Cottonseed Oil Mill Plant

Cottonseed oil is extracted from the seeds of cotton plants. Refined cotton seed oil is edible. India, China, Pakistan, USA and Brazil are among the top producers of cotton seed oil in the world. Let us now know about the various aspects of cottonseed oil plant - it's manufacturing process, world market status and other features. 

ABC Machinery have engaged in designing and establishing oil mill plant for almost 20 years and have registered more than 30 patent licenses. We can offer complete equipment for cooking oil extraction and refinery, encompasses the entire production process, including seed pre-cleaning and pre-heating equipment, oil press, oil filtration machinery, and oil refining plant. You are welcome to contact us for detailed information about our machinery or the cost of starting edible oil manufacturing business!

Cottonseed Oil Mill Plant [Project Display]

A cottonseed oil mill plant that has a commercial grade is likely to be compatible with solvent extraction, which requires cottonseed cake solvent extraction workshop, crude cottonseed oil refinery workshop, and cotton seeds pretreatment and pre-pressing workshop. The following products can be derived from a cotton oil mill project: cottonseed soap stock, cottonseed oil, cottonseed hull, and cottonseed oil.

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Finished Cottonseed Processing Plant

Cottonseed contains 0.15% to 1.8% of gossypol, a toxic substance. The cottonseed kernels, on the other hand, can contain from 0.5% up to 2.5% gossypol. After going through refining , the gossypol content is reduced to 0.01%.

Cottonseed Oil Manufacturing Process

Pretreatment and Pre-pressing of Cotton Seeds

Equipment for Cottonseed Delinting

Cottonseeds Pre-treatment Equipment

• The Delinting Machine /  Flanneler

Cottonseeds that have lint will have to go through the delinting machine to remove the lint.

• Cleaning of Cottonseeds

To remove impurities, the cottonseeds will have to go through a cleaning process that includes the use of a vibrating screen, magnetic separator, and winnower. The magnetic separator is used for removing tiny metallic materials. The vibrating screen is needed to remove large impurities. The winnower can get rid of dust and other light impurities.

• Removing the Hulls

Hulls makeup about 40% to 55% percent of cottonseeds and also has 0.3% to 1% oil. You can get 14% to 25% oil from cottonseed and 30% to 40% oil from the kernels. The hulls also have residue wax, pesticide, brown pigment, and lint, which can compromise the quality of cottonseed products. Hence, removing the hulls is very important. The hulls, on the other hand, can be used as livestock feed and growing medium for mushrooms. (Read more about livestock feed production >>)

The common choice of equipment for removing cottonseed hulls is a toothed roller crusher. It has a huge capacity, high kernel rate, good hulling rate, better production, easy low maintenance, and low power consumption.

• Separating of Hull and Kernel

Separating the hulls and kernels can improve the quality of the meal and oil. The vibrating screen is used by cottonseed oil mill plant for this. The hulls go through the hull beater to remove residual kernel pieces.

• Flaking the Cottonseeds

This converts cottonseeds into flakes as well as removes the cell walls that decrease oil yield and its yielding speed. Processing plants use flaking rollers to get ensure that the thickness of the flakes is uniform. These rollers are durable and high-performance.

• Cooking the Flakes

A vertical cooker is used by a cottonseed oil mill plant to cook the flakes. The flakes go straight from the flaking roller to the vertical cooker. The temperature and moisture of the flakes are adjusted in the cooker to reduce gossypol content and improve crude oil quality.
 

Cottonseed Oil Pressing & Filteration

Screw Oil Pressing Section

Cottonseed Oil Mill Machinery

• Cottonseed Oil Pressing / Expelling (by using Mechanical Screw type Oil Press)

Cottonseeds can be pre-pressed before they get sent directly to the refinery plant. To handle 20 tons of cottonseed per day, the solvent extraction method is used with cottonseed oil prepress to take parts of the oil. The machine used for the job has a large capacity and its cake leaves less residual, which makes it easy for the solvent to penetrate.

• Oil Filtering

Residual oil can be collected with the use of an oil residue scraper. Leaf Filter is used for filtering the oil from the cottonseed. The leaf filters used by processing plants are precise and can easily remove oil residue. The oil will then be pumped into the crude oil tank while the pre-pressed cake is taken for solvent extraction.

Cottonseed Cake Solvent Extraction Workshop

Cottonseed Oil Solvent Extraction Plant

Desolventizer

• Extracting Oil from Cottonseed Cakes by Solvent

The extraction of oil involves using an organic solvent, which allows the extraction of oil from the cake inside the extractor. Other extractors such as rotocel extractor, towline extractor and loop type extractor for better production. The solvent with the wet meal and miscella are collected after oil extraction. To remove the fines, the miscella will be pumped into the hydrocyclone. Next, the miscella is taken to the miscella tank.

• Removing the Solvent

To remove the solvent from the meal, the wet meal goes through the DTDC desolventizing in the plant.

• Solvent Recovery

After entering the condensing system, the recycled solvent goes through the holding tank for circulation. Water is extracted and taken to a water tank. The gas from the plant goes through a mineral oil system to have the solvent recovered from it. Recovering the solvent can help lessen the consumption of solvent and make production safer.
 

Fractionation and Refining Crude Cottonseed Oil

30ton/day Cottonseed Oil Refinery Plant

Refining crude cottonseed oil to produce edible / cooking oil. It involves bleaching, De-acidification, deodorization, and degumming. Fractionation can get solid and liquid oil through solid and liquid separation and cooling crystallization.

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Start Small Scale Cotton Seed Oil Mill Plant (1~10ton/day)

If you want to build a top quality Cottonseed Oil Mill Plant with or without refning plant, the very first step is to buy high quality oil extraction and refinery machinery - Lesser power consumption, minimum noise during operation and continuous production for better productivity. The following is the HOT Sale Unite for small scale cottonseed oil mill:

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Tips for Running A Cottonseed Oil Mill Plant

Learn about these ​points before you start your own cotton seed oil mill plant: Conduct thorough research on the what you require for cottonseed oil business in terms of market size, capital and trends. Know your competitors. Make a business plan and write down your planned location, finances and target market. Learn about the rules and regulations. Employ candidates those who are experienced in the cooking oil manufacturing process. The followings are some tips for running a cottonseed oil processing plant:

• Manufacturing of cottonseed oil requires particular storage climate conditions. This heating criteria should be maintained during the entire transport chain.
• The tanks that are needed for transporting cottonseed oils must be completely dry.
• There should be no ventilation under any circumstances.
• Cottonseed oil exhibitions 3rd order biotic activity.
• Though the respiration processes of cottonseed oil are suspended, microbial, biochemical and other decomposition processes still proceed. These decomposition processes must be kept at a low level.
• The gases are required to be measured before anyone enters the empty tank as oxidation processes may result in a dangerous shortage of O₂.
• The cottonseed oil has a high possibility to ignite spontaneously if it comes in touch with sawdust or material residues.
• Cottonseed oil has a mild odor when packed, but gradually its odor becomes acrid and unpleasant.
• Leaking oils can lead to huge contamination by ferrous and rust particles and water.