According to oil extraction methods, soybean oil production can be divided into mechanical oil pressing and solvent oil extraction. And crude soybean oil extracted from both mechanical or solvent has impurities and should be refined through a series of oil refining process to get edible refined soybean oil.
What is solvent extraction process in soybean oil extraction?
The solvent extraction process is a common method used for soybean oil extraction. The aim is to use a solvent for dissolving a target solute, and wash it out of the solid plant component. The processes involved at this stage are provided below. Soybeans are first cleaned and cracked.
How do you extract soybean oil from soybean flakes?
This can be achieved through mechanical pressing or by using solvents like hexane. Mechanical pressing involves physically pressing the soybeans to release the oil, while solvent extraction is a more efficient method for large-scale production. After expanding, the soybean flakes are drying to reduce their moisture content.
How to set up a soybean oil mill plant?
Here we have listed some of the basic machinery required to set up Soybean Oil Mill Plant Soybean oil extraction plant require a series of automated processing steps. Normally, the basic process of a soybean oil production plant is seed cleaning, destoning, oil pressing, Cake / Meal Conditioning, oil filtration.