| Solvent Extraction Plant |
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Solvent extraction is a process to extract the oil from oil bearing materials by means of a solvent. A typical solvent used is hexane, a by-product of petroleum. The solvent extraction plant is designed to extract oil directly from oil seeds containing less than 20% oil, like soybeans, after flaking. Or it extracts oils from pre-pressed or fully pressed cake of seeds containing more than 20% oil like sunflowers, peanuts, cotton seed, palm kernels, canola, copra, castor and a variety of other materials.
Solvent Extraction Plant Workshops
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The purpose of solvent plant extraction is to remove most of the oil contained in the seed. Extraction is conducted on prepared seeds or, as generally occurs in the case of high oil content seeds, the cake obtained from pre-pressing. Solvent extraction consists of a sequence of five operations: |
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 Preparation of seeds for extraction which includes pre-pressing for high oil content seeds. |
| Extraction of oil from the prepared material with the aid of a food-grade solvent. |
| Desolventising-toasting of the de-oiled seed/meal, often combined with drying and cooling of the said meal. |
| Distillation, to remove the solvent from the extracted oil. |
| Recovery of solvent, which is reused again and again at the extractor level. |
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