How many sunflower seeds are needed to make one kg of sunflower oil?

The calculation of how many sunflower seeds are needed to produce one kg of sunflower seed oil is mainly related to the oil content of sunflower seeds and the extraction method of sunflower seed oil. If the direct pressing method is used, we need to use 2.273 kg of sunflower seeds, and if the pre-pressing solvent extraction method is used, we need to use 2.04 kg of sunflower seeds. Next, let's analyze it in detail.

Two different typs of sunflower oil production method

Sunflower seeds have a high oil content, ranging from 45% to 55%. In order to facilitate calculation, we uniformly set the oil content of sunflower oil to 50%. As we all know, there are two methods to make sunflower oil, which are physical direct pressing method and pre-pressing solvent extraction method. According to the different methods of sunflower oil extraction, the oil yield of sunflower oil will be different.

1. Physical direct pressing method;

Physical direct pressing method refers to the use of sunflower oil press machine for mechanical pressing. If your daily processing capacity is less than 10 tons a day, you may only need a sunflower oil press machine. The final residual oil rate is around 6%, the oil content of sunflower seeds is 50%, then the oil yield is 44%. Through this calculation method, it can be calculated that 440kg of sunflower oil can be obtained by processing one ton of sunflower seeds. In other words, to obtain one kg of sunflower oil requires 2.273kg of sunflower seeds.

Small scale sunflower oil processing machine

The calculation of how much sunflower oil can be obtained by processing 1 ton sunflower seeds:

1 ton sunflower seeds * oil extraction rate (Oil content rate- residual oil rate) = 1 ton sunflower seeds*(50%-6%)=0.44 ton sunflower oil

The calculation of how many sunflower seeds are needed to make one kg of sunflower oil:

1 kg of sunflower oil /0.44≈2.273 kg of sunflower seeds

If your daily processing capacity is more than 30 tons a day, Henan Glory Company suggests you purchase the complete set of sunflower oil pressing machine, including sunflower seeds pretratment machine and sunflower oil pressing machine. If so, the final residual oil rate is less 6%, so we may not need as many sunflower seeds to get 1 kg of sunflower oil.

2. Pre-pressing solvent extraction method

If the pre-pressing solvent extraction method is used, it generally means that the production scale of the sunflower oil production workshop is relatively large.

Through the process of solvent extraction workshop, the residual oil rate in meal is less than 1%, if the oil content is 50%, the oil yield is 49%, 1 ton of sunflower seeds can get 490 kg of sunflower seed oil. So to get one kg of sunflower oil, you need 2.04kg of sunflower seeds.

Sunflower oil solvent extraction plant

The calculation of how much sunflower oil can be obtained by processing 1 ton sunflower seeds:

1 ton sunflower seeds * oil extraction rate (Oil content rate- residual oil rate) = 1 ton sunflower seeds*(50%-1%)=0.49 ton sunflower oil

The calculation of how many sunflower seeds are needed to make one kg of sunflower oil:

1 kg of sunflower oil /0.49≈2.204 kg of sunflower seeds

If you want to know more about sunflower oil processing equipment, sunflower oil solvent extraction plant and related process, Henan Doing company welcomes your consultation.