CompacTropha®: Efficient and kind to the environment

Productive, compact and innovative: the new mobile container pressing unit CompacTropha® is able to process a total of 400 kilogram Jatropha seed every hour by means of two integrated presses and is able to directly produce energy on site in a second step. Up to 400 kilowatt of energy is extracted from the hourly yield of 140 litres crude oil – sufficient to supply 24 hours of energy to an African village including all its public buildings such as schools or hospitals, for example.

Up until recently, oil extraction was only possible by exporting the seeds, now, however, oil is not only extracted directly on site but it is also further processed into energy in a second container with the help of a generator. This revolutionary technique is made possible by directly combining two mobile screw extrusion presses with a generator creating a self-sustaining unit.

CompacTropha® offers a cheap, environmentally friendly and flexible solution which
can primarily be used in rural countryside areas of tropical developing and newly industrialised countries wherever Jatropha is cultivated and harvested.

A further Jatropha project from Maschinenfabrik Reinartz to optimise the production
process is being promoted by the German Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology according to a resolution passed by the
German Federal Parliament.