HEAD Engineering – a Swedish specialist in black liquor soap related process solutions within the pulp and paper industry – has won an order for engineering, equipment supply and commissioning supervision of a continuous crude tall oil production plant to a pulp mill in Russia. The plant has a scheduled start up for late 2015.
The order comprises of a modern state of the art continuous crude tall oil plant with a name plate capacity of 7.5 t CTO/hr. HEAD Engineering’s proprietary Pinola TOPP technology’s competitive advantage lies in the patented dynamic tall oil reactor and centrifugal separators by Alfa Laval achieving a residence time of less than 2 minutes which means high quality tall oil with the highest possible acid number value, low moisture and ash content.
The plant has a guaranteed yield of 97% of recoverable tall oil which is unmatched by competitors on the market. The fully automated cleaning in place system ensures low maintenance and high plant availability.
Crude tall oil is biologically degradable and its refined components are used in fuel additives, polymer additives, coatings and personal care products.
