Troika Processes P Ltd Nariman Point, Mumbai, Maharashtra

Edible oil refining plant - process of refining a) what is refining? the crude oil obtained either from expellers or solvent extraction plant contains impurities, which must be removed to make the oil edible, more palatable and stable against rancidity upon storage. the process of removing these impurities is called refining.

Vegetable oils are an essential ingredient for human diet. No food worth taste could be prepared without use of vegetable oils. Depending on Geographical locations different varieties of oils are popular in different region. Nature has given distinct individual characteristics to all vegetable oils. The simplest and age-old method of obtaining edible vegetable oil has been simple mechanical extraction. The oil is squeezed out from oil seeds by applying mechanical pressure. The common equipment used now a daysis Screw Press.

vegetable oil refinery plant are an essential ingredient for human diet. No food worth taste could be prepared without use of vegetable oils. Depending on Geographical locations different varieties of oils are popular in different region. Nature has given distinct individual characteristics to all vegetable oils. The simplest and age-old method of obtaining edible vegetable oil has been simple mechanical extraction. The oil is squeezed out from oil seeds by applying mechanical pressure. The common equipment used now a daysis Screw Press.

Solvent Extraction, as the name suggests is a process to extract the oil from oil bearing materials by means of Solvent, Solvent used being normal Hexane - a petroleum bye product. The plant is designed to extract oil directly from oil seed containing less than 20% oil like soya bean after flaking or it extracts oils from repressed or fully pressed cake of seeds containing more than 20% oil like sunflower, peanuts, cotton seed, palm kernel, canola, copra, castor and variety of other materials.

Solvent Extraction, as the name suggests is a process to extract the oil from oil bearing materials by means of Solvent, Solvent used being normal Hexane – a petroleum bye product. The plant is designed to extract oil directly from oil seed containing less than 20% oil like soyabean after flaking or it extracts oils from prepressed or fully pressed cake of seeds containing more than 20% oil like sunflower, peanuts, cotton seed, palm kernel, canola, copra, castor and variety of other materials.Troika’s proven design is simple, robust, operator friendly flexible for easy change over of the process material and with inbuilt safety features. Troika plants have been operating for more than three decades.The extractor is horizontal in construction a concept with universal acceptance, infact most of the extraction plants working through out the world have adopted horizontal design of extractor. The extractor works on counter current, moving bed principal with variable bed height and variable speed mechanism permitting excellent penetration and percolation of solvent for absolute extraction. The low speed of extractor conveyor ensures almost no maintenance. Distillation takes place under vacuum and desolventising of meal is done in liberally designed desolventiser Toaster. For solvent recovery adequate capacity condensors and vent air stripping system is provided. 

We take this opportunity to introduce TROIKA an ISO 9001 company, established in the year 1971. TROIKA specialises in technology and equipment for vegetable oil industry. During its operation of more than 35 years TROIKA has been associated with more than 270 projects spread over 28 countries. TROIKA offers technology for Solvent Extraction, Vegetable Oil Refining, Animal Feed and processes connected with vegetable oil industry. The details about number of installations, processes offered, countries were equipment supplied by TROIKA are operating and the type of raw material being processed in TROIKA plants can be seen in the attachments. More details are available on the website: www. Troikaindia.com TROIKA offers assistance right from the preliminary stage to assess techno-economic viability, project site selection, layout preparation, equipment supply and assistance for installation, start-up and training. TROIKA offers custom built equipment and design to process all kinds of vegetable oilseeds and vegetable oil. On hearing of your specific interest we can submit to you required information and details.

Oil milling is an art. Care has to be taken while expelling the oil to ensure maximum oil recovery with minimum power consumption; cake should not be burnt protein should not be damaged, color fixation of oil should not take place, minimum heat should be generated while expelling; moisture should not find its way with oil, filtration should be in such a manner that no cake particles remain in contact with oil, thus FFA of oil should not increase. Seeds should be cooked properly and conveying should be provided to make- operation totally mechanical. TROIKA design takes care of all these aspects, added is the decades of experience. Well-designed plant layouts, trouble free maintenance, ease of operation, low utility consumption makes TROIKA oil mill a viable proposition. Oil milling can be only prepressing in which case seeds are lightly pressed, and which leaves about 14% to 18% oil in the pressed cake. This method results in higher capacity; lower power consumption, lower wear & tear / maintenance. But it also lowers recovery of oil, it is recommended when the buyer has his own solvent extraction line, so that balance oil is recovered during solvent extraction process.  In the second method, when pressed cake is to be sold in the market, it is desirable to recover the maximum oil. Hence double pressing system is recommended. Here either in the same screw press -two stage pressing is carried out or prepressed cake from first stage screw press in sent for re -second pressing to other screw press. The oil left over after double pressing varies from 7% to 9% depending on the oil seed and extent of pressing. Any oil-bearing seeds can be processed in oil mill, specially preparatory equipment are recommended prior to expelling. For Cotton Seed, Sunflower Seed, Groundnut Seed. Decorticators Are Recommended, for copra shredders and for Palm kernel hammer mills are required as preparatory equipment.

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Oil milling is an art. Care has to be taken white expelling the oil to ensure maximum oil recovery with minimum power consumption; cake should not be burnt protein should not be damaged, color fixation of oil should not take place. minimum heat should be generated white expelling; moisture should not find its way with oil, nitration should be in such a manner that no cake particles remain in contact with oil, thus FFA of oil should not increase. Seeds should be cooked properly and conveying should be provided to make-operation totally mechanical- Our design takes care of all this aspects. added is the decades of experience. Well-designed plant layouts, trouble free maintenance, ease of operation, low utility consumption makes Our oil mill a viable proposition.

Refining of vegetable oils is essential to ensure removal of Gums, Waxes, Phosphatides and Free Fatty Acids (F.F.A.) from the oils.  For capacities higher than 30T/24hours Continuous Refining Process is recommended against Batch Refining. Continuous Refining will comprise of following steps:-Pretreatment / Degumming Section:- Here the oils are given acidic treatment where by gums are precipitated and separated out by centrifugal separation or some times only gum conditioning is carried out (when gum content is low) and gums are separated in subsequent neutralising process. Neutralising Section:-The pretreated oil is subjected to Alkali Refining. The caustic soda reacts with Free Fatty Acids (F.F.A.) present in the oil and forms soap stock, the soap stock is separated out by centrifugal separator, oil is washed with water for complete removal of soap stock. The wash water is separated out by centrifugal separators.  

Refining of vegetable oils is essential to ensure removal of gums, waxes, phosphatides and free fatty acid (F. F.A.) from the oil; to impart uniform colour by removal of colouring pigments and to get rid of unpleasant smell from the oil by removal of odiferous matter.\   Refining is carried out either on batch operation or as continuous operation. With certain oils even physical refining can be carried out instead of chemical. For processing less than thirty tones of oil per 24 hours, and when oil has F.F .A. content of 1 % or less normally batch process is recommended. Batch process involves low capital investment, simplicity of operation and low maintenance, making refining economically a viable proposition even at capacity as low as 10 tonnes per 24 hours.  The equipment involved are Neutralizer, Bleacher, Deodorizer, Heat Exchanger, High & low vacuum equipment & Filters. Troika plant with batch process have been operating at number of places, processing varity of vegetable oils. If you are looking out for a refining line batch or continuous, physical or chemical for conventional or nor conventional vegetable oil -Get in touch with Troika -The Technocrats to Oils & Fats Industry, In the service since 1971.