What should I know about a palm oil refinery plant if I want to refine crude palm oil?

If you want to refine crude palm oil, you had better to know some related things about palm oil refinery plant in advance, such as the crude palm oil refinery process, the types of palm oil refinery equipment, how to select suitable palm oil refinery equipment, the national standard of palm oil, etc. Knowing these will help you finish your project faster.

1. The feature of crude palm oil refinery process

You should know that crude palm oil refinery process is different from other kinds of crude vegetable oil refinery process, which is related to the characteristic of crude palm oil.

Crude palm oil refinery process

In crude palm oil, there is less colloidal impurities, but higher acid value and more pigment. So to refine crude palm oil is able to use dry degumming method to remove colloidal impurities, which has advantage of less waste water. As for high acid value, we recommend to adopt physical refining method to remove the free fatty acid. Besides, the dosage of white clay in decolorization process will be more. If you want to set up a palm oil refinery plant, it is very necessary for you to discuss the palm oil refinery process with engineers.

2. The types of palm oil refinery equipment

The types of palm oil refinery equipment are divided into three kinds: Batch type, semi-continuous and full continuous. They have different daily processing capacities, from 1tpd to 1000tpd.

3. How to select suitable palm oil refinery equipment

Batch type palm oil refienry equipment

It should depend on your budget. Because the palm oil refinery equipment with advanced crude palm oil refinery process usually is with high cost and large daily processing capacity. If your budget is limit, you can select small kind of crude palm oil refinery machine, such as 1tpd, 2tpd, 5tpd batch type palm oil refinery machine. And then you can expand your palm oil refinery plant later if you have more capital.

4. The national standard of palm oil

Another thing you should know is the national standard of crude palm oil in your country. Doing this is to make sure that the palm oil refinery equipment you bought can produce eligible refined palm oil. Besides, if you plan to set up a palm oil refinery plant, you must talk this national standard with the engineer to make sure that the final oil can be qualified.

Crude palm oil and refined palm oil national standard in China

All in all, if you want to refine crude palm oil, welcome to ask us. We Henan GLORY Company has more than 10 years experience. As long as you want to set up a palm oil refinery plant, any questions will be welcomed.