• How is crude oil produced in a soybean crushing plant?
  • The crude oil is usually water degummed in the crushing plant which generates an additional flow, consisting of gums (or lecithin). Table 1 presents the main quality parameters (optimal contents) of the major products from soybean crushing.
  • What are the benefits of soybean hulls?
  • On top of the better quality of final product for some seed qualities, it brought savings of about 20 to 25?kg steam/t of seed. As lateral benefit, the residual oil in hulls is also improved, bringing down the oil in hull from almost 2% to 1% (for soybean).
  • What is soybean Hull purification?
  • In the preparation plant (Fig. 2), the seeds are successfully cleaned, weighted, conditioned, cracked, dehulled and flaked. Hulls purification is the process of reclaiming the small particles of soybean meats and fines from the soybean hulls removed during conditioning and cracking/dehulling.
  • What is the residual oil content of soybean meal?
  • It is critical to avoid the presence of cracks in order to get reasonable residual oil content in the meal. In a modern and efficient extraction plant (Fig. 9), a residual oil content ¡Ü?0.5% for soybean meal is expected.
  • What solvent is used to make soybean protein concentrate?
  • It should be noted that other solvents may be required to produce different and specific products; for example, an alcohol-water mixture is used in an additional extraction step (after hexane extraction) to produce soy protein concentrate (or ¡°SPC¡±) by removing the sugars from standard soybean meal (Wang et al., 2004).
  • Why are soybean hulls grinding?
  • Soybean hulls have a very low bulk density; they are fibrous and are not free flowing. The purpose of hulls grinding is to increase their bulk density and flow ability, in order to prepare them for pelletizing.