Oil Refining Process

It is composed of oil refining vessel,bleaching drying vessel,de-ordorizing vessel,soap-stock vessel,crystallizing tank,filter,thermal oil boiler,vacuum system and freezing machine.,Grade 1-4 oil can be produced from the crude oil through degumming, deacidification, bleaching, dewaxing and deordorization.

There are three types of the equipment,discountinuous type (less than 50t/d),semi-continuous type(20-80t/d)and full continuous type (more than 30 t/d).The technology and equipment can be selected as required by the production scale of the customer and the oil

Technology

We classify it into Physical Refining & Chemical Refining according to different technology. Features of these two technologies:

Physical Refining

Remove gums in oil with special degumming method. FFA in oil is removed by steam. Features:

• High oil refining rate, less oil loss
• No waste water discharged;
• More FFA distilled out;
• Especially suitable for oils of high acid value, and low gum content;

Chemical Refining

Neutralize FFA in the oil with alkali. The gum and soap produced are centrifuges. Features:

• Less requirements to crude oils;
• The finished oil is more consistent in quality;
• Less bleaching earth used compared with physical refining;

Add bleaching earth into the degummed oil. Under the vacuum state, the oil is continuously mixed with bleaching earth in the continuous Bleacher, where main part of colour bodies as well as oxidizing materials in the oil are absorbed by the bleaching earth. After continuous Bleacher, the oil/clay mixture is passed through Leaf Filters where the spent earth is removed together with the precipitated materials from degumming. The oil then passes through one of two alternatively working safety filters before entering the next section.

De-waxing system plays an important role in improving palatability, transparency and brightness of oils. The wax content is different in various oils. For maize oil, rice bran oil, sunflower seed oil, cottonseed oil etc., de-waxing is very important. The de-waxing methods are freezing, surface active agents, cold polymerizer, electrostatic, and winterizing etc. Currently winterizing method is most popular. The crystallizing temperature, crystallizing velocity, and crystal maturating time and filtering mode vary with oils.

Oil deodorization is the process which makes use of the different volatility between the odor substances and the triglycerides in the oils and fats to remove the odor substance by means of the steam distillation under the condition of high temperature and fine vacuum. Oil deodorized can not only remove the odor substances, increase the smoke point of oils and fats, and improve the flavor of edible oil, but also can enhance the stability, color and quality of oils and fats to some extent.

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  Degumming
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  Decolorizing
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  Dehydrating
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  Deodorizing
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  Vacuum System
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  2 tons of refined
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  Batch refining
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  Small-scale refining