Palm Oil Mill

Palm Oil Mill

Product Code : TP-01
Product Specification
PALM OIL MILL MANUFACTURER AND EXPORTER

PALM FRUIT STRIPPER : Palm oil mills receive the palm fruits in the form of palm fruit
bunches of 10 to 30 kg. weight. So first operation is to separate the palm fruits from the
palm bunches. Separation of palm fruits by hand is very big drugery. But TINYTECH palm
fruit stripper separates palm fruits from the bunches by easy mechanical process. Stripping
operation is done by the beaters welded on all the four sides of revolving heavy square
shaft of the stripper. When bunch is thrown on the revolving beater shaft, due to the action
of beater, entire bunch is thrown up and is allowed to fall again and again on the revolving
beaters. Thus palm fruits are separated and fall down through the screen which are
collected by the bottom conveyor and is taken out from the outlet. Empty bunches are
automatically pushed on the other end of the palm fruit stripper machine. TINYTECH
stripper is capable of stripping off sterilised fruits as well as non sterilised fruits effectively.
Stripping capacity is 2 to 3 tonnes per hour. So one stripper can provide separated palm
fruits to two palm oil expellers.

NUT FIBRE SEPARATOR :

The mixture of the palm nuts and fibres is obtained as by product of the palm fruit expeller.
It is essential to separate palm nuts from the fibres. It is done in the hand operated
machine called nut fibre separator. It is inclined cylindrical type revolving machine heaving
all around suitable size screen from which fibres can escape but palm nuts can not escape.
So while travelling the mixture from upper end to lower end of the machine, all the fibres
escape from the cylindrical screen while palm nuts are collected from the lower end of the
nut fibre separator. Fibres are used in the boiler as fuel. Palm nuts are sold out to the palm
kernel mills where they crack the palm nuts, get the palm kernels, crush the palm kernels
and get the palm kernel oil.

OIL CLARIFIER :

Palm oil which we get from palm oil expeller is in fact in the slurry form having a lot of solid
particles of sludge which is very difficult to separate from the oil. Many scientific methods
have been used by the scientists. But the easiest way to separate the sludge from the oil is
by adding a lot of water in the oil. As water is heavier and oil is lighter, oil comes upward on
the top and thus clear oil is drained. For this purpose, equipment of two simple cylindrical
vessels, one inside the another, has been devised. Crude oil is filled up in the bigger
cylinder and smaller cylinder inside the bigger cylinder remains empty. After some hours,
the oil comes upwards on the top. When further crude oil is added through the funnel which
extends near to bottom, level of oil increases. So the clarified oil on the top falls into a
smaller (i.e. inner) cylinder from the upper edges of the smaller cylinder which is of smaller
height than outer cylinder. Then clarified oil collected into the smaller cylinder is taken out
from the bottom. This oil is heated to remove the moisture and you get crude palm oil
(CPO).

PALM OIL EXPELLER AND COOKING KETTLE :

Loose palm fruits are fed to the cooking kettle. Palm fruits are cooked properly in the
cooking kettle by means of steam which comes from boiler. Cooking kettle has jacketed
bottom which is heated by the steam in the jacket. So palm fruits are properly heated.
Moreover, some direct steam is added into the kettle which gets mixed with the palm fruits.
So palm fruits are properly cooked in such a way that all cells of the palm fruits become
ready to liberate the oil. Thus separate sterlisation process is not necessary in TINYTECH
technology. In fact, sterlization process is done in the cooking kettle. Properly cooked palm
fruits go to the crushing chamber cage of the palm expeller just below the cooking kettle.
Cooking kettle is mounted on the palm oil expeller itself and is driven from the expeller
shaft.

Worm shaft of the oil expeller pushes cooked palm fruits with the force into the crushing
chamber which is a cage with thin long gaps all around the cage. Oil is liberated
immediately due to crushing action and oil flows through the thin gaps and falls down into
the bottom tank. Mixture of palm nuts and fibres is ejected from the side. Expeller runs on
7.5 HP electric motor through the reduction gear arrangement. It has capacity of crushing of
400 kg. loose palm fruits per hour.

FILTER PRESS :

If required, this crude palm oil can be filtered in TINYTECH oil filter press for better quality
of CPO. For this purpose, oil pump is connected as integral part of the oil expeller with non
return valves on both the sides. This oil pump sucks the oil from the oil tank and pushes to
the filter press with heavy force. So oil is filtered in the filter press and you can get very
clean filtered palm oil.

MECHANICAL SCREW PRESS :

Such pounded palm fruits are filled up into the perforated cylindrical cage which is put under
the mechanical screw press which is operated by hand. By pressing the screw down,
pressing plate under the screw goes down into the perforated cylinder cage by pressing the
entire mass of palm fruits. Due to the pressure, palm oil is liberated through the small
holes around the cylindrical surface. Oil is then collected into the utensils through the
bottom tray. Two cylindrical perforated cages are provided with every press so that when
one is under pressure, second cage is being filled up. Each cage can take about 40 to 50 kg
of palm fruits per batch. About 25 to 30% palm oil is extracted. This palm oil is traditionally
used as cooking oil.






















PALM OIL MILL
TINY PALM OIL MILL
Palm Oil Expeller V/s Mechanical Screw
Press
We have observed in Ghana that quality of oil through mechanical press is far better
than oil from expeller. In mechanical press, only static pressure is given without any
crushing and without any movement of material. So clean oil is recovered. While in
expeller, a lot of rubbing and crushing movement takes place and hence a lot of
sludge is created and it gets mixed with oil which becomes headache to separate. So
entire clarification process is developed for mass production which is again water
polluting process as 150% water is added in clarification process rendering entire
water quantity polluted. In mechanical screw press, you can avoid clarification
altogether. Expeller technology is simply for mass production which is mainly used
for huge palm oil mills. For small scale production, mechanical screw press gives
better results. But it is manual process. We should come out of the craze of
automation. In fact our cooking kettle works very fine for sterilizing also. It
consumes less power also.
Process in brief is as under :-
1. Palm fruits bunches is fed to stripper machine where palm fruits will be
separated out and will be collected at bottom conveyor. Empties will come out
at the opposite end which is excellent fuel for boiler.
2. This palm fruits will be cooked in steam cooking cum sterilizing kettle.
3. From kettle, it will be fed to Mechanical screw press where oil will be squeezed
and you can get very clear red palm oil.
4. Oil thus produced will be filtered through a pump and thus you get very clear
palm oil from filter press.
5. From mechanical screw press, you get mixture of nut and fiber which is to be
dried under sun.
6. Then nuts and fibers can be separated out in nut fiber separator.Again fibers
will be excellent fuel.
7. One steam engine of 30 hp will drive complete plant by belts, pulleys and
counter shaft and also alternator 10KVA for electricity for any type of use for
lighting, water pumping or selling to neighbours.
8. We have not offered expeller which produces mixture of sludge + oil and
afterwards separation is a big headache. In big palm oil mills, separation is
done by adding 150% water, but it is too much polluting process. One of our
customer from Ghana (West Africa) informed us that he is very happy with
mechanical screw press and he does not use expeller anymore. So based on
his practical experience, we strongly suggest that above is a perfect offer to
you.


PRODUCE YOUR OWN POWER FROM PALM WASTE
& SELL IT
Highly suitable for rural electrification by green power
Tiny palm oil mill with sterilizing cum cooking kettles and mechanical screw press
powered by steam is ideal combination. As a lot of fuel is generated in the process it
self - about 23% empty palm bunches, 15% fibres and 6% palm nut shells, totally
44% fuel. If you process 10 tonnes a day, palm waste is generated up to 4.4 tonnes
which is very much valuable fuel. If you use steam power, you will hardly consume
40kg fuel per hour. So at the most 1000kg in 24 hours. Thus you will have large
surplus fuel almost 3.4 tonnes for generating extra power for rural electrification. If
you want to run power house of 30hp engine, 20KVA alternator and boiler, it will
consume one tonne palm waste in 24 hours. So you can run 3 such power houses
round the clock from surplus fuel generated from your tiny palm oil mill. One such
power house can give lights to 300 families for 6 hours at night and you can use
power house for running industry such as maize milling, rice milling, water
pumping etc for 18 hours. This much power production will be from free of cost
fuel. So tiny palm oil mill is really blessing to the people.
V K DESAI
Email : tinytech@tinytechindia.com
Web : www.tinytechindia.com


PALM FRUIT
STRIPPER :


Palm oil mills receive the palm fruits in
the form of palm fruit bunches of 10 to
30 kg. weight. So first operation is to
separate the palm fruits from the palm
bunches. Separation of palm fruits by
hand is very big drugery. But TINYTECH
palm fruit stripper separates palm fruits
from the bunches by easy mechanical
process. Stripping operation is done by
the beaters welded on all the four sides
of revolving heavy square shaft of the
stripper. When bunch is thrown on the
revolving beater shaft, due to the action
of beater, entire bunch is thrown up and
is allowed to fall again and again on the
revolving beaters. Thus palm fruits are
separated and fall down through the
screen which are collected by the
bottom conveyor and is taken out from
the outlet. Empty bunches are
automatically pushed on the other end
of the palm fruit stripper machine.
TINYTECH stripper is capable of
stripping off sterilised fruits as well as
non sterilised fruits effectively.
Stripping capacity is 2 to 3 tonnes per
hour. So one stripper can provide
separated palm fruits to two palm oil
expellers.
PALM OIL EXPELLER AND COOKING
KETTLE :

Loose palm fruits are fed to the cooking
kettle. Palm fruits are cooked properly
in the cooking kettle by means of steam.
Steam comes from boiler. Cooking
kettle has jacketed bottom which is
heated by the steam in the jacket. So
palm fruits are properly heated.
Moreover, some direct steam is added
into the kettle which gets mixed with the
palm fruits. So palm fruits are properly
cooked & sterilised in such a way that
all cells of the palm fruits become ready
to liberate the oil. Thus separate
sterlisation process is not necessary in
TINYTECH technology. In fact,
sterlization process is done in the
cooking kettle. Properly cooked palm
fruits go to the crushing chamber cage
of the palm expeller just below the
cooking kettle. Cooking kettle is
mounted on the palm oil expeller itself
and is driven from the expeller shaft.
Now a days
Worm shaft of the oil expeller pushes
cooked palm fruits with the force into
the crushing chamber which is a cage
with thin long gaps all around the cage.
Oil is liberated immediately due to
crushing action and oil flows through
the thin gaps and falls down into the
bottom tank. Mixture of palm nuts and
fibres is ejected from the side. Expeller
runs on 7.5 HP electric motor through
the reduction gear arrangement. It has
capacity of crushing of 400 kg. loose
palm fruits per hour.
(THIS IS NOT NECESSARY NOW)
NUT FIBRE
SEPARATOR :

The mixture of the palm nuts and fibres
is obtained as by product of the palm
fruit expeller. It is essential to separate
palm nuts from the fibres. It is done in
the hand operated machine called nut
fibre separator. It is inclined cylindrical
type revolving machine heaving all
around suitable size screen from which
fibres can escape but palm nuts can
not escape. So while travelling the
mixture from upper end to lower end of
the machine, all the fibres escape from
the cylindrical screen while palm nuts
are collected from the lower end of the
nut fibre separator. Fibres are used in
the boiler as fuel. Palm nuts are sold
out to the palm kernel mills where they
crack the palm nuts, get the palm
kernels, crush the palm kernels and get
the palm kernel oil.
OIL CLARIFIER
:
Palm oil which we get from palm oil expeller is in fact in the slurry form having a lot of solid
particles of sludge which is very difficult to separate from the oil. Many scientific methods
have been used by the scientists. But the easiest way to separate the sludge from the oil is
by adding a lot of water in the oil. As water is heavier and oil is lighter, oil comes upward
on the top and thus clear oil is drained. For this purpose, equipment of two simple
cylindrical vessels, one inside the another, has been devised. Crude oil is filled up in the
bigger cylinder and smaller cylinder inside the bigger cylinder remains empty. After some
hours, the oil comes upwards on the top. When further crude oil is added through the
funnel which extends near to bottom, level of oil increases. So the clarified oil on the top
falls into a smaller (i.e. inner) cylinder from the upper edges of the smaller cylinder which is
of smaller height than outer cylinder. Then clarified oil collected into the smaller cylinder is
taken out from the bottom. This oil is heated to remove the moisture and you get crude
palm oil (CPO).
(THIS IS NOT NECESSARY NOW)
FILTER PRESS
:
If required, this crude palm oil can be filtered in TINYTECH oil filter press for better quality
of CPO. For this purpose, oil pump is connected as integral part of the oil expeller with non
return valves on both the sides. This oil pump sucks the oil from the oil tank and pushes to
the filter press with heavy force. So oil is filtered in the filter press and you can get very
clean filtered palm oil.



People in Africa, traditionally extract palm oil with simple hand opeated oil
press. They separate the palm fruits by hand from the bunches and they
carry to the traditional palm oil mill. Palm fruits are traditionally heated with
water and sterilized into the asphalt drums by firing under the asphalt drum.
POUNDING
MACHINE :

The sterlized palm fruits are fed to the
hopper at one end of the pounding
machine in which there are many beaters
welded on the square shaft of the
machine. Beater shaft is revolved through
the pulleys and V belts by 5 HP electric
motor or 6 HP diesel engine. So due to
beating action, palm fruits are crushed
into somewhat homogeneous mass of
palm nuts and fibres containing palm oil.
This mass is discharged from the bottom
outlet of the other end of the machine.
Pounding machine is also called palm
fruits digester.
(THIS IS NOT NECESSARY NOW)

MECHANICAL SCREW
PRESS :

Such pounded palm fruits are filled up into
the perforated cylindrical cage which is put
under the mechanical screw press which is
operated by hand. By pressing the screw
down, pressing plate under the screw goes
down into the perforated cylinder cage by
pressing the entire mass of palm fruits. Due to
the pressure, palm oil is liberated through the
small holes around the cylindrical surface. Oil
is then collected into the utensils through the
bottom tray. Two cylindrical perforated cages
are provided with every press so that when
one is under pressure, second cage is being
filled up. Each cage can take about 40 to 50 kg
of palm fruits per batch. About 25 to 30% palm
oil is extracted. This palm oil is traditionally
used as cooking oil.


ANIMAL FEED PELLET
Posted Date : 06,Jun 13

Palm kernel expeller used as animal feed for dairy cattle because of its high protein content.
Palm kernel expeller is left over after kernel oil is pressed from the nut in the palm fruit. Palm kernel expeller used as animal
feed for dairy cattle because of its high protein content.
Test Report:
Crude Protein-13.8%
Crude Fiber-12.8%
Moisture-7.5%
Fat Contain-6.98%
Ash Contain-5.37%