• What is cottonseed oil?
  • Cottonseed oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of the cotton plant after the cotton lint has been removed. It¡¯s composed of linters (10%), cotton shell (40~45%) and kernel. the oil content of cotton seed is 15%-25%, the oil content of kernel is 30%-40% after decorticating.
  • What is cottonseed oil (CSO)?
  • The worldwide cottonseed production in 2019¨C2020 was 43 million metric ton (Kumar et al. 2022). Cottonseed oil (CSO) is the by-product of cotton manufacturer; extracted from the decorticated and delinted cottonseed for their used as edible oil and industrial applications (Orhevba and Efomah 2012; Shah 2017).
  • How to extract CSO from cottonseed?
  • Twenty grams of Lankart-57, RH-112, F-20, K-25, and D-9 cottonseed varieties were used to extract CSO by Soxhlet method using 300 mL n-hexane as solvent at 70 ¡ãC temperature for 5 h, and result shows oil content in the range of 12 to 14.55% (Shah 2017).
  • How to squeeze out oil from cotton seeds?
  • Cracking: Adopting the toothed cracking roller to make the cotton seeds kernel into a right uniform pcs which can keep a moderate block size for squeezing out the oil.