• What happens in a sunflower oil refinery?
  • The extracted sunflower oil is still crude. What happens in an oil refinery is an important part of how sunflower oil is made suitable for human consumption. Oil refining is a multi-stage process, with the steps involved varying greatly based on the oil in question.
  • How is sunflower oil made?
  • But naturally, when carried out at an industrial scale, the sunflower oil making process has more steps and more complexity involved. Within a factory setting, the process begins with preparatory steps and culminates in bleaching and deodorizing ¨C essentially, the refining process. So, how is sunflower oil extracted?
  • What are the advantages of Physical refining of sunflower oil?
  • Physical refining has several advantages compared to the classical chemical one. This process is more economical (improved yield, lower investment cost, less chemicals used) environmental friendly process (no soapstock to be treated, splitted) but more sensitive to the crude oil quality. Physical refining of sunflower oil is discussed in details.
  • How to refine sunflower oil?
  • Physical refining of sunflower oil is discussed in details. Recent developments in the field of processes, equipment and control have made possible to refine by physical way the high phosphatide containing seed oils as well.
  • What are the steps in sunflower oil production?
  • When it comes to sunflower oil, the steps that are critical in the production of clear, high quality, and safe edible oil are degumming, alkali neutralisation, bleaching, dewaxing, deodorisation, and an optional winterization process ¨C each of these processes is explained in detail elsewhere on our blog and website. So there you have it.
  • What is edible oil refining?
  • Edible oil refining is the process of converting raw vegetable oil into edible oil. Raw vegetable oils, whether obtained through pressing or solvent extraction, contain unwanted components such as free fatty acids, phospholipids, and others, which cause undesirable flavors, odors, and appearances.