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 Our facility is situated in the beautiful Texas hill country. The cedar grows naturally on the hill side as you can see in the background. The cedar which is cleared by the rancehers to provide grazing area for the cattle ranching is collected by local wood haulers and brought to us. |
 This is the biomass-fired steam generating apparatus. The unit in front is a "Dutch oven" type furnace for burning the waste biomass (fine-ground spent wood) from the distillation process. The Dutch oven is connected to the boiler center tube by a refractory lined duct and provides the heat for the production of 6000 lbs of steam per hour. The steam is piped at 100psi to a battery of stills located in an adjacent building. A large fan located on top of an ash seperator provides the induced draft for the combustion air and the seperation of ashes. |
 This is the front view of the biomass burning "Dutch oven" which provides heat for the steam boiler. In here temperatures average around 3000 degees F resulting in a complete cumbustion of the matierial and a very clean combustion gas. |
 Back view of the number 2 boiler. |
 This is a picture of Texarome's vacuume fractionation plant, which uses a packed column to redistill and fractionate the essential oils into their different components. The fractions are then blended back together according to customers' desired specifications. The process is also used for simple redistiallation and rectification of oils. |
 View of giant wood chipper built by Texarome. |
 This is a view of the stills and the oil recievers from the bottom level of the facility. These stills are loaded from the top level and can be used for a variety of raw materials besides cedar. Other materials distilled are verginian cedar, juniper leaf, coriander seeds, or malaleuca leaves. If you are interested in toll distiallation please see our Toll distillation page. |
 This is the top view of the battery of stills. Each lid can be opened for raw material loading. The pipes that come out of the top of the lids carry the steam/oil mixture which goes through a water cooled condensor. The condensate goes to the oil recievers, where the oil is seperated by gravity. |
 Inside view of Texarome's continuous distllation process. |
 This is the side veiw of the number 2 boiler showing the induced draft fans and the the cyclonic ash seperator. |
 View of number 1 biomass fired boiler and furnace and backup fuel tank. |
 View driving up to the facility. |
 This is plant equipment under construction at Texarome's fabrication shop. If you would like more information on having a plant fabricated for you, please visit our Plant Construction page. |
 To increase productivity we designed and built our own wood chipping "hog" with an extra large hopper to accomodate the bucket of a front end loader. The wood is then ground up into sawdust-sized particles and stored in a large bin prior to the distillation process. |
 These two large tanks are stanless steel batch stills under construction. When using the conventional batch distillation process, these would be filled with raw material and injected with steam. These paticular stills were built for Jacosa, now operating in Haiti. |
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(in English, French, German or Spanish) Phone (830)-232-6079 or toll free (800) 544-1363 Fax (830) 232-5716 E-mail: texarome@texarome.com P.O. Box 159, 1.5 miles East Hwy. 337 Leakey, Texas 78873 |