Sunflower Seed Cake After Oil Extraction in Niger
- Use: Sunflower Oil
- Type:Sunflower Oil Extraction Machine
- Production Capacity: 500kg/h, 500kg/h
- Power: 23.05kw
- Dimension(L*W*H): Based on customer's requirements
- Weight: 2000kg, 2000kg
- Oil cake diameter: 185mm
- Market: Niger
Sunflower Seed Preparation and Oil Extraction
The extracted prepress sunflower cake exiting the extractor is typically in the range of 70–75% meal and 25–30% solvent. The extracted cake is conveyed to the meal desolventizer. The miscella exiting the extractor is typically in the range of 23–27% oil and 73–77% solvent.
annual production (2006-2007) of sunflower oil cake was 29.7 megatons (Sivaramakrishnan et al. 2009) [38]. A report by Oil World (2011) [27] stated that the sunflower meal that is a by-product of sunflower seeds after oil extraction is the 4th most important oil meal after soybean meal, rapeseed meal and cotton seed meal.
THE EFFICACY OF SUNFLOWER SEED CAKE AS AN ORGANIC FERTILIZER, GRÓ
The seed cake is the material that remains after oil extraction and it is reported to be rich in plant nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. In a research conducted by Gupta et al. (2006) the sunflower seed cake contained 4.8, 1.4, and 1.2% of N, P 2O4, and K 2O respectively. There has been an increase in the growing of
Compared to seeds, sunflower oilcakes are richer in fibers (31.88% and 12.64% for samples in form of pellets and cake, respectively) and proteins (20.15% and 21.60%), with a balanced amino acids
Sunflower Seed Preparation and Oil Extraction
Sunflower is crushed for oil recovery via one of two process methods, hard pressing or prepress solvent extraction. Hard pressing relies upon exerting high pressure on the prepared seed to separate oil from the solids fraction, historically recovering about 25% oil from the seed. Prepress solvent extraction relies on exerting medium pressure on
The total phenolics in niger seed oil ranged from 247 to 2264.7 ppm depending on the extraction method (Bhatnagar & Gopalanakrishna, 2013). Total phenolics content of 2266.2 ppm was reported for niger seed oil whereas the total phenolics for niger seed cake was found to be 2545.5 ppm (Bhatnagar & Gopalakrishna, 2015).
Practice abstract "Sunflower oil cake"
Sunflower oil cake is a high protein and fat feed source for livestock. It is a by-product obtained from the extraction of oil from sunflower seeds. It can be obtained by mechanical pressing resulting in a „cake“ (see Figure 1) containing 15-20 % oil or by solvent, which increases the quantity of oil. In or-ganic farming, oil may only be
Abstract. Sunflower is crushed for oil recovery via one of two process methods, hard pressing or prepress solvent extraction. Hard pressing relies upon exerting high pressure on the prepared seed
Nutritional Characteristics Assessment of Sunflower Seeds, Oil and Cake
The consumption of sunflower oil, extracted or naturally presented in seeds or press-cakes, can help to increase the level of linoleic acid in the human body. Sunflower seeds in the literature presented 9.63–10.11% saturated fatty acids, 20.73–25.77% monounsaturated fatty acids and 65.59–69.64% polyunsaturated fatty acids [ 59 ].
The sunflower seed pressing procedure manages to transform about 25–33% of the initial seed weight into oil , while in chemical extraction, the average extracted oil yield is ~42% . As a result of this process, byproducts are generated with a high concentration of nutritional components, including high protein content, reaching around 40–50% in defatted seeds [ 8 , 9 ].
