Laboratory
BiOdiesel
Quality Control
LINARES BIODIESEL TECHNOLOGY has two 24 H Continuous Operation laboratories highly equipped for In-Process Quality Control (one) and Quality Control of raw materials, by- products and finished products (other); with the possibility of carrying out routine controls of critical parameters in short periods of time (qualitative analysis by internal methods) and with the capacity to carry out detefyirminations of regulated parameters according to official methods (quantitative analysis by internal methods and regulatory methods).
Within the diversity of possible analytical techniques, a multitude of analytical methods based on instrumental equipment have been developed.
The following relevant instruments are available in the laboratory:
Gas Chromatography equipment and a Headspace.
High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) equipment.
Inductively Coupled Plasma with Optical Emission Spectrophotometer (ICP-OES) equipment.
X-ray machine.
Ultraviolet Visible Spectrophotometry equipment.
infrared equipment (NIR Technology)
In addition to the above, there is a large amount of equipment necessary for the complete characterisation of the parameters established in the current Biodiesel regulations.
BiOdiesel
Research Centre
LINARES BIODIESEL TECHNOLOGY has its own technology centre equipped with different possibilities of pilot plants, which allow the research projects developed in the laboratory to be scaled up. The diversity in the development of pilot plants lies in the availability of small-scale equipment, which allows for versatility according to needs. Thus, we have:
- Oil Distillation Columns
- Evaporation Columns
- Perfect Mix and Piston Flow Reactors Centrifugal separators
- Delivery pumps
- Heat exchangers and condensers
- Fixed bed columns for different physical operations
- Pressure reactors
- Continuous physical settling separators
