Palm oil processing plant

As a professinal manufacturer of palm oil processing plant with the qualifications to design and manufacture palm oil machine, we offer extraction and refinery equipment for both red palm oil and palm kernel oil processing. We can handle1-120tph turnkey palm oil mill project, service covering palm oil mill plant design, machinery manufacturing, oil mill installation and commissioning, operation training etc. Palm oil production is a complex process which includes palm oil making, crude palm oil refining, and palm oil fractionation.

palm oil mill plant

Palm oil mill plant with capacity 30-120tph

Palm oil extraction process (also named palm oil making process)
The extraction of crude palm oil involves a series of processes starting with harvesting fresh fruit bunches from the plantations and ending with crude palm oil storage. Through sterilizing, threshing, digesting and pressing, crude palm oil will be pressed out in palm oil pressing machine (screw oil press). Each station of palm oil extraction machine uses different methods and machines. Browse through the details of palm oil extraction process in the following:

Process flow chart of palm oil extraction machine:

Palm oil extraction process flow chart

The process of palm oil extraction has 6 steps:
Palm fruit reception - harvest the palm fruit from the oil palm plantation
Palm oil sterilization - use water or steam t for palm fruit sterilization
Palm oil threshing - separate the palm fruit from the bunches by rotation or vibration
Palm oil digestion - crush the palm fruit to maximize the oil rate
Palm pulp pressing - utilize palm oil processing machines to extract palm oil
Palm oil clarification - remove foreign impurities from the final palm oil to get the crude palm oil
Palm oil storage - the final crude palm oil will be stored in specialized tank for further selling or transportation.

Types of palm oil extraction machine:
1,300-500kg/h palm oil press machine, 1tph double screw palm oil presser, 2tph double screw palm oil presser;

palm oil press machine

Palm oil press machine, 1tph double screw palm oil presser

2,1-5tph new technology palm oil making machine;

palm oil making machine

1-5tph palm oil processing plant 3d flow chart

3, 5-120tph palm oil mill plant;

palm oil mill plant

Large capacity palm oil mill plant

Palm oil refining technology:
Palm oil refining machine is to get rid of the harmful impurities and needless substances in the crude palm oil, aims at improving the oil storage stability, flavor and color. There are mainly four steps of palm oil refinery machine: degumming, deacidification, decolorization, and deodorization .The palm oil refining machine can be used to process other oil seeds of different capacities as well.

Palm oil refining process flow chart:

Palm oil refining process flow chart

Palm oil refining process introduction:
1.Degumming: this is the most important section of palm oil refinery machine, adding the water (there is a little P-acid in water) to remove the gum.
2.Deacidification:using alkali like (NaOH) to neutralize FFA in crude palm oil, during this process of palm oil refinery plant,it will produce soap stock , then separating it from the oil.
3.Decolorization:because there is pigment in crude palm oil, the oil color is dark. In order to lighten oil color, we need to use the white clay to absorb the pigment away, then using vibrating filter to separate the waste clay. If you want to get light color oil, you need to add more white clay. the oil color can be controlled by clay amount.
4.Deodorization:general speaking , the crude oil smells not good, it will affect oil storage and price. So we usually use the direct steam to take odors. At the meanwhile, there is about 0.5% water content in refined oil, because the high temperature in the deodorization pot, dehydration is also finished. After that, the final oil will be refined once again through safety filter.

Types of palm oil refining machine:
1.Batch type palm oil refining machine,suitable for small capacity like 1-2-3-5-10TPD
2.Semi-continuous palm oil refining machine,suitable for medium capacity like 10-50TPD
3.Full continuous palm oil refining machine,suitable for large capacity above 30TPD

Palm oil fractionation technology:
Palm oil fractionation technology is a new oil processing technology. Using palm oil fractionation technology can get 8℃,10℃,14℃,18℃,24℃,33℃,44℃,55℃ etc, different melting point's palm oil product. At the same time, it can also be used to do cottonseed oil, fish oil ,pork oil and other animal oils. This prominently improves the added value of the oil products, increase the economic benefit of enterprise.

Palm oil fractionation process flow chart:

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Palm oil fractionation process flow chart

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About palm oil :

red palm oil
Red palm oil

Palm oil is a kind of plant oil made from tropical woody plant-Palm. It is one of the largest produced, consumed and traded oils in the world, which is called The World’s Three Major Vegetable Oils together with soybean oil and rapeseed oil. Palm oil after pressing, refining and fractionation can get different melting point products, which are widely used in catering industry, food industry and oil & fat industry. As the main production areas of palm oil, Southeast Asia and Africa produces about 88% of the world's palm oil, while Indonesia, Malaysia and Nigeria are the world's top three palm oil producers. At present, China has become the world's largest palm oil importer, whose palm oil consumption is about 6 million tons per year, accounting for 20% of the total world market.