Blog - Cavitation and process intensification - p7

Our distributor CaviMax has just started the tests with the laboratory cavitator for water treatment application!

A new ROTOCAV lab unit, the ROTOLAB, ready to be dispatched! Test your own processes with this portable unit and see with your own eyes what cavitation can do!

Improve the transesterification for biodiesel production with ROTOCAV! The reaction has been carried out using palm and waste cooking oils; ROTOCAV enhances the kinetics which completes much more quickly than traditional methods.
Rapid test shows that ROTOCAV produces high quality biodiesel.
All the biodiesel samples respect the ASTM standard with fatty acid methyl ester contents of >99% m/m for both feedstocks!
Detailed analysis:
https://www.epic-srl.com/en/cavitation-technologies/biodiesel-production
Our scientific paper:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1350417716301420

USE ROTOCAV to extract bioactive substances from leaves!!
ROTOCAV can extract OLEUROPEIN from OLIVE LEAVES. It reaches a yield of: 18,5% olea (crude extracts), extracting oleuropein with WATER!!

ROTOCAV – The latest version of one of the most efficient hydrodynamic cavitation systems. It is able to induce high and controlled effects of CAVITATION, SHEAR STRESS and TURBULENCE.
The generation and implosion of micro-bubbles, (that occur during cavitation phenomena induced by the ROTOCAV treatment) give to the processed fluid an energetic input able to promote many reactions and many physical phenomena.

Promote oxidative polymerization of oils with ROTOCAV!! As you can see in our scientific paper:
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/gps.ahead-of-print/gps-2016-0142/gps-2016-0142.xml
The reaction time decreases by about 1/3 in respect to the traditional process. This is possible because the ROTOCAV increases mass transfer, decreasing the air bubble size into micro and nano bubbles!!