Small Edible Oil Refinery

Small edible oil refinery introduction

A small edible oil refinery basically is a simple mechanical device that can help you produce quality and pure edible oil from crude oil. The core purpose is to transfer crude oil into pure edible oil. It operates on the simple a principle of removal of impurities such as waxes, gums, and pigment from the crude oil. The device greatly resembles a furnace and in order to get fuel out of it, you simply place crude oil inside the refinery and turn it on. This is an effective and efficient way of producing edible oil on small scale in your homestead. This represents a small edible refinery but there also exist huge large scale refineries which are more powerful than the small edible refinery.

Small edible oil refinery applications

The small edible oil refinery allows you to carry out three major processes:

• Neutralization which involve removing Free Fatty Acids with Sodium Hydroxide. In the process of neutralization, a lot of soap stock is generated. At this point, there is also removal of any color pigments that may be present in the oil so as to make it purer. The neutralization process is a little bit more complex. It combines the neutralization process with bleaching. Oil which has been neutralized is drawn into the bleacher removing the color of the oil. The oil is then heated up.
• Filter pressing which involves the separation of clean bleached oil from the impure oil. The pure oil is sent down to the deodorizer that is responsible for the removal of any unpleasant flavor that is naturally present in the crude oil. Some of this unwanted flavors and odors are as a result of exposing the oil to extremely high temperatures.
• Finally dewaxing which is an optional process. It is common for sunflower oil or corn oil to appear hazy in extremely cold conditions. This is as a result of waxes being present in the oil. In order to get rid of this hazy appearance, consider Dewaxing the oil.

Small edible oil refinery advantages

• Increased efficiency .The small edible refinery is very effective and will provide you with clean edible oil in a matter of minutes. The extraction rate of the small edible refinery is almost equivalent to that of the larger production refineries.
• The machine is fitted with two independent tanks. One tank is dedicated to handling pure bleached oil while the other tank holds the crude oil. This ensures that at no point does the raw oil mix with the already refined oil.
• Every vessel of the small edible refinery is fitted with a temperature gauge that ensures that the oil is not overheated at any point.
• Quality is guaranteed. The small edible refinery is carefully designed by a team of experts hence the quality of oil grinded is simply super. Apart from the edible oil, you can also be able to get hair oil and even product oil.One great advantage of the small edible refinery is that both the bleacher, deodorizer and the cooler have dished ends on both sides.