Castor Oil Processing and Castor Oil Press

Castor Oil Processing

Castor oil processing is very important process in the oil milling plant, castor oil press is necessary in castor oil processing or you can say castor oil production.

Castor oil is one of the most useful plant oils all over the world. Castor oil is used in pharmaceuticals, food, and other industries in various grades. Apart from that, castor oil is the source of a number of useful oleochemicals. This kind of oil can provide comprehensive resources related to castor plant, castor bean, castor oil, castor derivatives & castor-based oleochemicals.

Castor seeds are grown commercially on plantations but also harvested from wild plants. The seeds contain about 50 percent oil by weight. During the process of cator oil processing, these seeds must be crushed and pressed with hydraulic or continuous castor oil press at high or low temperature. High temperature hydraulic pressing yields 80 percent of available oil. Further castor oil processing can release much of the remaining oil.

The seed must be hulled after harvesting. Castor oil processing can be done manually by hand or more commonly by castor oil press. Maybe small-scale hand-operated dehullers are your choice. Modification of the oil is achieved by a variety of chemical processes including oxidation, hydrogenation, and thermal treatments to produce products for specific applications. Extracted oil is filtered and the material removed from the oil is fed back into the stream along with fresh material. Materials are finally discharged from the castor oil press, called cake, contains 8 to 10 percent oil. It is crushed into a coarse meal, and subjected to solvent extraction with hexane.

Castor Oil Press

In the entire process of castor oil processing, castor oil press can also be used for peanuts, beans, sesame, soybean, cotton seed, flax, sunflower seed, coconut, cacao, jatropha seed, tea seed, prickly ash seed, chilli seed, corn germ, and other many kinds of oilseeds plants.

When the castor oil press is operating, prepared material enters extruding chamber from the hopper and then moves forward by the rotating pressing screw and is pressed. Under the high-pressure condition in the chamber, friction between material and screw, between material and chamber will be created, which also creates friction and relative movement among material particles. On the other hand, root diameter of the pressing screw caries larger from one end to the other, hence. When rotating, it not only pushes particles moving forwards but turns them outwards as well, meanwhile, particles adjacent the screw will rotate along with the screw's rotating, causing every particle inside the chamber to possess different speed. Therefore relative movement among particle creates heat which is necessary during castor oil processing because of helping protein changeproperty, damage colloid, increase plasticity, decrease oil's elasticity, and results in high oil productivity.

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