We provide solutions for palm oil production and palm oil refining, including palm oil mill plant layout design, palm oil equipment manufacturing, palm oil equipment debugging and installation.
In order to get the pure and refined oil, there are three main process in chemical palm oil refinery plant and chemical palm kernel oil refinery plant: degumming process, bleaching process and deodourising process.
Physical Refining is the steam distillation of free fatty acids from oils and fats under high temperature and vacuum conditions.
Palm Oil Chemical Refining Plant
Palm Oil Chemical Refining Process
During the crude oil chemical refining process, the FFA will be removed and the neutralized crude oil and soap stock will be produced. And the soap stock will be separated from oil by using of high-speed separator. And the color pigments and the metal ions will be removed from the neutralized oil. If the crude oil contains high carotene, high FFA (more than 5% ) and relative low phosphatides, it will be great to have the chemical refining process to reduce the refining losses and the operation costs.
Chemical refining machine is widely used in small capacity palm oil refining process.
Highlights of Our Palm Refining Solutions
- Full automatic control for minimal cost and efforts.
- Provides less effluent load, high efficient and simple production process
- Advanced and updated palm oil production equipment for high quality palm oil
The whole palm oil refining process will ensure all the process are included, such as degumming, deacidefication, bleaching, deodorization and fractionation and more (See more about Key Palm Oil Fractionation Process - Crystallization & Cooling)
Palm Oil Physical Refining Plant
Palm Oil Physical Refining Process
Oil physical refining process, also called as oil steam refining. During the degumming section in the palm oil milling plant, the gum will be removed from palm oil by utilizing phosphoric acid or citric acid. Next to bleaching section, the coloring matter and other metal ions will be absorbed or removed. Then, in the deacidification and and deodorization section, the crude palm oil will be processed within low pressure and high temperature. Through live stem, the FFA will be stripped of and the odors and colors will be removed or absorbed.
Physical refining machine is widely used in medium and big capacity palm oil refining process.
Advantages of CPO Physical Refining Technology
As we all know, the palm oil fruit can yield two distinct edible oil - palm oi that is obtained from the outer part of the palm fruit and the palm kernel oil that is derived from the inter kernel of the palm fruit (palm nut). Physical refining process is suitable for both crude palm oil and palm kernel oil.
Improve production capacity and refining rate.
- Reduce production cost.
- Shorten processing time.
- Directly recovering highly purified distilled fatty acids.
- Reduce waste water and waste gas problems. There is no waste water and waste gas produced by the cracking of soap feet in chemical refining plant.
Palm Oil Fractionation
Palm oil fractionation is the deep process of refined palm oil. Because at room temperature, part of the palm oil will crystallize and form into two parts: solid state and liquid state. So usually our clients will choose to add the palm oil fractionation plant to separate them and then get stearin and olein for different use.
Palm oil fractionation process goes through the control of palm oil cooling and crystallization to make separation of palm oil into low melting point liquid (palm olein) and high melting solid (palm stearin). Palm oil fractionation process can greatly maximize the value of palm oil products.
Main flow chart of palm oil fractionation includes three parts:
1. Heating: as we've stated above, palm oil will contains both liquid state and solid state at normal temperature, so first we need to heat the palm oil and make it all into liquid state first, which is good for forming into even crystals in the following palm oil fractionation process.
2. Crystallization: after heating, the liquid palm oil will be pumped into crystallization tank, and there is cooling water pipes inside the tank to help lower the temperature and make it easy for forming into even crystals.
3.Separating stearin and olein: after crystallization, the mixture of solid and liquid oil will be pumped to membrane filter, which is specially adopted in the palm oil fractionation plant to separate the stearin and olein, then send to different storage tanks. Besides, we will further collect the small part of liquid oil contained in the stearin, in order to increase olein yield.
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