Coconut Oil Production Line

Coconut Oil Production Line adopts twice pressing technology to produce coconut oil from the dried copra. The coconut oil production line mainly includes coconut oil pretreatment and oil pressing process, refining process. The pressed coconut cake can be used as animal feed. The moisture content of dried coconut for pressing should be controlled at 7%-10%. We can offer 10-500TPD coconut oil processing machine.

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Brand
QIE

Raw Material
Copra

Capacity
10-500TPD

Concrete Designs of Coconut Oil Production Line Process

Coconut Oil Pretreatment & Pressing Line Process

copra →cleaning →crushing→softening→ pre pressing → twice pressing →filteration → crude oil tanks → refined section → refined coconut oil

Cleaning

You will remove various impurities such as sand, leaves, stones, liquids, and metals from the raw material using a clean sieve and magnetic separator.

Crushing

Using a hammer crusher break large pieces of coconut meat, the size can reach 180mm × 100mm × 6mm. The hammer crusher will increase the size of the screen, reduce the number of hammerheads, and evenly arrange the hammerhead cross.

Flaking

After crushing, the oil has penetrated the surface of the material. Increase the rolling distance, by about 3 ~ 4.5mm, and peel off the dried coconut. This is helpful to avoid the power degree being too high, sticking on the drum, and not smooth material discharge.

Cooking

The crushed coconut is sent to the top of the cooker, which cooks the pieces to achieve pre-press requirements. To avoid waste, it is necessary to reduce the mixing time and clean the feed ports of the cooker and elevator frequently.

Cooking

Pre-pressing

As copra has a high oil content of 52-72%, twice pressing technology is adopted to press the copra oil as much as possible. The cooked copra is lifted into the pre-press machine by elevator. This coconut oil processing machine can get 70% oil out and the residual oil rate in the cake is about 15-20%.

Twice Pressing

The pre-pressed cake is sent to the oil pressing machine and pressed again to reduce the residual oil in the cake to the minimum. The copra oil press adopted has high production efficiency and is easy to operate and maintain. The residual oil rate in the cake after twice pressing is around 5-8%.

Crude Copra Oil Filtration

The pre-pressed and second-pressed copra oil is filtered to lower the impurity content, making a better preparation for the copra oil refinery.

Crude Coconut Oil Refining Process

The crude coconut oil obtained after extraction may contain impurities, including free fatty acids (FFAs), pigments, and odors. Coconut oil refining is mainly done by the physical refining process, which can be efficiently deodorized and further contribute to the improvement of oil quality by removing impurities, odor, and free fatty acids.

Crude Oil Degumming & De–acidification Section

The degummed oil enters the mixing tank and the clay is added for fully mixing. The mixture of oil and clay is pumped into the bleaching tower. By heating under vacuum in the bleaching tower, the pigment in the oil is absorbed on the bleaching earth. The mixture is then pumped to the leaf filter and the waste clay is removed.

Crude Oil Deodorization Section

By steam distillation under high vacuum, the bleached oil is deodorized in the deodorization tower. The free fatty acids and unpleasant odor are removed. The removed fatty acid will be collected by the catcher and later to be used as the by-product.

Bleaching

The degummed and neutralized oil is mixed with bleaching earth and then the mixture is sent into the bleaching tower in the cottonseed oil refinery plant. By heating under vacuum, the residual gossypol and other pigments in the oil are adsorbed on the clay. The mixture from the bleaching tower is pumped into the leaf filter to remove the waste clay.

coconut oil refinery machines style

1. batch refining (1-20 TPD)
2. semi-continuous refining(20-50 TPD)
3. fully continuous refining(50-600 TPD)

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