Palm Oil Production Line
Oil palm is the most economically valuable oil-producing plant in the world, It is widely cultivated in tropical Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. We can provide turnkey palm oil processing plant solutions from plant layout design, machinery manufacturing, onsite debugging, and installation. Our palm fruit oil processing plant capacity ranges from 3tph to 120tph. omplete palm oil production process in a large-scale palm oil factory. Fresh fruit bunches (FFB) of oil palm after the fruit is harvested, it is processed in a palm oil mill, where the FFB is sterilized, digested, and pressed to extract palm oil. The extracted oil is then clarified and sent to a crude palm oil refinery plant, or fractionation plant.Palm oil production line includes three sections, palm oil pressing plant, palm oil refinery plant and palm oil fractionation plant. As the manufacturer of the palm oil production line, we can offer the whole line or part of the palm oil production line for different capacities with turnkey services.
Palm Oil Pressing Plant
Fresh oil palm fruit→sterilizing→threshing→crashing→pressing→clarifying→filtering
1.Raw materials reception section
1.1 The FFB bunch are transported to plant by truck, after be weighed by weighbridge, the FFB will be loaded down to FFB loading area.
1.2 FFB will fall down to the FFB loading conveyor through the FFB loading hopper then conveyed to sterilizing station
2. Sterilizing section
The FFB are transported to sterilizer for sterilizing. It use high temperature to soften the fruit and kill the bacteria, this will increase the moisture content of fruit and separte the fruit and separate the fruits easily, so finally it will easy to get oil and separate palm kernel, also avoid the raising of free fatty acid. From picking to sterilizing station, the time shall not over 24 hours.
3. Threshing section
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.
The FFB are transported to sterilizer for sterilizing. It use high temperature to soften the fruit and kill the bacteria, this will increase the moisture content of fruit and separte the fruit
4. Pressing Section
Transport the palm fruits to the digester to mix and cook again to separate the palm pulp and nut, the use double screw presser to get crude palm oil, which improve the production efficiencey greatly.
5. Clarification section
The pressed CPO contains some water and other impurities, we need to clarify the CPO into sludge oil and pure oil. The pure oil will be dried then transport to crude oil tank, while the sludge oil will through centrifuge for recovery.
6. Palm kernel recovery section
The pressed palm fiber cake gets into the cake breaker then get into the winnowing system to separate the fiber and nut. Then nut will be crushed to get shell and kernel. Through winnowing and washing system to separate the shell and kernel. The shell ca be used as fuel for boiler, the kernel will be dried for storage.
Palm Oil Refinery Plant
1. Degumming
The degumming process aims to remove the gum impurities in the crude palm oil to make it suitable for further refinery process. Crude palm oil quality largely determines the final palm oil quality. The gums contained in crude palm oil can prevent the oil from contacting with catalyst, thus reducing the cracking speed. It can also impact the stability and color of palm oil. Generally, physical, chemical or physicochemical methods can be applied for removing the colloidal impurity.
2. Deacidification
Deacidification is a process that has a great impact on palm oil quality and price. If there is a problem with the neutralization process, the following decoloration will be greatly affected. The free fatty acid in crude palm oil can affect the stability and relish of palm oil. We can add some lye to neutralize the free fatty acid, this process is also called alkali refining.
3. Decoloration
Crude palm oil contains the pigments like chlorophylls, carotenoids, etc. Chlorophylls is a kind of photosensitizer, which can affect the stability of the oil. And other pigments can affect the oil appearance. All the pigments can be removed by adsorbents. Besides, decoloration can also improve the oil color, relish, and increase the oxidation stability, thus providing the good condition for deodorization process.
4. Deodorization
In this process, in addition to accomplish the purpose of odor removing, we focus more on achieving the unit operation in low temperature and short time, thus suppressing the production of trans-fatty acids, lowering the loss of tocopherol, reducing the effect of polymerization, decreasing the decomposition of vitamin A, D, E.