As the world's largest-produced vegetable oil, the palm oil processing technology and equipment level directly determine the quality of the oil and production efficiency. As a leading enterprise in China's grain and oil machinery industry, Henan Huatai Cereals and Oils Machinery Co., Ltd., with over thirty years of technological accumulation, has developed industry-leading complete plant solutions for palm oil processing. This article will systematically introduce the core process flow and key equipment of palm oil processing, showcasing Huatai Oil Machinery's professional strength in this field.
1. Core Process Flow of Palm Oil Processing
1) Raw Material Reception and Sterilization
After fresh palm fruit bunches (FFB) enter the palm oil factory through the conveying system, the first step is high-temperature sterilization. Huatai Oil Machinery's high-efficiency sterilization tank uses three-dimensional heating technology, processing at 100-130℃ for 60-90 minutes, effectively inactivating enzymes and sterilizing, softening the fruit tissue, and laying the foundation for subsequent fruit separation.
2) Fruit Threshing and Digester
The sterilized fruit bunches enter Huatai's patented palm oil threshing machine, where the fruit is separated from the fruit stalk through rotational friction. The fruit separation rate can reach over 99%. The separated fruits are then digestered by a palm oil digesting machine, achieving preliminary separation of the pulp and kernel.
3) Crude Oil Extraction by Pressing
The digestered palm fruit pulp enters the double-screw palm oil press, a flagship product of Huatai Oil Machinery. The equipment uses special wear-resistant steel and a high-precision gear transmission system, increasing the oil yield by 3-5% compared to traditional equipment, while reducing energy consumption by more than 15%.
4) Palm Oil Refining and Fractionation
After sedimentation and filtration, the crude palm oil enters the refining section:
Degumming and Deacidification: Using a palm oil physical refining process, free fatty acids are removed through high-temperature steam distillation.
Decolorization and Deodorization: Huatai's multi-stage tray deodorization tower removes odor-causing substances and pigments in a high-temperature vacuum environment.
Winterization and Fractionation: Different components of palm oil are separated through controlled temperature crystallization to produce liquid palm oil and solid palm stearin.
5) Comprehensive Utilization of By-products
Huatai Oil Machinery provides complete by-product processing solutions:
Palm kernel oil is extracted after the kernels are separated and crushed.
The pressed cake can be used as high-quality animal feed raw material.
Empty fruit bunch fibers are used for biomass power generation.
2. Technical Advantages of Huatai Palm Oil Processing Equipment
1) Intelligent Control System
Huatai's system integrates PLC automatic control and online monitoring, achieving full-process digital management from raw materials to finished products. Key process parameters are adjustable in real time, and the fault warning accuracy rate can reach over 95%.
2) Energy-Saving and Environmentally Friendly Design
The waste heat recovery system can recover and utilize the thermal energy of high-temperature wastewater.
The wastewater treatment device meets national first-class emission standards.
Fully enclosed pipeline transportation reduces oil oxidation and pollution.
3) Modular Layout
Huatai provides standardized modular designs with processing capacities ranging from 10 tons to 1000 tons per day, which can be flexibly combined according to customer needs, shortening the plant construction cycle by more than 30%.
3. Huatai Oil Machinery's Global Practice
Henan Huatai Cereals and Oils Machinery Co., Ltd.'s palm oil processing equipment has been exported to more than 30 major palm oil producing countries, including Ghana, Cameroon, and Nigeria, and has cumulatively built over 100 oil and fat engineering projects. The 100-ton per day palm fruit oil processing project in Democratic Republic of the Congo set the record for the single export value of Chinese oil and fat machinery.
The company's R&D center has established industry-university-research cooperation with Henan University of Technology and Wuhan Polytechnic University, continuously promoting innovative breakthroughs in palm oil processing technology. The "low-temperature pressing process" developed in recent years has increased the retention rate of vitamin E in palm oil by 40%, and has won the National Science and Technology Progress Award.
4. Development Trends in the Palm Oil Processing Industry and Huatai's Strategic Layout
With increasing global demand for sustainable palm oil (RSPO) certification, Huatai Oil Machinery is developing:
Zero-emission palm oil processing closed-loop systems
AI-based visual sorting equipment for palm fruit ripeness
Specialty oils produced through advanced palm oil processing technology
Conclusion
Palm oil processing is a technology-intensive industry, and the sophistication of process equipment directly determines a company's competitiveness. Henan Huatai Cereals and Oils Machinery Co., Ltd., driven by independent innovation, provides customers with full-chain services from process design and equipment manufacturing to installation and commissioning, continuously promoting the global palm oil processing industry towards efficiency, energy saving, and intelligence. Whether you are planning to build a new palm oil processing plant or upgrade an existing palm oil production line, Huatai Oil Machinery's professional team can provide you with customized solutions.
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