• How does Alfa Laval refine crude oil into edible oil?
  • Refining crude oil into edible oil requires deep process knowledge¡ªfrom degumming, neutralization and dewaxing through to bleaching, deodorizing and GE and 3-MCPD mitigation. Edible oil producers worldwide rely on Alfa Laval know-how to remove impurities and volatile components and optimize refining processes.
  • What are sustainable process improvements in edible oil refining?
  • Sustainable process improvements help you avoid loss and optimize the performance of your production system. In edible oil refining unwanted components are removed from the raw oil. Every process step has its own challenges and needs specific actions and process instrumentation. The main refining process steps:
  • How does edible oil refining work?
  • In edible oil refining unwanted components are removed from the raw oil. Every process step has its own challenges and needs specific actions and process instrumentation. The main refining process steps: Endress+Hauser offers a deep industry expertise and knowledge to offer you the right process instrumentation.
  • What type of equipment is used to produce coconut oil?
  • Uses mechanical type of equipment to produce the oil. Applicable in a village scale plant operation (5,000+ nuts/day). MC of dried kernel for extraction should be within the range of 10¨C12%. Uses manually operated equipment to produce the oil. Produces a semi-dry coconut residue that has to be further dried or processed to have market value.
  • How to process coconut oil in the Philippines?
  • It is better to process the dried kernel while it is still warm to help ensure that the oil flows easily during the extraction process. The Anderson expeller, which is generally used in the coconut oil milling industry in the Philippines, has a built-in conditioner-cooker to adjust the moisture content and temperature of the milled copra.
  • How are coconuts selected for VCO processing?
  • Since coconuts do not fall naturally from the tree unless they are mature or over-mature, on-farm selection of coconuts for VCO processing consists of segregating the good mature nuts (Figure 46) from the over-mature nuts with signs of germination or growth (Figure 47).