Food Processing Equipment and Plant Design

Oil extraction machines
• Oil can be produced from coconut, sesame, sunflower seed, rice, canola, camelina,
soybeans, sugar cane, wood and rape seed
• Several extraction process evolved over time & the main two of them are mechanical &
chemical extraction
• Oil expeller is a device which can produce pressure by rotating feed to expeller screw
manually or automatically
• Screw press method for oil extraction is a mechanical method for extracting oil from raw
materials