SRS Engineering's quarter century of experience in the process industry, along with our reputation for state-of-the-art design and engineering, have propelled SRS to the forefront of the biodiesel industry.
Today we are uniquely positioned to deliver everything from small turnkey biodiesel plants to large-scale biodiesel refineries.
What Makes SRS Stand Out Among the Competition?
One of SRS' core strengths is in engineering biodiesel plants that operate with the highest level of efficiency to create maximum plant productivity. SRS Engineering's biodiesel plants are fully automated requiring minimal human involvement. Our advanced technology allows plants to incorporate various different high Free Fatty Acid (FFA) feedstocks, giving the plant more flexibility and profitability.
Why Choose SRS?
SRS' engineering staff is comprised of 60+ ISO9001:2008 certified engineers, working as a team to help optimize the plants design and controls, resulting in a favorable outcome to the client's bottom line. Specializing in electrical, process, application, project, mechanical, chemical, civil, structural, and control engineering.
SRS' experience, technology and reputation make us a leader in the biodiesel industry, providing the following services to our clientele.Turnkey Biodiesel Refineries
SRS Engineering understands the steps required to build and maintain a biodiesel plant. From site selection and permitting to producing ASTM D 6751 fuel, SR has the capability and the facilities to complete every aspect of your biodiesel plant construction.
- Plant Size Determination
- Selecting an Appropriate Site
- Permitting
- Biodiesel Plant Engineering
- Determining your Biodiesel Equipment Needs
- Plant Installation
- Quality and BQ-900 Considerations
- Plant Start-Up and Training
- Planning for the Future
SRS Engineering offers consulting services, revamping and expansion services to challenged and incomplete biodiesel plants. SRS' biodiesel engineers can help you determine your current plants problems and make appropriate recommendations to get your plant up and running at its peak performance.
Many of our clients come to SRS as a result of their dissatisfaction with their existing biodiesel technology. SRS' trained team of biodiesel professionals provide a high level of expertise to assist challenged biodiesel plants to become functioning and profitable once again.
Biodiesel Reactors
SRS Engineering utilizes cavitation technology. A reactor skid system that employs leading technology allowing our reactors to achieve the following.
- Feedstock Flexibility
- Simultaneous Use of Feedstocks
- High FFA Feedstocks
- Full Conversion into Biodiesel
- Instantaneous Reaction
- High Yield Biodiesel
- High Quality Biodiesel
- Reduced Energy Consumption
High FFA Pretreatment
SRS Engineering has created the patent pending FSP-Series Acid Esterification Pretreatment System to enable new and existing plants the ability to incorporate multiple High FFA feedstocks
In todays market, having your plant be multi-feedstock capable is not only a competitive advantage...its a business necessity.
Whether it be animal fat based feedstocks such as beef tallow or chicken fat, or one of the new emerging feedstocks such as algae or jatropha, they all share one thing in common...FFA too high for base transesterification. SRS offers a scalable, continuous flow, skid-mounted system that can front-end any existing biodiesel system, efficiently converting FFA into usable oil with no yield loss.
Methanol Recovery
SRS Engineering's High Purity Methanol Recovery Systems true fractional distillation columns efficiently recover 99.9% of all unused methanol, returning it clean and dry to your bulk methanol tank at 99.9% purity, often a higher purity than the new methanol you can purchase and with no off-site reprocessing costs.
Only about half of the methanol used is actually consumed in the transesterification process, leaving the rest in the finished biodiesel and glycerin.
With today's high methanol costs, biodiesel producers simply cannot afford to throw away half of the methanol they purchase.
Everyone now is striving for ASTM compliant biodiesel. Leaving methanol in finished biodiesel has another bad side effect...its wall fail the ASTM Flash Point Test.
Biodiesel Distillation
Are you concerned about passing Cold Flow Filtration?SRS has the answer to your problem with our ASVB-Series Distillation System, which distills your biodiesel, creating the purest biodiesel possible. By distilling your biodiesel, you can be back in business in no time with ASTM compliant biodiesel.
Advantages of Biodiesel Distillation are...
- Creates product homogeneity
- Creates a superior biodiesel when using both virgin and animal feedstocks
- Market differentiation by creating the purest biodiesel possible
- Takes sulfur out of high sulfur feedstocks like beef tallow and checken fat (up to 80 ppm)
- Meets ASTM Specifications
Solvent Extraction
Solvent extraction is the process which involves extracting oil from oil-bearing materials by treating it with a low boiler solvent as opposed to extracting the oils by mechanical pressing methods.
SRS' solvent extraction method recovers almost all the oils and leaves behind only 0.5% to 0.7% residue oil in the raw material, as opposed to mechanical pressing, which may leave a residual oil anywhere from 6% to 14%.SRS' solvent extraction method can be applied directly to any low oil content raw materials or can be used to extract pre-pressed oil cakes obtained from high oil content materials.
Glycerin Purification
SRS has designed a high-purity glycerin purification system, giving biodiesel plants the ability to create additional profits through purification of their crude glycerin. SRS' system can produce high quality glycerin in high yield while maximizing energy efficiency. The system can take crude glycerin with a purity rating of 80% to a technical grade glycerin of >90%.
Glycerin naturally occurs during the biodiesel production process and is specifically produced in the transesterification process. Glycerin produced at this stage is about 80% pure still containing contaminants like soap, methanol, and water.
The purification process must take place in order to turn this glycerin into a usable state for emerging uses.
Glycerin currently has over 1,500 known uses in many different industries ranging from foods, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics (USP Grade), to paints, coatings, and other industrial types of applications (technical grade).
Engineering, CAD, Programming Services
SRS can provide you with a wide variety of affordable engineering, CAD, and programming services for different industries.
- Electrical
- Civil
- Mechanical
- Structural
- Process
- Control
- Chemical
- Environmental
- Instrumentation
We take pride in the quality of the products and servies we offer. Some of these services include...
- Piping Engineering
- Instrumentation Engineering
- CAD Services
- Documentation and Manuals
- Structural Engineering
SRS is Committed to Providing You With the Highest Level of Customer Satisfaction Possible. Please Contact us Today for Your Free Quote.
800-497-5841 or 951-526-2239