Systems and methods for improved rendering

A method for improved rendering of animal products and a whole animal, the method comprising:

• grinding and pre-breaking the animal products and the whole animal in a grinder and a pre-breaker machine, the pre-breaker machine configured to break up the animal products and the whole animal and the grinder configured to form ground materials;
• heating the ground materials in one or more steam jacketed tubes;
• transporting the ground materials through the one or more steam jacketed tubes, as the ground materials liquefy, by applying a high pump pressure and liquefying the heated ground materials transported through the one or more steam jacketed tubes,
• wherein a slurry is created;
• pressing the slurry utilizing a progressive cavity pump without further mechanical action to separate protein from oil and water,
• wherein the progressive cavity pump moves the slurry through the one or more steam-jacketed tubes,
• wherein the progressive cavity pump pushes approximately 8,000 pounds of the ground materials per hour, and
• wherein the progressive cavity pump utilizes a motor having approximately 1.25 horsepower;
• applying pressure to the protein that has been separated from the oil and water via a protein press, thereby forming additional protein and removing residual liquid from the additional protein;
• transferring the removed residual liquid to the decanter;
• transferring the additional protein to a protein dryer to form a dried protein;
• and
• milling the dried protein to form a powder protein.

A method for improved rendering of animal products and a whole animal, the method comprising:

• grinding and pre-breaking the animal products and the whole animal in a grinder and a pre-breaker machine, the pre-breaker machine configured to break up the animal products and the whole animal and the grinder configured to form ground materials;
• transporting and heating the ground materials in one or more steam-jacketed tubes to create a slurry, as the ground materials liquefy;
• supplying pressure utilizing a progressive cavity pump without further mechanical action to move the slurry through the one or more steam jacketed tubes,
• wherein the progressive cavity pump pushes approximately 8,000 pounds of the ground materials per hour,
• wherein the progressive cavity pump utilizes a motor having approximately 1.25 horsepower, and
• wherein protein is separated from oil and water;
• transferring the oil and water to a decanter;
• removing residual solids from the oil and water to form a solution;
• removing water and extremely fine materials having a size below approximately 10 to 20 microns from the oil by centrifuging the solution to remove water and fine materials from the oil, thereby eliminating use of settling tanks;
• employing a vertical separator to further remove waste water and sludge from the oil;
• employing a waste water oil separator to further separate oil from waste water;
• and
• employing a sludge oil separator to further separate oil from the sludge.