Abstract: The vegetable oil industry has enjoyed high demand for edible oil, as well as a growing market for biofuels such as renewable diesel (HVO). This has led to an increasing interest in degumming and refining using phospholipase enzymes. Since its introduction more than a decade ago, enzyme assisted seed oil degumming has been demonstrated, and is utilized at many plants around the globe for its benefit on yield increase and ease of processing. With the learnings gained from the field, enzyme producers have brought out new generations of products to improve performance, as well as meeting new requirements of the oil plants, such as lower chemical usage, less byproducts and higher ease of use.
One of the main barriers to more widespread adoption of enzymatic degumming continues to be capital expenditure and required plant down time. In order to bring the benefits of enzyme use to a broader audience, a novel degumming technique has been developed and tested at industrial scale: Low CAPEX enzyme assisted degumming. We would like to demonstrate the application of our Purifine® LM enzyme in such a process, along with the results and conclusions from industrial trials. The benefits that this technology can bring to soya crushing plants will also be explored.
