Table 2: Quantities of various vegetable oils imported by Egypt from 2015 to 2018 in ton). It is clear that palm oil is the major oil imported by Egypt whereby it represents about 60% of total imported oils in 2018 while the quantity imported from corn oil is the least being about 3% in the same year.
How much oil does Egypt eat a year?
Currently, Egypt consumes about 2.5 million tons of edible oils annually. Only, about 48.5 thousand tons of this quantity is produced by oilseed extraction in local extraction plants. About half of this quantity is produced mainly from cottonseed produced as a byproduct of cotton ginning industry.
What are the processing steps in edible oil industry?
As pre-mentioned, in case of edible oil industry, these processing steps include the steps of crude oil extraction from oilseed, removal of free acids by chemical and physical methods, de-colorization of neutralized oil using bleaching earth and the step of deodorizing the bleached oil.
Can edible oils be used in industrial applications?
It should be notified that some edible oils have been also used in some industrial applications in countries where there is enough surplus of edible oils such as the USA. For example, sunflower oil, either regular, or high oleic may be used in biofuel in the form of methyl esters.