Vegetable Oil Processing
For there has so many vegetable in this world, vegetable oil will has the big opportunity for it produced to supply the local and international markets.
The vegetable oil processing is important for getting vegetable oil.
The preparation of raw materials: husking, cleaning, crushing, and conditioning.
The oil extraction processing: boiling, pressing, filtered, solvent extraction.
Of course, the most important step in vegetable oil processing is refining, crude vegetable oil contains some amounts of proteinaceous material, free fatty acids, and phosphatides. We refine the vegetable oil by reacting it with an alkali solution. Washing is the next step following refining. We use water to remove residual soap. And bleaching process will get rid of color-producing materials, deodorization remove volatile components. At last, the refined oil is then filtered and stored until used or transported.