Optimal Palm Oil Mill Plant Layout

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Palm oil mill plant layout

palm oil mill plant layout includes a series of separating and extraction processesthat are described below.

1. Harvesting - the Palm oil is extracted from palm fruits and these plants grow in thetropics usually in Africa. The bunch is cut when the fruit is ripe and these fruit bunchesare sent by trucks to the palm oil pressing plant.

2. Fruit Reception - the fruits arrived from the farm is dumped into a Fresh Fruit Bunch(FFB) hopper which is then transferred to fruit cages. The cages are then moved into asterilizer.

3. Sterilization - the sterilizer acts as a pressure cooker where the fruits are heated withsteam at a pressure of 45 psig for about one hour. This process softens the fruitsenabling the separation of the fruit from bunches and stopping the enzymes that causethe increase of Free fatty acids in the fruits.

4. Threshing - in the next stage, fruit cages are tipped and moved to a threshing machineusing the conveyor belt . The bunches get lifted up and dropped when they reach the topof the drum. This action helps the detachment of fruits from the bunches and theseparated fruit lets fall through the slots of the drum to a conveyor below.

5. Pressing - The fruits are moved to a digester which mashes up palm fruitlets so that theoil is extracted efficiently. The output from the screw press is press cake and crude palmoil. The extracted oil is mixed with fruit particles, water, sand and dirt and the press cakeis the transferred to the depericarpper for further processing

6. Clarification Station - The oil is pumped to a heated vertical tank where the separationof oil from the sludge takes place with the help of gravity. The oil is skimmed from thetop and the remaining dirt is removed in a purifier. The heated clean oil is then passed toa vacuum chamber for the removal of the remaining moisture.

7. Press Cake processing - The press cake is moved through a conveyor that assists thebreak up of cake to a depericarper, which is a square box with a strong suction. The airremoves the fibres and transports them to a cyclone. The nuts being heavier drop to thedepericarper and are cleaned on a rotary drum and transported to a silo for intermediatestorage.

8. Nut Processing - The nuts are first cracked in a nut cracker and the cracked mixtureconsists of kernels and shell which is then processed and separated. This is done in aircolumns and by a water bath in a hydro-cyclone. The kernels are dried in a silo and thenpacked in bags for sale and other factories extract oil from the kernel.

General layout of palm oil fractionation process

Multiple crystallizers are used in the series to maximize the use of filter throughgood planning. It is important to note that fractionation is quite modular technologyand very often results in a tailor-made palm oil mill plant. Several water tanks (twoto four), all at different temperatures, can be installed in order to maximize heatrecuperation while keeping all cooling medium in a closed loop, but this can just aswell be done with a single tank feeding chilled water to the crystallisers while steamis added to supply heat and normal cooling water is fed directly from a clean coolingtower. The fractional crystallisation of triglyceride oil is a slow process. The wholefiltration and the squeezing operation can take from 30 to 90 minutes.

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