Alfa Laval Advanced Glycerol Treatment (AGT) systems turn low grade fats, oils or grease by-products into high quality biodiesel – allowing processors to pick and choose the lowest by-product or feedstock market price to increase overall profitability.

Alfa Laval’s AGT system is a pre-fabricated, turn-key biodiesel pre-treatment solution for virtually any existing transesterification plant – scalable for a capacity of 15 to 1,500 hl per day. The AGT system allows for source material flexibility as it increases vegetable and animal by-product value by reducing the free fatty acids (FFA) content down to 0.8%, resulting in a higher quality oil which is then easily processed into biodiesel fuel.

Knowing that by-product or feedstock prices represent the bulk of biodiesel production costs, the Alfa Laval AGT system provides feedstock flexibility to the price-volatile edible oil spot market – where processors now have flexibility to shop the fat and oil market for the lowest possible raw material cost – increasing overall plant profitability.

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The Alfa Laval AGT system provides flexibility on the plant output side. Processors can tap off the bio-refined oil at different stages of production and upgrading – i.e. when biodiesel is traded as an oleochemical for e.g. pharmaceu-ticals and cosmetics, forwarded to off-site biodiesel producers, or processed as mono-glycerides and diglycerides treated oil which is then ready for mixing as heavy fuel oil.

The modular, pre-fabricated AGT pre-treatment plant is characterized by low operational costs, high yield, heat recovery, low waste and emissions. No catalyst is needed, and it provides optimum use of surplus biodiesel glycerol output.

For more information, please contact

Ulf M. Johansson, Sales Manager, Biodiesel solutions

Tel. +46 (0) 707 558 06, [email protected]