Large Scale Palm Oil Production Line in Nigeria

A large-scale palm oil production line in Nigeria represents a high-yield, automated industrial solution designed to capitalize on a massive structural supply deficit in Africa’s largest consumer market. While national crude palm oil production rose to 1.57 million tonnes, domestic consumption demands over 2.5 million tonnes. This gap requires multi-billion naira annual imports and highlights an immediate market opportunity for mechanized extraction factories.

The complete large scale palm oil production in in Nigeria includes a series of different sections, such as Fresh palm fruit bunches reciption section, Sterilization section, Threshing Section, Digesting & Pressing section, Oil clarification section and so on.

Palm oil production line refers to the palm oil production process to extract crude palm oil out from fresh palm fruit bunches(FFB). The standard palm oil production process mainly includes six steps.

1. Reception Station

The fresh palm fruit bunches are sent into the factory through the weighbridge to weight the raw materials and to calculate the production cost. Palm bunches reception process is finished at loading ramp. This loading ramp makes palm fruit unloading,cleaning, storage platforms, adopting all hydraulic segmented discharge.

2. Sterilization Station

After being transported to the sterilizer, steam will be injected directly inside to weaken the activity of the enzyme, which prevents it getting rancid, to ensure the high quality of the pressed crude palm oil. Meanwhile, it is soft enough for later treshing processing. We have designed both horizontal and vertical sterilizer for larger and smaller line.

3. Threshing Station

The rotating drum in the thresher separates palm fruits from the bunches. Palm fruit will be conveyed to the digester through elevator, the empty bunch to the outside part through scraper conveyor. Spindle adopts on time forging technology, it makes the equipment solider and more durable. Non spindle tresher is also designed, it is driven by the link chain. It can save the producing cost in a large scale palm oil plant.

4. Digesting Station

The digester is used to adjust moisture and temperature of the palm fruit, finally to increase the extraction rate of the palm oil. The digester adopts liquid level control system, which can distribute the material all by itself. To realize the automatic working.
The presser adopts hydraulic control system to adjust the distance of different pressing worms, it is applicable to different kinds of palm fruits, and it can ensure the high oil extraction rate.

5. Pressing Station

The palm fruit oil yield increase by adjusting material moisture and temperature in digesting tank.digesting tank uses liquid level control, so material can distribute automatically and equipment runs fully automatically. Pressing machine uses hydraulic control system to adjust spacing between pressing bolts. So it can be suitable for various palm fruit species and guarantee the oil yield.

6. Clarification Station

Using the latest technology, under the condition of ensuring the good quality of the oil, reduce the equipment cost as much as possible, reduce the loss of the oil, in the practical producing ,the new technology can make the loss of oil less than 1.3%.

Palm Oil Refinery

Palm Oil Refinery is an important process in the palm oil mill plant to ensure the quality and safety of palm oil. It’s recommended to refine crude palm oil through our palm oil refining machines to get high-quality palm oil that is easy to store and can priced high. Refined palm oil can be packed and labeled for the local or global market. We offer you complete palm oil pressing refining plant solutions, from plant layout design to palm oil equipment manufacturing, debugging, and installation.

The crude palm oil refining machine process consists of following section:

1.Neutralizing Section

First stage of crude palm oil refining process is to remove Free Fatty Acids (F.F.A.) with caustic soda treatment called Neutralizing Process, thereafter further processed in the bleaching section under vacuum & treated with bleaching earth & activated carbon for removing colour. Finally it will be deodorized under high vacuum and high temperature to remove the odour from the oil.

2.Bleaching Section

The Oil received from previous stages contains traces of soap, iron and few ppm of Phospholipids and Carotenes. These contents are undesirable and required to be removed in Bleaching Operation of crude palm oil refining process, Doing’s Steam Agitated Bleacher comprises of an acid treatment, a separate Oil and Earth Mixing Device with Mechanical Mixer (this arrangement ensures no carryover of bleaching earth into vacuum system), main bleaching vessel and Hermetic Filters.

3.Deodorizing Section

Physical Refining process is used to remove FFA (Free Fatty Acid), using Steam Distillation method at high temperature and under high vacuum and it is followed by Deodorization and an extra technical facility is added before deodorisation for removal of free fatty acid.
Deodorization process is used to remove unacceptable odour by Steam Distillation, the Odoriferous Compound are strip off with the help of live injected steam into heated oil under high vacuum.

Palm oil fractionation

Palm oil fractionation plant has three fractions: stearin (palm stearine), soft fat (palm olein) and middle section (palm mid-fraction). After palm oil fractionation, palm oil will be clean after 5.5 hours in 0℃ to ensure it can keep flow ability and transparency in the refrigerator and improve the quality and appearance of palm oil.

Our palm oil fractionation technology and machinery is based on a fully continuous and automatic system without adding any solvent or chemical, ensuring premium quality of oil products.

The oil is cooled slowly to a certain degree in dissolved state, passing through plate filter to separate crystals and precipitate solid ester. Our palm oil fractionation plant is your best choice to produce stable palm oil olein and stearine products that fits your standard and quality requirements.

Features of Our Fractionation System
Simple process;
Easy and convenient operation;
No environmental pollution;
Low consumption of steam;
Reasonable price;
Satisfied palm oil fractionation results;

We industry leading manufacturer in palm oil production line field. We provide full set of palm oil production machinery and equipment with factory prices. We also supply turnkey projects for palm oil pressing and refining plant in Nigeria.We can customized palm oil production machine for different customer with different capacity. We will choose the palm oil mill process according to the different requirements of different customers. Both technical and economic effects are taken into account while plan the palm oil mill process, so that to build the best palm oil mill plant in Nigeria.