Waste extraction process offers sustainable alternative to Palm oil
Asynt report how Revive Eco (Glasgow, Scotland) are using their ReactoMate ATOM jacketed lab reactor and CondenSyn MAXI system to scale-up an innovative patent-pending process that allows them to strip out an oil from waste coffee grounds which has a very similar fatty acid profile to palm oil.

Many products from cosmetics to food and drink, contain palm oil as a key ingredient – the production of which has a devastating impact on our rainforests and the eco systems that depend on them. Revive Eco’s coffee-derived alternative to palm oil offers the same versatile application benefits whilst diverting matter from landfill and ultimately protecting the planet.

Dawn Thompson, senior process chemist at Revive Eco commented “Until relatively recently we were only able to make the coffee oil on a small scale in the lab. Growing awareness of the need for sustainability, particularly in the cosmetics and food and drink industry, meant the demand for our coffee oil and the coffee oil products was increasing rapid ...