1-5 Tons/Hour Palm Oil Production Line in Nigeria

Palm oil is a kind of tropical woody vegetable oil, which is the largest variety of vegetable oil produced, consumed and internationally traded in the world at present. With soybean oil and rapeseed oil, it is also known as “the three major vegetable oils in the world”. It has a edible history of more than 5,000 years.

The fresh palm fruit string is 100% of the total palm fruit string, the proportion of empty fruit string is 23%, the palm fruit is 65%), and the palm oil content of the whole palm fruit string is (26%), and the palm kernel oil content is 3.25%.

Nigeria is a major global palm oil producer, primarily driven by smallholder farmers in southern states like Akwa Ibom, Edo, and Ondo, but faces a significant supply-demand gap despite its rich history as a leading producer before crude oil’s dominance. Production involves traditional methods like boiling and pounding or modern presses, yielding valuable red oil for food and byproducts for cosmetics, though industry growth struggles with infrastructure and meeting soaring local demand, creating import reliance.

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1-5 Tons/Hour Palm Oil Production Line Process

Raw material reception section –Sterilization station–Threshing section –Dighesting&pressing station –Oil clarification station–Kernel recovery station

Reception station:
The palm oil processing plant starts after the harvesting of the palm fruit bunches where they are taken to the palm oil mill for processing. During the harvesting process the fruits should be handled with care to prevent bruising them as the bruise reduces the quality of oil extracted.

Sterilization Station:
Sterilization process follows where a lot of heat is used to cook the fruit. In this station of palm oil processing, enzymatic reactions are also stopped, arresting hydrolysis,auto-oxidation and the outer cover of the fruit (exocarp) is also weakened allowing easier oil extraction from the fruit. This process can be done by either roasting/smoking which is done after threshing process or by steaming/boiling which should be done before threshing process.

Threshing Station:
The fruit bunches then undergo threshing which separates the fruitlets from the bunch in a rotating drum. It can be done manually or a mechanical by use of palm oil processing machinery – thresher / threshing machine. The loose fruits are then conveyed to the another palm oil processing machine – digester, and the empty fruit bunches are separated and returned to the plantation or used as fuel in the boiler.

Digesting Station:
The fruits are then digested in the digester. This process involves the crushing of the fruits and warming the pulp before oil extraction is done. Warming is important in order to maximize oil extraction.

Twin Screw Palm Fruit Oil Press Machine:
Oil is then clarified, in this process impurities screening is done whereby large solids of fiber and dirt are removed from the raw oil .Water is then added to the raw oil in order to improve the separation process. After sieving process the raw crude oil is obtained but it still contains fine solids and water. Water is removed by introduction of a steam in the coils (increasing the temperature in the coils). The fine solids that are in the oil are removed finally as they sediment hence separating oil from the sludge to obtain about 163 kg of oil per one tone of the palm fruits processed.

Kernel recovery station : The pressed cake (fiber&nut) is transported to the fiber separation system for fiber&nut separating ,the separated nut is sent to nut silo for temporary storage .

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