The Processing Of Palm Oil

A unique feature of the oil palm is that it produces two types of oil - palm oil from
the fresh of the fruit, and palm kernel oil from the seed or kernel. For every 10 tonnes of palm oil, about 1 tonne of palm kernel oil is also obtained. Several processing operations are used to produce the finished palm oil that meets the users' requirements.

palm oil

The first step in processing is at the mill, where the crude palm oil is extracted from
the fruit.
The crude palm oil may be further refined to get a wide range of palm products of
specified quality.
Palm oil may also be fractionated, using simple crystallization and separation processes to obtain solid (stearin) and liquid (olein) fractions of various melting characteristics.The different properties of the fractions make them suitable for a variety of food and non-food products.

Indonesia Malaysia palm oil plantation machines

Doing Group is a professional manufacturer, we can produce all kinds of edible oil machinery, which includes palm oil plantation machines , peanut oil, soybean oil, cotton oil, sunflower oil, corn oil, rice bran oil and other kinds of edible oil. 
 

palm oil plantation machines

Brief introduction of whole palm oil plantation machines:

1. Raw materials storage section: Fresh palm fruit bunch must be first measurement recorded by the pound into the plant, then unloaded to loaded fruit slopes and stored.

2. Sterilizing section: fresh palm fruit bunch are airtight sterilized in sterilizer. The purpose to prevent enzymes broken down.

3. Threshing section: The purpose of threshing is the oil palm fruit be separated from the fruit bunch.

4. Pressing section: To get the crude palm oil from the palm fruit.

5. Clarification section: Machine-pressed crude oil first diluted with water washing, through settlement and filtration, the fiber material removed from the oil, and then carry out continuous settlement, the whole divided into two parts: oil and sediment. 

6. Finished oil storage and transportation section: To store the finished oil.

7. Fiber separation section: Press cake broken by breaking screw conveyor and then transported into the fiber separation air net for fiber separating. 

8. Kernel recovery section: Separating the kernel from the palm meal.

9. Sewage treatment section: If there is high requirement of the waste water, we need this section to treat the waste water.

Raw material :

Raw material	Oil content
Peanut	44-55%
Camellia	58-60%
Castor seed	50-70%
Soybean	18-21%
Cotton seed	33-40%
Rapeseed	33-40%
Sesame seed	45-50%
Sunflower seed	40-50%
Rice bran	18-20%
Safflower seed	29-45%
Corn embryo/germ	30-40%
Walnut	40-65%
Flaxseed/Linseed	29-44%
Palm seed	50-55%
Coconut	35-45%

 
Co-operating customers' feedback:
Palm oil plantation machines have advanced design, convenient operation, high output, strong compatibility and high efficiency. The series products combine both refined traditional technology and scientific research, so that the products can satisfy marketing request and users' benefit. Palm oil plantation machines have been establishing a good reputation in China and around the world. 

 

palm kernel oil production machine | vegetable oil production machine

  Description of palm oil making machine:

Oil Refining Workshop of palm oil making machine 

Craft flow: 
crude palm oil → degumming&dephosphorization → deacidification → drying  → decolorization →deodorization → defatting → dewaxing → finished palm oil.
After this you could get palm edible oil,but if you want better quality palm oil,you will need fractionation process.
Fractionation process aims to separate the palm oil to be palm olein and palm stearin.palm olein could be packed for sale.Palm olein oil  is very good quality liquid edible oil.the palm stearin could be used in the food industry or soap making.
Refining methods of palm oil making machine:
oil refining is according to the different usage and requirements, utilizing the physical 
methods and chemical processes to get rid of the harmful impurities and needless substance
 in the crude oil, getting standard oil.

What is palm oil?

Palm oil is an important and versatile vegetable oil which is used as a raw material for both food and non-food industries.

palm oil

Palm oil facts:
The introduction of palm oil
1.Palm oil trees can grow up to 20 metres tall with an average life of 25 years.
2.Palm oil grows across or 10 degrees north / south of the equator.
3.The tree starts to bear fresh fruit bunches (FFBs) after three years.
4.The oil palm tree is also know as Elaeis Guineensis.
5.Each individual piece of fruit on fruit bunch contains 50% oil.
6.The nut, referred to as a kernel, at the centre of each piece of fruit, is where palm kernel oil is extracted from.
7.Palm oil can be harvested 12 months of the year.
8.Each tree can produce 10 tonnes of fresh fruit bunches per hectare.
9.On average 3.9 tonnes of crude palm oil and 0.5 tonnes of palm kernel oil can be extracted per hectare.
11.Leftover fibre from the palm kernel mill process provides a product called palm kernel expeller. This is used in animal feed, but can also be used to make products like paper or fertilizer.
12.Palm oil requires 10 times less land than other oil-producing crops.
13.It is entirely GM free

Palm oil press machine

Palm Oil Press Machine
Fresh palm fruit bunch is the main agriculture product in Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, South America and many other countries.

There are many large scale palm oil plant in Malaysia and Indonesia; But on the other side, small palm oil plant is also in great needs in different countries, especially in Africa. For small palm oil plant, it is cost-ineffective to set up whole line palm oil machines with large capacity. We advice customers or palm plantation owners to start with small palm oil plant.The most important equipment to make palm oil is the palm oil press machine.
The whole process for palm oil press machine includes palm reception section, sterilizing section, threshing section,  oil press section, Clarification section,
fibre separator and palm kernel recovery section.
1. Raw materials storage section: Fresh palm fruit bunch must be first measurement recorded by the pound into the plant, then unloaded to loaded fruit slopes and stored.
2. Sterilizing section: fresh palm fruit bunch are airtight sterilized in sterilizer. The purpose to prevent enzymes broken down, avoiding FFA content in oil further increase;
3. Threshing section: The purpose of threshing is the oil palm fruit be separated from the fruit bunch through strong vibration, Threshing equipment is revolving drum thresher.
4.Pressing section: Oil palm fruit first carry out cooking before pressed, fruit sterilized must be re-heating for the soft pulp, and damage pulp cell structure.
Then enter into continuous screw press for pressing.
5. Clarification section: Machine pressed crude oil first diluted with water washing, through settlement and filtration, the fiber material removed from the oil, and then carry out continuous settlement, the whole
divided into two parts: oil and sediment.
6. Fiber separation and palm kernel recovery section: This part is used to separate the fibre from the palm fruit. Then the palm kernel is got. The palm kernel can be used to make palm kernel oil.

The features of palm oil press machine:
1. High oil yield & low waste
2. Stable performance
3. Unique design for each customer
4. Newest technology and automatic
5. Easy to operate and maintain
6. Widely used in different kinds of oil processing.

The business scope of palm oil press machine:
 0.5-1tph small scale palm fruits processing machine;
1-20tph small scale palm fruits processing machine;
30-120tph small scale palm fruits processing machine;
1-600tpd palm oil refinery machine;
1-600tpd palm oil fractionation machine;
palm kernel oil extraction machine;

How to from fresh fruit bunches to crude palm oil?

From fresh fruit bunches to crude palm oil, following is a brief introduction of crude
palm oil processing .

1.Palm bunch sterilization section:
Palm bunch sterilization station utilizes high temperature (145℃, 90-120min) to cook
palm bunches. Palm fruit can easily separate from palm bunches and become soft. Because of the increasing humidity of palm fruit, crude palm oil can be easily extracted from fruit. Palm kernel can much easy separate from kernel shell, preventing enzymatic decomposition, and avoid elevated levels of free fatty acids.

Palm bunch  reception

2.Threshing section:
The palm fruit proportion is about 60% of the FFB. The purpose of the threshing is to
separate the palm fruit from the FFB.we usually use rotating drum thresher to separate palm fruit from the palm bunches.

3.Crashing section:
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.The best condition of cooking is 90-100℃，about 20 minutes.

4.Pressing section：
In the processing of crude palm oil，we use screw oil press.After pressing,oil palm fruit is devided into two parts:the mixture of oil, water, solid impurities and press cake (fiber and nuclear)

 palm oil press machine

5.Crude palm oil section：
By clarifying and filtering, we can separate impurities and get the palm oil .
This is just a brief introduction of palm oil processing, and there’s still many details
in crude palm oil processing. If you have any questions about crude palm oil processing, please contact me.

Palm oil refinery process

Refinery palm oil process is mature technology in China. The purpose of refinery palm oil process is to removal the impurities to meet the standards of edible oil. And the refinery palm oil processes are: crude oil ---degumming bleaching---deodorization---fractionation. Steps of  refining process of palm oil are as follows:

palm oil process

First, put the crude oil into oil refining tank, stirring quickly, and simultaneously heating by steam. And then add the hot water. It is the most important stage , you should manage the water amount, temperature and water adding speed. At the same time, alkali is added to remove the FFA.
Next, Inhaling the definite quantity de-coloring agent (active clay, active carbon) into the oil by vacuum, then they are continue stirred and heated for  25mins. After pumping the oil and clay mixture into vibrating filter to remove the waste clay, the de-colorization is finished.
After the decolorized oil pumped to the deodorization pot or the deodorization tower, it’s begin to heat. When the temperature reaches above100℃, the direct steam is added to take the odors away.
After all of these, the palm oil should be cooled in vacuum cooling tank. When the temperature is nearly 80℃, it can be transferred  to another  container, then we got the refining palm oil.
After the refinery palm oil processes, the refining palm oil have different kinds of usages. It is edible oil, and also can be used for other purposes. It is widely used in food manufacturing and production, and the other 10% of the palm oil is mainly used in soap and oil chemical production. Besides, refining palm oil can also be used to make soap, vegetable oil, and other types of products.