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Rendering processes

US4966733A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 29, 1986
Grant dateOct 30, 1990
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Expiry dateApr 29, 2006

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA23J1/002
  • WIPO fieldFood chemistry
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A rendering process in which fats and oils are rendered from fat and oil bearing raw materials. The process comprises reducing the particle size of the raw material, heating the reduced raw material in a rendering vessel to a rendering temperature without the introduction of any process water and/or steam while establishing fluidization of the raw material within tallow resident in the rendering vessel and moving a flow of the heated material to a separator.

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