	US 12,281,281 B2
	Edible oil refining
Michael Maiworm, Hamburg (DE); and Armin Willem-Friedrich Hermann Tarnow, Rotterdam (NE)
Assigned to Cargill, Incorporated, Wayzata, MN (US)
Appl. No. 16/968,051
Filed by Cargill, Incorporated, Wayzata, MN (US)
PCT Filed Feb. 21, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/018944 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 6, 2020, PCT Pub. No. WO2019/165065, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 29, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 18157904 (EP), filed on Feb. 21, 2018; and application No. 18184132 (EP), filed on Jul. 18, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0071103 A1, Mar. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. C11B 3/14 (2006.01); B01D 3/00 (2006.01); B01D 3/16 (2006.01); B01D 19/00 (2006.01)

CPC C11B 3/14 (2013.01) [B01D 3/009 (2013.01); B01D 3/16 (2013.01); B01D 19/0015 (2013.01); B01D 2257/708 (2013.01)]

16 Claims

1. An oil refining equipment comprising a stripping column with packing wherein

a) the packing is having a specific surface of from 100 to 750 m²/m³,

b) the column has at least one entry for a stripping agent, and/or for the oil, and

c) the column has a height to diameter ratio from 0.1 to 10.