• castor seed soybean oil solvent extraction plant plc in Mozambique
  • castor seed soybean oil solvent extraction plant plc in Mozambique
  • castor seed soybean oil solvent extraction plant plc in Mozambique
  • castor seed soybean oil solvent extraction plant plc in Mozambique
  • What is a solvent extraction plant?
  • The solvent extraction plant is designed to extract oil directly from oil seeds containing less than 20% oil, like soybeans, after flaking. Or it extracts oils from pre-pressed or fully pressed cake of seeds containing more than 20% oil like sunflowers, peanuts, cotton seed, palm kernels, canola, copra, castor and a variety of other materials.
  • What is solvent extraction?
  • Solvent extraction is a process to extract the oil from oil bearing materials by means of a solvent. A typical solvent used is hexane, a by-product of petroleum. The solvent extraction plant is designed to extract oil directly from oil seeds containing less than 20% oil, like soybeans, after flaking.
  • Where is castor seed oil extracted?
  • We are experienced in turnkey Castor Seed Oil Extraction Plants. Our machines are working successfully in over 55 countries. Major Castor Seed producing countries are Brazil, India and Argentina. Other countries growing Castor include Indonesia, Indo-China, Madagascar, Angola and Mozambique.
  • How does a castor seed extraction machine work?
  • Due to cooking, the oil droplets in the seeds come together and also the cell wall is broken, this results in improved oil yield and low power consumption. A continuous screw press is used to extract the oil. The castor seed passes through the machine where the screw shaft is rotated in the parallel direction and crushing the seeds.
  • Can castor seeds be used as raw material for castor oil press?
  • Castor Seeds obtained after the Cleaning process can be used as a raw material for Castor Oil Press. Castor seeds contain 45 – 50 % oil content. After two stage pressing, about 8 % residual oil is left in the oilcake/meal. The castor seeds are conditioned using Steam in a Cooking Kettle.
  • How much oil is in castor seed?
  • Castor seed entering in the industry has approximately 48% of oil content ( Severino et al., 2015 ), and the castor cake sampled just after the expeller press had the oil content reduced to 10.96% ± 1.93 ( Table 2 ). The extraction with solvent reduced the oil content of the wet castor meal to 1.71% ± 0.57 ( Table 2).