Oils and Fats Processing

The wide variety of oils requires equally varied practice-oriented production processes and technologies. To cover this demand, GEA Westfalia Separator Process designs and manufactures customized solutions. The heart of the plant is always the centrifuge. Whether it is a self-cleaning separator with the highest degree of automation or a discontinuous system, every customer will find the best economical and technological solution for his production duty - from a separator with a daily capacity of 50 t for small mill operators up to the separator with a capacity over 1000 t per day for large refineries.

Processes for vegetable oil processing:

Press oil clarification
Degumming
Neutralisation
Alcoholic neutralisation
Washing
Dewaxing
Dry fractionation
Soapstock splitting

Processing of:

Soy oil
Linseed oil
Sunflower seed oil
Cotton seed oil
Corn seed oil
Olive oil

Applications in the oleochemical industry:

Connemann process
Epoxidised oils
Glycerine
Mono/diglycerides
Soap
Fatty acids
Fatty alcohols
Wet fractionation

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