How to set up a small scale cooking oil refinery in India?

India is the world's largest importer of cooking oil and the second largest consumer of cooking oil. About 56% of its cooking oil consumption needs to be met through imports.

After the new crown epidemic, the global cooking oil price has soared. According to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in 2021 alone, the prices of various vegetable oils, including palm oil, soybean oil, sunflower oil, etc., will rise from 2020 levels. an increase of 65.8%. Faced with rising cooking oil prices, there are more and more domestic edible oil processing plants in India. Many people are learning about the oil industry for the first time. If they want to sell oil in supermarkets or markets, they must meet the cooking oil specification. Refining equipment is essential.

Cooking oil in Indian supermarket or market

So how to build a small scale cooking oil refinery in India? The first thing to do is to determine what oil the raw material is. Different types of crude cooking oil require different refining machine and processing techniques. The second is the need to confirm the processing capacity. The size of the processing capacity determines which type of cooking oil refining machine you need to choose. Finally, you need to choose a reliable manufacturer of cooking oil refining machine to buy high-quality cooking oil refining machine. Next, about the points to note about building a small scale cooking oil refinery in India, Henan Glory will give you a detailed introduction and provide you with a selection plan for cooking oil refining machine.

How to build a small scale cooking oil refinery in India?

1. Determine the raw materials

According to different processing techniques, cooking oil refining can be divided into physical refining and chemical refining. Physical refining is suitable for crude palm oil, crude palm kernel oil, coconut oil, etc. For refined palm oil, with corresponding fractionation equipment, palm soft fat and palm stearin can also be obtained. Chemical refining is more general and suitable for all kinds of crude cooking oils. If your raw materials are rice bran oil, corn oil, sunflower oil, linseed oil, Henan Glory recommends that you configure dewaxing equipment to improve the taste and transparency of the cooking oil.(Recommend reading: Sunflower oil refinery plant)

Cooking oil physical refining and chemical refining

2. Determine the processing capacity

The processing capacity of 1-20tpd is suitable for batch type refining machine. 20-50tpd, optional semi-continuous type refining machine. More than 50tpd need to use full continuous type refining machine.

Different type cooking oil refining machine

Taking batch type refining as an example, the main process flow is degumming - deacidification - decolorization - deodorization. The equipment included are alkali melting pot, decolorizing pot, deodorizing pot, leaf filter, heat conduction oil furnace, etc. Batch refining is supplemented by heat-conducting oil furnaces to reduce electricity consumption, but electric facilities still need to be prepared. For example, the power of a 10tpd batch type refining line is about 70kw, and the workshop area is 20*15*8 meters. The factory should preferably be close to the water source, and it is convenient to obtain water. When building an oil refinery, the heat-conducting oil furnace system and the refining equipment should be placed separately, because the heat-conducting oil furnace system will generate an open flame, which is not conducive to production safety.

3. Determine the manufacturer of cooking oil refining machine

Henan Glory Company is a professional manufacturer and exporter of cooking oil refining machine. We can not only customize cooking oil refining machine of suitable size according to customers' requirements, but also provide complete after-sales services, such as one-year equipment warranty, supervision services for equipment installation, commissioning and worker training, as well as lifetime technical services. Henan Glory is looking forward to cooperating with you.(Recommend reading: How to choose the right cooking oil refining machine manufacturer?)

Complete after-sales services of Henan Glory Company

The above is an introduction on how to set up a small scale cooking oil refinery in India, hoping to provide you with a reference. If you would like to know more about cooking oil refining machine, please contact us.