Palm Oil Fractionation Line

Palm Oil Fractionation Line

Huatai palm oil fractionation machine can separate palm oil into oil products for different purposes according to the melting point by controlling the cooling and crystallization process. Low melting point products are in liquid phase (soft fat), which can be used for cooking and frying food, and high melting point products are in solid phase (hard fat), which can be used to make soap and candles. Due to different geographical locations, different countries have different temperature requirements for palm oil fractionation. There are three common palm oil fractionation temperatures: 18℃, 24℃, and 33℃.

Huatai’s palm oil fractionation equipment is suitable for a daily processing scale of 10-500 tons, which can not only meet the continuous fractionation needs of large palm oil mills, but also provide batch processing solutions for small and medium-sized customers. The extracted oil does not require complex packaging and can be directly canned or supplied to food and chemical companies.

Henan Huatai Cereals and Oils Machinery Co., Ltd. has focused on the research and development and manufacturing of palm oil processing machine for more than 37 years, and can provide you with complete palm oil fractionation line with different production capacities according to your requirements.

Advanced Palm Oil Fractionation Technology:

Huatai Oil Machinery has advanced palm oil fractionation technology and can provide the most practical and effective solutions according to different requirements of customers. There are three palm oil fractionation technologies: Palm oil dry fractionation technology, solvent fractionation technology and surfactant fractionation technology. Palm oil fractionation equipment adopts dry fractionation process. Dry fractionation is a relatively economical method.

Palm oil dry fractionation has the advantages of simple process, high degree of automatic control, low steam consumption, good product quality, no need for centrifugal separator, no other solvents, and no waste water.

Core Equipment and Main Process of Palm Oil Fractionation Line:

The palm oil fractionation process mainly includes three steps, namely heating palm oil, cooling and crystallization, and filtering and fractionation. The palm oil fractionation production line is mainly composed of the following equipment:

1. Crystallization system: The crystallization system includes a crystallization tank and a temperature-controlled water tank. According to the characteristics of different oil products, the cooling speed is accurately controlled by circulating water. The slow cooling allows the oil to form stable crystals to avoid uneven agglomeration.

2. Filtration system: The filtration system includes a diaphragm filter press and a conveying pipe. The oil is conveyed to the diaphragm filter press through an oil conveying pipe with an insulation design (to prevent the oil from solidifying and clogging during the process), and the liquid soft oil is separated from the solid hard fat with high pressure.

3. Auxiliary system: The auxiliary system includes a refrigeration unit and a PLC console. The refrigeration unit can provide a stable low-temperature water source for the system, and the energy consumption is 30% lower than that of traditional equipment. The PLC console can adjust the temperature and pressure with one button and automatically record the data of each batch.

1. Heat palm oil

Palm oil is semi-solid at room temperature and dissolves into a liquid state by heating with steam. Before crystallization, palm oil is usually heated to around 70°C to break up existing crystals.

2. Cooling and crystallization

The key to the palm oil dry fractionation process is cooling crystallization. If crystallization is successful, separation will be easy. Therefore, under the conditions of stirring and circulating water cooling, the cooling process should be controlled by setting the temperature difference between the oil and cooling water and the cooling time, so that it can form crystal nuclei and grow slowly. Cooling stops when the desired temperature is reached.

3. Filter

It is important to control the cooling and crystallization conditions, and the choice of filtration equipment also has a great influence on the yield of liquid oil. At present, the filtration systems used in industry are: drum filter, continuous belt vacuum filter and membrane filter. Over the past decade, membrane filters have been widely used in the palm oil fractionation industry. Compared with continuous belt vacuum filter and drum filter, membrane filter has a higher yield of soft fat (70%-75%) and higher hardness of stearic acid, while the other two filters The isolated soft fat yield is typically only 65%.

Palm Oil Fractionation Plant:

Palm oil fractionation plant has three fractions: stearin (palm stearine), soft fat (palm olein) andmiddle section (palm mid-fraction). After palm oil fractionation, palm oil will be clean after 5.5 hours in0’C to ensure it can keep flow ability and transparency in the refrigerator and improve the quality andappearance of palm oil.

The picture shows the palm oil processing plant and fractionation workshop we built for a customer in Cameroon. While producing palm oil, the customer maximizes the use of crude palm oil and has installed a palm oil soap production line. It has won high praise from customers for its simple and easy operation, easy use and maintenance, high oil yield and stable operation.

The palm oil fractionation workshop constructed by Huatai

The Strength of Huatai Oil Machinery

Over the past 30 years, many domestic and foreign customers have visited the factory of Huatai Oil Machinery every year, including representatives of oil industry associations, business owners who want to invest in palm oil mills, farmers who grow oil palm, and colleagues who come to exchange palm oil processing technology.

We have a modern, intelligent factory, professional cooking oil processing machine, including large laser cutting machines, plate rolling machines, welding equipment, spraying devices, etc., specializing in processing palm oil production machinery.

Photos of palm oil equipment being processed in Huatai’s workshop

Huatai can build a palm oil franctionation equipment or palm oil production line suitable for you according to your production needs. Our palm oil fractionation plant has the characteristics of high fractionation efficiency, power saving and labor saving, strong adaptability and simple maintenance.

1) Good fractionation effect and no waste

a. The soft oil yield is 5%-8% higher than the traditional process, and the stearin purity is higher, which can be directly used as cosmetic raw materials.

b. The filter cloth has a long life, low replacement cost, and the residual oil rate is controlled within 2%.

2) Power saving and labor saving

a. The refrigeration system starts and stops on demand to avoid no-load power consumption;

b. The diaphragm filter press automatically unloads the residue, and a single person can operate the entire production line.

3) Strong adaptability

a. No additional cooling tower is required in tropical areas, and groundwater circulation is used directly for cooling;

b. Supports the fractionation of various raw materials such as palm oil, palm kernel oil, coconut oil, etc.

4) Simple maintenance

a. The inner wall of the crystallization tank is polished, and it can be cleaned with a high-pressure water gun when cleaning;

b. All pipeline valves use quick-release interfaces, and the maintenance tools only require wrenches and screwdrivers.

How to Purchase Huatai’s Palm Oil Fractionation Machinery?

Huatai has rich experience in overseas export of palm oil equipment. If you want to buy our equipment, you only need to provide the following information in below, and we will arrange our experienced foreign trade sales team to connect with you:

Equipment parameters and list:

1) What process do you need? Do you only need palm oil fractionation equipment, or do you need palm fruit/kernel oil pressing, palm oil refining equipment, or other palm oil equipment?

2) What capacity of palm oil processing equipment do you need? How many tons of palm oil do you need to process every day?

3) Do you need a single machine or an entire section or a full set of palm oil production line?

4) Other export trade requirements.

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