Black Soldier Fly Larvae in Vincent Screw Press

In July 2011, a client flew to Tampa, bringing with him two 5 gallon pails of Black Soldier Fly larvae. These were brought as checked luggage. It is a option to remember for transporting samples.
The purpose of our experiments with the CP-4 was to see if, with steam injection, we could separate the lipids (fat). Apparently the larvae have too much fat.
The larvae went through the press very well. It looked like we were squeezing all the juice from inside the bugs through the screen. The cake being produced was mostly the outer skin of the larvae, which is chitin. We got about 70% by weight press liquor at 28 rpm, 20 psi cone pressure, with strong steam injection, using a tapered shaft screw in the press.
We had two buckets, one with larvae that had been killed by freezing, and one with live critters. The live ones could not move fast enough to get out of the press, but they would have gotten off the tray in the moisture balance oven. (So we froze them in order to get a moisture analysis.)
The as-received larvae were about 78% moisture, and there were 13% solids in the press liquor. The press cake was interesting: with very low cone pressure and low steam, the press cake came out 73% moisture. But with 20 psi cone pressure and heavy steam, the moisture content of the press cake dropped to 63%.

[@IndahPonsel-lj5lf]

GOOD JOB

[@desertdog64]

I would say the outer skin of the grub should be very high concentrated calcium, since the live grub is 5%.

[@WalidGabrnoureen]

will part of the protein denatured due to high temp.!!!?

[@josepmedina536]

Hello, I'm interested in this press. How much cost and ho much production do?

[@vintageb8]

Is this the method to defat BSF larvae? How was the result? Can you scale this up?

[@VincentCorp1931]

Irwan, Please send me an email at [e-mail].
Bob Johnston, P.E.
Vincent Corporation
Tampa, Florida USA

[@ratnaayupermata2632]

Can i know the convension rate before and after?

[@luongbui4547]

👍👍👍

[@plantopolis641]

I like your video so much, can you link me to your client ? I am trying to start a business like his

[@newjx]

How to separate the chitin from the cake?

[@kinglouie8554]

Yeah how

[@Doration23]

Can you upload a video pressing citrus pulp with and without lime? Thank you in advance

[@VincentCorp1931]

+Dora Mgk
Thank you for subscribing and submitting a video request.
Vincent got its start in the early 30s with the Florida citrus industry. In fact, founder Dan Vincent patented the use of lime to aide in dewatering citrus (orange) peel in 1940!
We don't have any videos of citrus pulp, but did a series of tests on pulp (no lime) some time ago for Coca Cola in Canada and The Netherlands. We got a little liquid out of the pulp, but it still came out at 96% moisture. In the end, they were not able to do what they had hoped. The addition of lime is generally not cost effective in this case. For more details on that testing, please email bob at vincentcorp dot com.

[@xboxinmyveins3821]

Why are you doing this?

[@sahanig1365]

Sir can you supply same machine to India I like to buy one

[@thenauticalnautilus1500]

What do you get from this?

[@ruyvieira104]

I feel kind of sad for them

[@mostafa4677]

عصارة الدود

[@mohamedebrahim-mc3wx]

علشان بعد كده تستخدمه كعلف للدواجن والأسماك وتقلل تكلفة العلف وتنخفض الأسعار

[@nirmal6362]

guessing Alien highloard do the same to humans once reached to 10 billions on plant Earth :)

[@laura1215zelaznog]

You can hear the larvae screams and then their mothers coming to mour them smh