castor oil extraction plant

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Castor Oil and Castor Seeds

Castor oil is a vegetable oil obtained from the castor bean, technically castor seed as the castor plant. Castor seed is a very important oil seed. The castor oil has very large industrial use. Castor seed contains more than 48% oil.Castor oil is one of the most versatile plant oils. Its unique chemical structure makes it useful in a wide number of industries and applications. Castor oil is fast becoming one of the most sought after plant oils, owing to its rich properties and variety of end-uses.

Castor Oil Extraction Plant

Always we process castor oil by the method of solvent extraction, but first of all, the castor seed should be fully prepared which including pre-pressing for high oil content seeds. Then with the aid of food grade solvent, the castor seeds will be extracted in the solvent. The de-oiled seed /meal- often combined with drying and cooling of the said meal. In order to remove the solvent from the extracted oil, distillation has to be used. Solvent Recovery, which is reused again and again at extractor level.