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1. Optimal Palm Oil Mill Plant Layout
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layout design and complete palm oil processing machinery for years. We have
established professional development and design team for improve the productivity
of palm oil mills or palm oil plants.
Palm oil mill plant layout
palm oil mill plant layout includes a series of separating and extraction processes
that are described below.
1. Harvesting - the Palm oil is extracted from palm fruits and these plants grow in the
tropics usually in Africa. The bunch is cut when the fruit is ripe and these fruit bunches
are sent by trucks to the palm oil pressing plant.
2. Fruit Reception - the fruits arrived from the farm is dumped into a Fresh Fruit Bunch
(FFB) hopper which is then transferred to fruit cages. The cages are then moved into a
sterilizer.
3. Sterilization - the sterilizer acts as a pressure cooker where the fruits are heated with
steam at a pressure of 45 psig for about one hour. This process softens the fruits
enabling the separation of the fruit from bunches and stopping the enzymes that cause
the increase of Free fatty acids in the fruits.
4. Threshing - in the next stage, fruit cages are tipped and moved to a threshing machine
using the conveyor belt . The bunches get lifted up and dropped when they reach the top
of the drum. This action helps the detachment of fruits from the bunches and the
separated fruit lets fall through the slots of the drum to a conveyor below.
5. Pressing - The fruits are moved to a digester which mashes up palm fruitlets so that the
oil is extracted efficiently. The output from the screw press is press cake and crude palm
oil. The extracted oil is mixed with fruit particles, water, sand and dirt and the press cake
is the transferred to the depericarpper for further processing
6. Clarification Station - The oil is pumped to a heated vertical tank where the separation
of oil from the sludge takes place with the help of gravity. The oil is skimmed from the
top and the remaining dirt is removed in a purifier. The heated clean oil is then passed to
a vacuum chamber for the removal of the remaining moisture.

2. 7. Press Cake processing - The press cake is moved through a conveyor that assists the
break up of cake to a depericarper, which is a square box with a strong suction. The air
removes the fibres and transports them to a cyclone. The nuts being heavier drop to the
depericarper and are cleaned on a rotary drum and transported to a silo for intermediate
storage.
8. Nut Processing - The nuts are first cracked in a nut cracker and the cracked mixture
consists of kernels and shell which is then processed and separated. This is done in air
columns and by a water bath in a hydro-cyclone. The kernels are dried in a silo and then
packed in bags for sale and other factories extract oil from the kernel.
General layout of palm oil fractionation process
Multiple crystallizers are used in the series to maximize the use of filter through
good planning. It is important to note that fractionation is quite modular technology
and very often results in a tailor-made palm oil mill plant. Several water tanks (two
to four), all at different temperatures, can be installed in order to maximize heat
recuperation while keeping all cooling medium in a closed loop, but this can just as
well be done with a single tank feeding chilled water to the crystallisers while steam
is added to supply heat and normal cooling water is fed directly from a clean cooling
tower. The fractional crystallisation of triglyceride oil is a slow process. The whole
filtration and the squeezing operation can take from 30 to 90 minutes.
ABC Machinery provides optimal palm oil mill plant layout and design for all palm oil
mills or factories, from small-scale to large-scale. What’s more, you can also find
palm oil complete machines and refinery machinery in our company to fulfill your
business ambitions. If you are interested to know more about factory layout for palm
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