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Mectech - Palm Oil Processing Plant
Palm oil refining industries are the most important manufacturing sectors in the world and Palm oil has become an increasingly important vegetable oil in the world market and today is the largest traded vegetable oil in the world. Indonesia & Malaysia are the largest producers with exporting companies of Crude Palm oil. Crude Palm oil is obtained from the Mesocarp part of palm oil. Extracted Crude Palm oil contains some undesirable impurities and these impurities need to be removed partially or completely through the palm oil refining process in order to produce good edible oil with better stability and keepability. Currently, Palm oil is a popular cooking oil in some tropical countries like South East Asia, Africa, and some parts of Brazil. Its popularity is due to its higher heat resistance as compared to any other vegetable oil and also because of its lower cost and good oxidative stability.
Palm oil is extracted from the flesh of the Palm fruit and Palm Kernel Oil is extracted from the seeds or kernel of the Palm fruit through the palm kernel oil process.
The Palm Oil is extracted from the fresh Palm fruit flesh by pressing & centrifugation, in a palm oil plant. The Palm Oil extraction is to be done with fresh Palm fruit to avoid the deterioration of Palm Oil. Hence, the countries cultivating Palm Oil are extracting themselves to avoid its deterioration. The crude Palm Oil comes out as yellow-red or dark yellow in color and the taste of the crude Palm Oil is sweet.
The Crude Palm Oil Extracted contains unwanted impurities which effect adversely on the physical appearance, quality, oxidative stability, and shelf life of the oil. In order to remove the above impurities, the oil goes to a palm oil refinery plant in order to receive the RBD Palm Oil (Refined Bleached & Deodorized). After refining the Palm Oil, the RBD oil goes to the fractionation section in order to get the Palm Olein and Stearin.
Palm Oil fractionation process flow
Refining is the process in which we remove the undesirable impurities from Crude Palm oil as mentioned below.
- Phospholipids
- Coloring pigments (Carotenoids)
- Free fatty acid
- Moisture, oxidative material, metal impurities, and water soluble impurities (glycerol, Phenols, Sugars).
The term refining includes the removal of above impurities in order of increasing shelf life and quality of Refined Vegetable oil.