The Present and Trend of Oil Pretreatment Technology in China

With the accelerated process of intensification and modernization of agricultural production, Oil pretreatment technology must adapt to the requirements of the entire oil and fat industry development. Edible oil production and process is an economically valuable business.

The market demand is always there and is increasing, many investors had great interest in edible oil production and choose to invest in it, the oil mill machinery manufacturing industry and the oil processing plant has been rapidly growing with heavy investment within the last recent years, the process of large-scale，mechanization and automation of the process of oil and fat industry is accelerated. The application of new technologies, new processes and new equipment has injected new vitality into the development of the oil industry.

Oilseeds pretreatment technology should be organically connected with the requirements of the final product, for example: the dehulling process to increase the protein content in the meal; the pretreatment with different temperatures to get products of different qualities.

Automation and control is the development trend of oil and fat industry, with expansion of the oil processing scale, it’s becoming very important (Automatic measurement, automatic detection and monitoring, automatically display, automatic alarm). The manual operation is not always good, the process parameters is volatile, and this would be more obvious when in the large scale production, manual operation is not efficient and proper, only automatic control can achieve large-scale and stable production and is labor-saving, so this is one of the trends for oil pretreatment technology.