Dehuller

The dehulling of the sunflower seeds is part of the extraction process, previous to the extraction by mechanical pressing with the objective of improving the final quality of the meal.


Characteristics

• Impact rotor with high erosion resistance blades, static and dynamically balanced.
  
• Adjustable impact front with external access regulation system.
  
• Easy access for maintenance and spare part exchange.
  
• External Access mechanical system for the dehulling regulation.
  

Feeder

• Rotary type, with permanent magnetic trap.
  
• Anti-magnetic threaded roll.
  
• External mechanical system for feeding regulation.

Breaker

Equipment for the oilseed breaking during the preparation process, previous to the flaking, in order to improve the quality and capacity of the flaker.

Characteristics

• Split tiltable bearing boxes which facilitate the dismantling of the rolls.
  
• Bell Ville springs set for roll preloading.
  
• Double-layer centrifugal coasted rolls.
  
• Regulation and adjusting system of easy access.
  
• Easy access to roll exchange.

Feeder

• Rotary type, with permanent magnetic trap.
  
• Anti-magnetic threaded roll.
  
• Automatic feeding system with variable speed roll.
  
• Pneumatic system for the opening and closing of the roll feeder.

Cooker Conditioner

Equipment is designed for the cooking and/or conditioning of oilseeds during the preparation process previous to the mechanical pressing or flaking. Vertical multi-stage cookers with floors or horizontal rotary conditioners of simple stage and big size are used.

Besides sterilizing and decontaminate the seeds, this process objective is to provide them with plasticity, reduce the oil’s viscosity and clot the proteins.

Vertical Cooker

Characteristics

• Conditioning of the oilseeds by means of indirect heating during the preparation process, previous to the pressing or flaking.
  
• Equipment certified by the EC for elements exposed to high pressure.
  
• Lateral heating chambers.
  
• Material passage system in each floor of mechanical command and external regulation.
  
• Steam aspiration system built in stainless steel.
  
• Independent manhole per floor.
  
• Main drive gear box of well known international trademark.
  
• Independent steam injection and individual condensate
• Axial bearing box for vertical shaft supporting.
  
• Specially designed scrapers in each floor.

Rotary Conditioner

Characteristics

• Solid rotary supporting wheels, thermally treated, mounted over bearings.
  
• Reinforced casing in the threaded band area.
  
• Main operation pinion - ring gear, mechanized.
  
• Steam chambers built in materials of certified quality, in accordance with international standards (EC).
  
• Exchange seamless tubes of certified quality.
  
• Automated feeding screw.
  
• Mechanical seal system in order to avoid material losses in the feeding screw.
  
• Rotary joint for steam injection and condensate collection.
  
• Material unloading hopper built completely in stainless steel.
  
• Safety axial wheels.
  
• Equipment certified by the EC for elements exposed to high pressure.
  
• Automation system with rotary frequency converter in order to improve loading capacity and permanence time.

Flaker

This equipment is designed to turn the broken oilseeds into thins flakes (from 0, 3 to 0,4mm) for the subsequent oil extraction through mechanical pressing or solvent extraction.

Characteristics

• Split tiltable bearing boxes which facilitate the dismantling of the rolls.
  
• System in order to bring together or move apart the rolls from each other through hydraulic cylinders of double effect.
  
• High quality rolls of unspecified hardness.
  
• Non-flaked recollection or conventional lateral closure systems.
  
• Roll scrapers of easy Access for its maintenance.
  
• Structure, casing and cover belts lined with acoustic insulation material.
  
• Roll adjustment hydraulic circuit with a safety valve system that loosens the rolls in the presence of foreign materials.
  
• Roll dismounting hydraulic system.
  
• Main drive by belts of 1 or 2 motors.
  
• Equipment for rolls and boards grinding completely automated.

Feeder

• Rotary type, with permanent magnetic trap.
  
• Anti-magnetic threaded roll.
  
• Mixing shaft for product homogenization.
  
• Automatic feeding system with variable speed roll.

Expander

The inclusion of the expanding process increases the production capacity between 20-30%, without altering the final fat values, reducing the electricity, steam and solvent consumption, obtaining crude oil of higher quality.

Characteristics

• Increased body diameter per expanded processed ton.
  
• Axial bearing stress supporting box independent from the reducer.
  
• Coupling set with mechanical protection.
  
• First quality main operation reducer.
  
• Autonomous lubrication system for axial bearing and operation reducer.
  
• Different alternatives for product conformation:
  
• Drilled dies.
  
• Mechanically commanded threaded cone.
  
• Hydraulically commanded threaded cone.

Feeder / Automation

• Feeding screw of variable speed.
  
• Independent operation drive.
  
• Automation system that keeps the constant load and steam supply to the equipment.
  
• Feeding starter needless of permanent supervision.
  
• Parameter regulation program of remote operation.
  
• Feeding failures automatic detection.

Screens

These equipments are used for the classification and pre-cleaning of the seeds as well as for the separation of sunflower hulls after the dehulling process.

Characteristics

• Self-portable equipment.
  
• Self-cleaning screen system.
  
• Solid body support.
  
• Metallic screw body.
  
• Aspiration system over screen.
  
• Front aspiration channel.

Feeder / Automation

• Rotary feeder.
  
• Independent main drive.
  
• Automated feeding electronic control.
  
• Parameter regulation program of remote operation.
  
• Feeding failures automatic detection.

Orbital Screen

The orbital screens are designed to process high volumes of raw material by separating the material in consecutive stages in accordance to the size of the particles. By means of a rotary - oscillating movement of the surface of the screen, which works in combination with a system of cleaning meshes, the equipment provides a high production capacity and a considerable increase of the efficiency of the cleaning process.

The orbital screens are manufactured in models which go from one to five surfaces of the screen, with meshes which cover a range of ” to 325 of separation

Due to the fact that the entrance sleeve of the material to be processed is fixed, the periodic refill of the flexible sleeves, which are in used in the traditional screens, is practically eliminated.

Its design and functional characteristics permits a constant work during long times and with minimal maintenance, being equipment of a very simple operation and with high level of reliability.

Horizontal Dryer / Cooler

Equipment for drying / cooling of expanded material during the process prior to solvent extraction as well as the drying and cooling of extracted meal, pellets or granulated material prior to storage.


Characteristics

• Tunnel-like equipment of variable modulus number for drying/cooling material by crossed air flows.
• Self cleaning stationary grooved floor.
  
• Material conveyor chains.
  
• Stainless steel cover.
  
• Stainless steel feeding hopper especially designed for the equipment’s automation.
  
• Mechanical system for layer thickness grading.
  
• Stainless steel pipes and aspiration system with their corresponding butterfly valves for air flow regulation.
  
• Feeding, material progress and layer thickness uniformity automated systems.
  
• Heat exchanger / radiators for equipment’s incoming air heating.
  
• Cyclone separator for fines precipitation.
  
• Rotary valves with stainless steel rotor under cyclone separators.

Rotary Dryer

Equipment destined to dry the meal coming from the DT, previous to the pelleting process.


Characteristics

• Solid rotary supporting wheels, thermally treated, mounted over bearings.
  
• Reinforced casing in the threaded band area.
  
• Main operation pinion – ring gear, mechanized.
  
• Steam chambers built in materials of certified quality, in accordance with international standards (EC).
  
• Exchange seamless tubes of certified quality.
  
• Automated feeding screw.
  
• Mechanical seal system in order to avoid material losses in the feeding screw.
  
• Rotary joint for steam injection and condensate collection.
  
• Material unloading hopper built completely in stainless steel.
  
• Safety axial wheels.
  
• Equipment certified by the EC for elements exposed to high pressure.
  
• Automation system with rotary frequency converter in order to improve loading capacity and permanence time.
  
• Stainless steel chimney and gas decompression chamber for moisture exhausting by natural draft with no need of additional energy consumption avoiding dust in the environment.

Extruder

Oilseed conditioning previous to the vegetable oil pressing system process. This process avoids the placement of boilers for the product conditioning.

Characteristics

• Self-supported equipment.
  
• Extruder body of easy accessible and exchangeability.
  
• Worm and diffusers built of high erosion resistance alloy.
  
• Axial bearing support box for axis force support.
  
• Independent lubrication system for axial bearing support box and drive reducer.

Feeder / Automation

• Feeding screw of variable speed.
  
• Independent operation drive.
  
• Vertical volume compressor for constant load of press shaft.
  
• Electronic control of automated feeder and load over press shaft.
  
• Feeding starter needless of permanent supervision.
  
• Parameter regulation program of remote operation.
  
• Feeding failures automatic detection.

Foot Screen

Equipment destined to the separation of solids in suspension present oil extracted by mechanical pressing.

Characteristics

• Self-supported equipment.
  
• Self-cleaning classification screen.
  
• High decantation volume.

Granulator

Soybean or sunflower pellet production from meal coming from the extraction by solvent section.

Characteristics

• Increased body diameter per processed ton.
  
• Coupling set with mechanical protection.
  
• First quality main operation reducer.
  
• Lubrication system for axial bearings and operation reducers.
  
• Conformation system by means of easy to exchange drilled dies.
  
• Minimum maintenance cost per ton of processed seed.
  
• Lower energy and steam consumption (up to 30 / 35%) per ton of processed seed.
  

Feeder / Automation

• Feeding screw of variable speed.
  
• Independent operation control.
  
• Automation system that keeps a constant load of the equipment and steam supply.
  
• Feeder starter needless of permanent supervision.
  
• Parameter regulation program of remote operation.
  
• Feeding failures automatic detection.

Beater / Sifter

This equipment is destined to perform two different operations during the oil extraction process.

Beater
Separation and recovery of sunflower seed particles that remain stuck on hulls after the dehulling process.

Sifter
Grades extracted meals.

Conveyors and Storage

• Advanced development in grain dryers.
  
• Self-Cleaning and modular constructions.
  
• Design, engineering, manufacture and mounting of continuous flow conveyor systems for bulk materials.
  
• Chain conveyors.
  
• Belt conveyors.
  
• Silos / Storage buildings / Bucket elevators.
  
• Screw conveyors.

Fumes and Dust Collection Systems

• Industrial ventilation.
  
• Design, development and manufacturing of dust collection, fines and process residue systems.
  
• Environmental treatment systems.

Automation and Process Control. MT and BT Electric Work

• Electrical projects.
  
• Automation, control and networks.
  
• Energy control.
  
• Sub-station screen supervision and command.
  
• Screen supervision distribution systems.
  
• Electrical engineering work.
  
• Electrical infrastructures.
  
• Transformer stations.