How to extract palm oil from palm fruit?
August 24, 2018 18:24/ FAQ/ leave a message
How to extract palm oil from palm fruit?
Palm oil extraction process is as follows:
Palm bunches → Sterilizing → Threshing → Crashing → Pressing → Subsidence and filtration
Palm oil extraction process flow chart
Description of palm oil extraction process：
The Fresh Fruit Bunches(FFB) is available after 3 yeas plantation. Palm fruits are sent into crude palm oil mill plant with following production process:
Palm fruit bunches
1. Plam fruit reception :
Transport palm fruit to palm fruit sterilization station after truck weighing.
Transport palm fruit to palm fruit sterilization station after truck weighing.
Transport palm fruit bunches to palm oil mill
2. Sterilizing :
In general, fresh fruit bunches should be sent into palm oil extraction equipment in 24 hours after harvest to prevent palm oil acid value increase caused by fatty enzymes. Palm bunches sterilizing also inactivate fatty enzyme with high temperature to prevent enzyme break palm oil chemical structure.
In general, fresh fruit bunches should be sent into palm oil extraction equipment in 24 hours after harvest to prevent palm oil acid value increase caused by fatty enzymes. Palm bunches sterilizing also inactivate fatty enzyme with high temperature to prevent enzyme break palm oil chemical structure.
Palm fruit sterilizer
Palm fruit sterilizer
3.Threshing :
The palm fruit proportion is about 60% of the FFB. In this section, we always use rotating drum thresher to separate palm fruit from the bunches.Palm fruit threshing machine is the main equipment of palm oil machine.
Palm fruit thresher can separate palm fruit from palm fruit bunches
4. Crushing :
The purpose of crushing is to destroy palm skin, separate the palm pulp and nuts, pound palm pulp and to damage the cell structure of palm pulp by heating at the same time, which avail the latter pressing section.
5.Pressing :
In palm oil extraction plant, palm oil screw press is common equipment we use, the output of which is mixture of water, oil &residue and presscake (fiber cake).
Palm oil presser can help us to get palm oil
6.Oil Clarification
Use latest technology; Guarantee the oil quality; Reduce machine investment; Lower oil loss.
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