Is castor oil a sustainable non-edible resource for chemical process industries?
Conclusions Castor oil is a valuable sustainable non-edible resource for chemical process industries. Biorefinery offers the best frame for valorisation. The paper presents the conceptual design and the economic evaluation of a modern castor oil biorefinery, which involve the analysis and flowsheet synthesis of four processes.
How is castor oil extracted?
The cooked seeds are then dried before the extraction process begins. A screw oil press machine is used to crush the castor oil-seeds to facilitate removal of the oil. The first phase of this extraction is called pre-pressing.
How to make castor oil?
The castor oil seeds undergoes many processes to produce castor oil. The following steps: seed cleaning, seed cooking, oil extraction, oil clarification, oil storage and filling. Step 1: Castor Seed Dehulling Step 2: Castor Seed Cleaning Step 3: Castor Seed Cooking Step 4: Castor Seed Pressing Step 5: Castor Oil Clarification
How Castor oil biorefinery process fatty methyl ricinoleate ester (famre)?
The first processing step in a castor oil biorefinery is the synthesis of fatty methyl ricinoleate ester (FAMRE) by transesterification. FAMRE can be valorised firstly as biodiesel. Further a certain amount of FAMRE is submitted to conversion in bio-chemicals.