Solvent Extraction Plant

Solvent extraction plant is used for extracting oil from seed or cake. For soya bean seed it is widely use in all over the world, for that seed preparation and seed cleaning system is requires.

• Oil cakes consists about 6 to 8% of oil that is received from oil Mill and seeds are contains from 18% to 28% of the oil in the seeds
• For seeds cleaning and flaking is requires and cake is in big pieces fo it requires to make in small pieces through cracker and barker as a form of pieces in the sizes of 3mm to 5mm
• If there is seeds it passes through conditioning and flaking, for cake feed it in pieces
• The prepared material then fed into Solvent Extraction Plant through conveyor

Solvent Extraction has following stages :

• Rotary Valve and feeding chain
• Extraction of oil from seeds/cake in extractor
• Distillation/Evaporation of Hexane to recover Oil from miscella
• De solvent of Extracted Meal
• Condensation of Hexane and prepare for recycling
• Solvent absorption system

The solvent oil is not for human consumption so it will send to refinery for refining of oil and removing of all impurities. The cake is called de oiled cake then passes through cooling system and sends for packaging

Features of Solvent Extraction plants :

• Because of Solvent requires fire hydrant and safety system
• Low flow resistance
• Very durable
• Cost effective
• require low maintenance but requires continue watch