All the vegetable oils and fats that we consume in our everyday life have to undergo various processes in a facility provided by the top edible oil refinery suppliers in India before they are supplied in the markets for the general public. Extracted from different plant sources such as soybean, olives, groundnuts, and mustard seeds, all these oils are mostly processed and refined in a vegetable oil solvent extraction plant.
Although there are so many vegetable oil extraction methodologies available, most manufacturers opt for solvent extraction techniques for the commercial production of vegetable oils. Solvent extraction is a fully chemical-driven methodology that offers maximum (95%) yields providing the oil with commercial viability. On the other hand, the conventional mechanical methods offer only 60 to 70% yields that are not considered to be suitable for commercial oil manufacturers or producers because 30% of oil goes waste in the cake.
How does it work?
The process that takes place in a sophisticated vegetable oil solvent extraction plant is all about treating the raw materials (seeds) with hexane and recovering the maximum amount of oil through the distillation process. The evaporation and condensation from the distillation process fetch all the hexane that is absorbed in the material during the process.
The vegetable oil extraction process carried out in a facility provided by the leading edible oil refinery suppliers in India is divided into the following 6 stages:
- Preparation of raw material
- Process of extraction
- Desolventization of extracted material
- Distillation of miscella
- Solvent recovery by absorption, and
- Meal finishing and bagging.
As the demand for high-quality, well-filtered vegetable oil is increasing across the globe, oil-producing units are opting for solvent extraction methods for maximum yields which result in more production and increased benefits.
Concluding Remarks
Mectech is one of the leading edible oil refinery suppliers in India that manufactures and supplies vegetable oil solvent extraction plant to meet the needs of oil refineries both in India and abroad. The company also offers plants for Glycerin Refining, Glycerolysis, Fatty Acid Plain/fractional Distillation, Hydrogenation, Soap Stock Splitting, and Continuous Saponification.
