Starting a Small Scale Palm Oil Plant

Small scale palm oil mill plant generally refers to the palm oil processing production with the capacity 10-50 ton per day. We have two small palm fruit processing solutions for your! One is small scale palm oil mill plant for 10~30 ton/day factory, and the other one is 30~50 ton/day palm oil milling plant for medium-sized factory.

If you want to produce palm oil automatically, 1-5tph small scale palm oil processing plant can fulfill your requirement. It is a whole line machine from FFB to red palm oil. And the machines used in the small scale palm oil processing plant are all designed specifically for the small scale plant by QIE Machinery, which have palm fruit sterilizer, palm fruit thresher, palm fruit digester, double screw palm oil presser machine, crude palm oil clarification machine, red palm oil filter machine, crude red oil tank and so on. (Read more: How to Start a Successful Palm Oil Production Business in Nigeria >>)

Small Scale Palm Oil Plant Process

Raw material : FFB (fresh palm fruit bunch ) ,Output :CPO(red palm oil)

The main process :
FFB(fresh palm fruit bunches)—Reception— Sterilizing —Threshing —Crushing—Pressing—Oil clarification —CPO(crude palm oil)

The main machine in the production line :

1.Sterilizatuib station : The purpose of sterilizer is used to break the enzymes in fruit ,and avoid the increasing of the FFA content in palm oil . at the same time ,The high temprature makes the fruit soften ,it is easy for fruti threshing

2. Thresher station : The purpose of sterilizer is to separate the palm fruit from the FFB . we mainly adopts drum trype thresher . there is a rotarty drum inside of the threshing mahcine ,the separated palm fruit is sent to the pressing station . empty palm fruit bunches are discharged from the other side of the thresher .

3.Digesting &pressing station : Digesting is for crushing palm fruit ,Use high temperature to soften the fruit ,and crush pam fruit , It help to press oil out easily . Presing machine is used to press crude palm oil from processed palm fruit

4.Oil clarification station : It is used to filter  impurities in the crude palm oil . The purified palm oil can be directly sold or deeply refined .

How to set up small scale palm oil mill

Now that you have arranged for the necessary equipment and goods it’s time to understand the process of palm oil extraction, refining and how to do the whole process.

• Reception – First of all bring the bunch of palm fruits and store them in your inventory. Palm fruits will arrive directly from your field or any market if you have imported them.
• Separation of fruits from bunches – The fruits need to be separated from the raw bunches first. Use the thresher for separating the fruits from bunches. You can do this manually by hiring some laborers to manually separate the fruits from bunches. But it is time-consuming and requires more labors. With the thresher, the process becomes time saver and simple. Just add the bunches on the machine and the rotating machine will separate the fruits from the bunches.
• Cooking the palm fruits – The next step is to boil the palm fruits at high temperatures. Heating makes the pulp softer making it easy to extract the oil. Use the boiler to cook the fruits. The boiler cooks the fruits with hot steam. However, over boiling should be avoided otherwise it will reduce the protein value of palm fruits.
• Extraction of palm oil – Now, you need to extract the oil from the pulp or mixture of boiled palm oil fruits. The equipment you will use here is palm oil presser. Make sure to purchase a good quality presser as presser is the main machine that will extract the raw palm oil from fruits. The basic principle of palm oil presser is pressure. The machine applies the pressure to extract the oil from boiled fruits.
• Filtering and refining – The extracted palm oil contains impurities which should be filtered out. The unrefined oil contains free fatty acids, moisture, and dirt, phospholipids, Mixture of fibers and pigment. Use the palm oil filter and palm oil refinery to refine the oil to be used for sale.
• Storage – Store the oil in tanks or drums before packaging. Make sure that the tanks or drums you use for storage are covered with a protective coating. Because the iron contained in the drum metal may react with the oil. To avoid, Oxidation of oil due to storage maintain the temperature of around 50 degrees using hot water or steam coils.
• Package and dispatch – Use labor to pack the refined oil into bottles ready to dispatch. In large mills they have machines for packaging firm, at your small-scale palm oil mill; some labor is enough to do the packaging. Use your stickers on the bottles for your brand.

Setting up the small scale palm oil plant is the great resource for your income. Since palm oil has great demand you can earn the pretty good profit in your local or small markets nearby. Palm oil is widely used in pharmaceutical, cosmetics industry, food products, and many such other industries. So, go for this if you want to set up something of your own and something that will never go out of demand.