Modern Palm Oil Production Plant: Full Automation & Low Cost

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%.

The complete set palm oil processing plant includes palm oil extraction process(how palm oil is extracted), palm kernel oil extraction process and palm oil/palm kernel oil refining process.Oil palm is an important tropic oil seed plant. The palm oil content is very high: common fresh fruit :45～50％ , palm kernel :50～55％. As professional manufacturer of palm oil processing machine , we can supply complete set palm oil mill plant, complete set palm kernel oil mill plant and complete set palm oil/ palm kernel oil refinery plant and palm oil fractionation plant. (Related Post:  Ultimate Guide to the Palm Oil Production Process >>)

Palm Oil Extraction Process

Raw Materials Storage Section

Collecting the ripe fresh palm fruit bunches from the plantation and transported by trucks is the first step of palm oil production line, then pour the FFB into the discharge door after weighed by weighbridge.
The discharge door has discharging channels, the upper and lower switches of the iron gate are controlled by pneumatic control system consists of air compressor and pneumatic control devices. Start the control valve to open the gate of the discharge door, then the palm fruits will fall into the fruit basket car or conveyor.

Sterilization Section

Sterilization is a main process of palm oil production line that injecting 300KPa direct steam into to sterilizer to boil the palm fruit for about 60 mins.The purpose is to break the enzymes in fruit, and to avoid the increasing of the FFA content in oil. At the meanwhile, the high temperature will makes the fruits soften, it is easy for fruit threshing and kernel cracking. Also reducing the damage of kernel.

Threshing Section

Oil palm fruit accounted for about 60% of the whole fruit bunch, The purpose of threshing is to separate the palm fruit from the FFB. The drum type thresher is the common machine used to separate the fruit. There is a horizontal turning machine inside of the threshing machine. The separated oil palm fruit is sent to the pressing section. Empty palm fruit bunches are transport to the yard from the other side of the thresher drum, or transported from the factory as palm plantation slipcover to recycling use, or burning directly as fertilizer for agricultural land.

Digesting&Pressing Section

Digesting is for breaking off the palm fruit, and with high temperature to soften the fruit and kills the bacteria. Sterilizing, threshing and digesting all important for palm oil production line which help increase the palm fruit oil yield.
Inside the digester, there are baffles and stirring arms, under the driving of the top motor, baffles break off the palm fruit and heat the palm fruit, so it can pressing oil easily.
Pressing machine use hydraulic control system to adjust spacing between screws. So it is suitable for various palm fruit species and guarantee the oil yield. After pressing, the crude palm oil needs to be purified, the kernel and fiber impurities can be processed by further separation from the pressed cake. After drying, the kernel is stored for deep process, and the separated fiber and shell are used as the boiler fuel for providing steam.

Oil Clarification Section

Advantages: Use latest technology; Guarantee the oil quality; Reduce machine investment; Lower oil loss.
The purified palm oil can be directly sold or deeply refining. After clarification, the industrial sewage will be sent into effluent pond. Then the residual sludge can be used as the fertilizer. The whole process is high automatic, environment friendly and energy- saving.

Palm Kernel Recovery Section

Pressed cake is transported into the fiber separation air net and nut polishing drum for fiber&nut separating. There are some fiber covering outside palm nut. In order to get palm kernel, we should remove the fiber and shell first.
The cracked palm nut adopts separating column system and special hydrocyclone equipment to separate palm kernel and shell according to their different density. So it has high separation rate.
After separation, the shell is used as boiler fuel; the moisture content of separation kernel is less than 7% after drying through the hot air. Dried kernel can be sent to kernel storage silo or warehouse for storage.

Crude Palm Oil Refinery(CPO)

We specialize in designing turnkey solutions for extracting palm oil and crude palm oil refining.

There are three common types of edible oil refining process: batch oil, semi-continuous oil, and continuous oil. Each type of refining process can determine the exact size and detailing process of the refinery plant. Our engineer design team will customize a specific refining plan for you based on your budget.(Related Plant:Palm Oil Refinery Plant Setup Costs in Nigeria >>)

CPO Refining Process

CPO refining process (RBD)mainly includes four steps of degumming, deacidification, bleaching and deodorization.

Degumming and Deacidification Process
Through phosphoric acid application, the fatty acid and gum contained in the palm oil and palm kernel oil will be separated from foreign impurities.

Bleaching Process
It adopts vacuum system to remove the impurities and color pigments from the crude palm oil and crude palm kernel oil.

Deodorization Process
The palm oil and palm kernel oil are steamed at a temperature of 240°C to 260°C to get away the odors and tastes.

Palm oil processing plant advantages:

1.Self-sufficient palm oil production, low production cost, low environmental pollution, recycling utilization of resource.

2.Palm oil mill plant adopts the most scientific palm oil processing equipment configuration, using mechanical oil pressing technology, make successfully extraction of palm oil from palm fruit.

3.Palm oil milling process plant covers three major plants of crude palm oil pressing plant, water treatment plant and power supply plant.

4.The entire palm oil process is totally environmental protective, low energy consumption, and low production cost.

We industry leading manufacturer in palm oil processing plant 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.We can customized palm oil production machine for different customer with different capacity.