Oil milling - Oil extraction in hot pressure

Hot pressure

Flaker / Crusher

• seeds preparation

Cooker

• Heat the seed before oil extraction
• Vertical cooker
• Horizontal cooker

Press

• oleane screwpress
• MBU screwpress (2,4 - 700 tons / day)
• Oil milling plant in containers

Screening tank

• Cakes recycling, overflowing of the oil to the mixing tank
• Screening tank

Mixing tank

• Mixing tank and pump, overflowing of the oil to the filtration

Filter under hooper

• Filtred oil overflow to the security filter
• Vertical filter
• Plates filter

Cooler for cakes

• Intended to adapt the temperature of the product for the storage or an after treatment by crossing cool air in this one.

Security filter

• Last filtration stage, oil refining, oil output

Hot pressure ( Flaker/crusher + Cooker + Press + Filtration)

Advantages

   • Fat content in the cakes around 8%
   • Sediments recycling by overflowing in the cooker
   • Standard process
   • Rendering stability

Disadvantages

• Higher investment (cooker or elctricity)
• Strong phosphorus content in oil, need for a complementary treatment (Refining or estherification)

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