Soybean Oil Processing Solutions

Ocean offers turnkey solutions which covers all of the main processes of soybean oil production line

Soybean Oil Pretreatment & Pressing Process
Soybean Oil Solvent Extraction Process
Soybean Oil Refining Process

Solution Features

Soybean oil is rich in phospholipids and other colloidal substances. Soybean phospholipids are natural emulsifiers with high nutritional value. They contain abundant components such as lecithin, cephalin, inositol phospholipids, and serine phospholipids. The fatty acids in these phospholipids consist of 60% unsaturated fatty acids and are also rich in vitamins and trace elements. Besides providing essential nutrients to the human body, soybean phospholipids have unique physiological activities that play an important regulatory role in the biological activity of cell membranes and normal metabolism. Therefore, adding a degumming process to the main steps can yield a byproduct Lecithin gum of degummed oil.

Soybean Lecithin gum is the byproduct obtained from the centrifugal separation step in the degumming process, with soybean phospholipids as its main component. Ocean processes soybean Lecithin gum according to its characteristics to produce food-grade soybean phospholipids and feed-grade soybean phospholipids, greatly enhancing the added value of this byproduct.

Degumming Process

Soybean crude oil

Heater

Acid mixing

Acidification reaction

Water mixing

Soybean degummed oil

De-solvation

Heater

Centrifugal separation

Hydration reaction

The deodorization and deacidification process involves collecting the effluent in two stages: the lower layer collects high-VE (vitamin E) fatty acid effluent, while the upper layer collects low-VE fatty acid effluent. This allows us to concentrate the high-VE fatty acid effluent to over 17%, significantly increasing the added value of the byproduct.

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