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 Rugged & Robust
Design |
 A project is expected to last life long. It is, therefore,
essential that material of construction and strength of
the materials selected for plant & fabrication has
to be such that least replacement is needed and the life
span of the equipment exceeds well over two to three decades.
Further the designs of equipment are to be such as to
fulfil this requirement. Mecpro emphasis on these points
is established by the fact that plants supplied even two
decades back (when others have not even been existing)
have still been operating just like new plants. A visit
to these plants will reveal as much.
| Simplicity
in Operation |
MECPRO plants are fully automatic and one operator is
required for starting & stopping the plant and to
supervise that no controls are mal-functioning. Even an
inexperienced person can be easily trained as an operator.
This simplicity in operation is attained by inerlocking
system, safety controls warning alarms etc. and the synchronising
of various processing steps in the extraction plant.
| Safety |
Solvent used in the Extraction Plant is n-hexane which
is an highly volatile and inflammable liquid. This fact
is given highest importance in designing MECPRO plans
for safety consideration. Nothing is left to chance and
hence safety record of MECPRO plant is the best. MECPRO
follows NFPA (National Fire Protection Association of
USA) Code in designing the Plants and their recommendations
are incorporated in MECPRO plants and thus MECPRO would
not compromise on safety to make the plant cheaper.
| Solvent
Consumption |
 Theoretically, whatever quantity of solvent which is used
for extraction is recoverable after distillation of miscella
and desolventisation of extracted meal and as such same
recovered solvent lost through venting, in finished products
and in leaks. MECPRO designs ensure full control of these
sources of solvent loss to keep it minimum. Highly expensive
but very effective design of oil absorber for vent gases
wherein a large film surface of absorbing oil is exposed
to the vent gases ensures maximum absorption of solvent
vapours from vent gases before passing into atmosphere.
Specially designed mechanical seals on moving shafts ensures
no leakages of solvent. Liberal cooling areas of vapours
condensors ensure maximum condensation and minimum solvent
vapours in the vent. All these measures and many more
ensure that MECPRO Plants work with lowest solvent consumption.
| Higher
Recovery of Oil |
In U.S.A., Europe and other Countries vegetable oil is
cheap and hence they do not give much importance for reducing
the oil content of deoiled meal to minimum possible extent
so to improve upon the recovery of oil. Their intention
of extracting the oil is to increase the protein content
of meal in which they are interested. In India, Vegetable
Oil is highly expensive and therefore the stress is to
extract as much oil as possible leaving very minimum in
the deoiled cake. In view of this requirement, MECPRO
supplies a much bigger extractor for a given capacity
of plant than others. This has the advantage of not only
higher recovery of oil but also the easy expansion of
the plant at future date without any major modifications
in the extractor. In designing the extractor itself no
expense is spared (making it an expensive design) to ensure
smooth working of band conveyor giving clear miscella
Stainless Steel wire mesh lined on the band conveyor,
S.S. cover joints, S.S. side seals ensure the same. Variable
speed mechanism affords a high flexibility to maintain
optimum operating conditions (extraction time) for a given
material. High and low level controls in extractor feed
hopper seals off the extractor from atmospheric air.
| Accessories |
 A solvent extraction plant requires a large number of
bought out items such as pumps, pipes, valves, cables,
motors, gear boxes, chain, wheels etc. A good design of
a plant involves proper selection of sizes of all these
items. General tendency is to keep these sizes to minimum
to reduce the over all price of the plant. But MECPRO
takes care that there are adequate averages in the sizes
of these boughtout items so that during future expansion
of the plant these items need not be replaced. Further
all bought out items conform to prevailing I.S.I. standards.
| Utility
Consumptions |
Excellent synchronising of various processing steps coupled
with the fact that many heat saving devices are incorporated
in a MECPRO plant ensures lowest steam and power consumptions
per tonne of raw material processed. With highest in-built
capacity, lowest utility consumptions of solvent, steam
and power, lowest residual oil in deoiled meal MECPRO
Solvent Extraction plant is sure way to success in this
competitive world. It is for this soild reason that seasoned
industrialists have always opted for MECPRO plants.
| Mecpro
Clientels |
MECPRO boasts of 60 client as on to-day. MECPRO plants
are processing various raw materials viz. Cottonseed,
Rice Bran, Soybeans, Sunflower, Neem Seed, Mahua Seed,
Salseed, Rape Seed, Mustard Seed and as on.
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