How to get oil from rice bran? What modern methods are used for extracting rice bran oil?

Rice bran is the by-product of rice mill. Usually 100tons rice can produce around 6-7 tons rice bran. And the oil content rate of rice bran is a little low, around 13%-20%. But because of its rich nutrient substance, rice bran oil is very popular among consumers. Many investors are interested in rice bran oil production business. Here, Doing Company would explain how to extract oil from rice bran by modern methods?

Rice bran oil

Since the oil content rate of rice bran is not too high, so usually we don't suggest customers to start small scale rice bran oil processing plant like 1-20 tons per day, because if adopting pressing method, the residual oil rate is about 6-7%, which will lead to waste a lot. As for input capacity above 20 tons per day, you can adopt pretreatment then solvent extraction method, which includes cleaning, puffing, cooking and drying processes, then using N-hexane to extract oil from rice bran. And the most important is that the final oil residue is lower than 1%. 

The machines used to extract oil from rice bran

After getting the crude rice bran oil and meal through solvent extraction method, you can sell meal as animal feed, and deep process the crude rice bran oil through rice bran oil refinery plant. And please note that crude rice bran oil is easy to get rancid, so it is not suitable to store for long time, better refine it soon.

Three types of rice bran oil refinery plant

Doing Company can provide various types of rice bran oil refinery plant with different input capacity for you, which can remove the gum, acid, pigment and bad smell. But crude rice bran oil contains around 1%-5% wax, which influences the flavor of rice bran oil, so if your final market holds high standard for the final product oil, you also need rice bran oil dewaxing plant to further remove the wax, and improve oil quality.

The plate filter used in rice bran oil dewaxing plant

I believe that you are more clear about how the rice bran oil is got now. If you are near rice mill and can easily get enough rice bran, also interested in start this business, welcome to contact us for more information and guidance!