Citrus Oil Vacuum Distillation System with Built-In Operating Condition Flexibility

Polk County, FL
Motivated by the goal of increasing its current distillation capacity of citrus oils, a leader in the supply of plant-based derivatives and aroma chemicals (“the client”) engaged Koch Modular for the design and manufacture of a citrus oil vacuum distillation system. Among the many specifications, the client requested that the system operate in continuous mode and in batch mode, as well as have the flexibility to recover higher boiling compounds from the citrus wax and residue stream.