Peter Lamers.
Funding of the project is being realised through the Consultancy company Felicissimo e Ramires (http://www.felicissimoeramires.webs.com/) , in colaboration with the Rio Inovation Program of FAPERJ, Foundation in the Rio de Janeiro State that supports inovative programs.

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