Sun Flower Oil Refining Plant
A plethora of health benefits has placed Sunflower oil on millions of tables as one of the most favored cooking medium in India and abroad and across the world.
The low content of saturated fats and high content of Vitamin E makes its non-volatile nature the choicest cooking medium for frying. It enjoys vast popularity in the cosmetic industry for being the base for manufacturing numerous cosmetic formulations. Scientific research has placed Sunflower oil as a frontline agent for preventing cancer. It also lowers the cholesterol levels, improves coronary health, reduces inflammation, and boosts energy. It is a potent weapon in mankind's fight against skin injuries, arthritis, poorly healing wounds, hair growth and much more.
Process of Sunflower Oil Refining
After being extracted from sunflower seeds, crude sunflower oil is obtained post - multi-stage refining process that also helps attain the most favored qualities after removal of unwanted substances.
The following describes the multi-stage sunflower oil refining process:
Neutralization
The crude oil is neutralized as a first process, that primarily involves treatment of crude oil with alkali . Soap separation follows in order to remove soap from oil. Hot water is subsequently employed to wash the soap separated oil to remove the soap traces from oil followed by drying process to evaporate the moisture of oil.
The steps involved are -
- Conditioning
- Neutralization
- Washing
- Drying
Continuous Bleaching
In Bleaching process trace metals, dirt, color pigments, phospholipids, polycyclic aromatic compounds and numerous other impurities are eliminated from the Neutralized oil.
The multi-step process involves:
- Primary heating
- Acid and bleaching clay mixing
- Secondary heating
- Bleaching
- Filtration
Winterization
Waxes and saturated tri glycerides, which are fairly visible at low temperatures are removed at this stage.
Deodorization
Deodorization is a vacuum striping process in which given amount of steam is passed for a given period of time through hot oil @ a low pressure.
This process involves:
- De-aeration
- Pre-heating
- Striping
- Cooling
Mectech Advantage:
Sunflower Oil Refining Plant by Mectech is custom designed employing leading edge state of the art technologies for effective, efficient and optimized functioning in order to generate maximal returns. The major advantages of Mectech’s Sunflower Oil Refining Plant are :
- The Mectech plant is not only highly energy- efficient but ensures low cost of production for increasing probability of our customers.
- The cost of handling the plants is very low owing to their admirably high efficiency. As the output is guaranteed to be of the highest exportable quality, generation of high returns is assured.
- The bleacher is custom designed to eliminate mechanical agitation and optimize production processes.
- The processes are custom designed to ensure less consumption of bleaching earth and power consumed leading to savings in each production run. Additionally, bleaching is achieved at optimal moisture conditions to further optimize the processes.
- The cooling system and the crystallizer are also custom designed for attaining the process of nucleation at a high temperature extremely efficiently leading to process optimization and savings
- Wax content is reduced below 20 ppm
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