Historically, purification processes used in the degumming and pretreatment of food oils and fuel production feedstocks required substantial factory footprint and a high degree of complexity. These antiquated processes suffer yield losses that accumulate with each consecutive unit operation with oil lost to neutralization soap stock, clays, activated silica, and DE. Furthermore, the cost of…
read moreJoin Visionary Fiber Technologies (VFT) at the 2024 AOCS Annual Meeting & Expo in Montreal (April 28 to May 1, 2024) to learn about our revolutionary massive microfluidic systems, poised to transform conventional cleanup, separation, extraction and biocatalytic methods. Also, three of VFT's senior staff members will be presenting on a range of innovative topics…
read moreVFT has been awarded a CMI grant for a project that aims to enhance critical mineral separation for sustainable extraction.
read moreBiofuels offer a sustainable alternative to fossil fuel analogues and a path to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants in the transportation sector. Unlike Petroleum-derived fuels, biofuels can be synthesized to have a narrow distribution of molecular weights in the mixture which impacts important properties, such as boiling point, viscosity, cetane number, density,…
read moreVFT has begun to evaluate fiber reactor technology for the separation of nickel and cobalt from an acidic leach liquor representative of a lithium-ion battery recycling process. In preliminary experiments (Figure 2), a sulfate-based liquor with a total concentration of 1.0 g/L of cobalt and 1.0 g/L of nickel was stripped in a single pass…
read moreVFT, Inc has developed a cost-effective fiber reactor extraction process to remove iron impurity from feedstocks. A chloride based Pregnant Leach Solution with a total rare earth content of 89.2 g/L and a total iron impurity 560 mg/L was stripped of 99.8% iron contaminant after a single stage using solvent extraction (Figure 3). Losses of…
read moreVFT has developed a cost-effective fiber reactor purification process to prepare superior quality renewable fuel feedstocks (Figure 2). The Fiber Reactor renewable fuels package incorporates microchanel fiber reactors which effectively remove free fatty acids, metals, phospholipides chlorides and other water soluble groups to the specified targeted levels. As renewable fuel feedstock demand surges, waste fats…
read moreVFT has developed a mild and cost-effective fiber reactor edible oil purification process to obtain superior quality edible oils. The Fiber Reactor edible oil package incorporates a sequence of microchannel fiber reactors which effectively extract free fatty acids (FFA), hydratable phospholipids, and contaminants from crude vegetable oils to the specified targeted neutralization levels (≤0.5 wt.%…
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