• What is corn oil extraction plant?
  • Corn oil extraction plant extracts corn germ from corn and produces corn germ oil by solvent extraction method. The corn oil production line includes corn germ extraction process, corn germ pretreatment and prepressing process, corn germ cake solvent extraction process and crude corn germ oil refining process.
  • What is corn germ?
  • Corn germ is a substantial byproduct of the wet milling and alcohol industry of corn. Corn germ (dry) contains 35¨C56 % oil, with linoleic acid (C18:2) being the predominant fatty acid (49¨C61.9 %) and the highest level of tocopherol and phytosterol amongst all vegetable oils, which is a cost-effective resource for healthy nutritious oil.
  • How to extract oil from corn germ?
  • With the development of corn processing industry such as starch, starch sugar and alcohol in recent years, corn germ oil has increased rapidly in the international market and has become one of the main edible vegetable oil varieties in the world. The main methods to extract oil from corn or maize germ: Screw pressing and solvent extraction .
  • What is the oil content of corn / maize germ?
  • Oil content of Corn / Maize germ produced by Wet Milling is as high as 50% and that by Dry Milling is about 25%. We undertake turnkey project solutions for the complete Corn / Maize-Germ Oil Extraction Plant. Major Corn producing countries are USA, China, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Ukraine, India, Indonesia, Russia, Canada, France and Romania.
  • Can corn germs be milled before oil extraction?
  • Grinding oilseeds prior to oil extraction may enlarge the interface between material particles and aqueous solvent or enzyme, and then enhance free oil yield. In previous research, colloid milling was employed to mill corn germs (Dickey et al. 2010 ). In this study, a dry milling method was developed to grind corn germ.
  • How is corn germ oil produced?
  • Currently, commercial corn germ oil is produced by pressing and/or hexane extraction (Moreau and Hicks 2005 ), in which oil is obtained from conditioned (heated) germs, followed by mechanically expelled (¡®pre-pressed¡¯) and then hexane extraction (Moreau 2011 ).