At-sea trials a success for new krill oil extraction process

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THAROS, A CHILE-BASED krill utilisation consultancy, has finished the onboard trialling of its novel process for extracting oils from krill caught in the South Antarctic Ocean. "We have successfully finished our at-sea pilot stage," says general manager Dimitri Sclabos, who is one of the inventors of the technique. "Our programme consisted of running the entire process using small scale equipment which mimics the commercial sized layout. We made crucial progress from what was tested on land. We thenoperated the system onboard a factory trawler in South Atlantic waters dealing with real sea and resource conditions. "We are now ready to move to commercial scale. We are very excited with the outcome of what we started several years ago."