What is the purpose of sunflower oil refinery plant?

The main purposes of sunflower oil refinery plant are: purification, storage time extension, market space expansion, and market value enhancement.

1)Purification: Remove harmful and useless impurities in squeezed crude sunflower oil or leaching crude sunflower oil and achieve higher edible oil quality standards.

2)Storage time extension: Remove excess water in oils, extend the storage time of sunflower oil.

3) Market space expansion: Improve the flavor and taste of edible sunflower oil, an then can be sold to a larger market.

4) Market value enhancement: High-quality sunflower oil can have higher prices and higher profits.

How to achieve the goal of sunflower oil refining? Usually we need to go through 4 main refining steps. Next, I will introduce to you the purpose of each step of crude sunflower oil refining process in turn.

Sunflower oil refining machine

Step1. Degumming

In this step, we add hot water to dissolve colloidal impurities in crude sunflower oil to remove excess phospholipids and obtain purer sunflower oil;

Step2. Deacidification

Due to the crude oil after degumming still contains excessive free fatty acids， so we need to add alkali to deacidify, let out the soap stock after settling and obtain refined sunflower oil and make the color more vivid ;

Step3. Decolorization

Then, we add white clay as an adsorbent to remove pigment in the crude sunflower oil and filter with a leaf filter after full reaction to improve the color of the oil and to obtain refined bleached sunflower oil.

Step4. Deodorization

Finally, the odor and part of free fatty acid and excessive water in crude sunflower oil were removed by distillation to improve the quality and the flavor of the sunflower oil further and obtain edible sunflower oil. After this series of processing, we will finally get edible sunflower oil.

Crude edible oil refining process flow

Now maybe you have a general understanding about the sunflower oil refining steps and their purpose. If you have questions in sunflower oil refining process, welcome to contact us. Henan Glory Oils & Fats Engineering Co., Ltd will serve you wholeheartedly.