Solvent Extraction Plant

The purpose of solvent extraction is to remove most of the oil contained in a seed. Extraction is conducted on prepared seeds or, generally in the case of high oil content seeds, the cakes obtained by the pre-pressing. Solvent Extraction consists of a sequence of five operations, i.e. :

• Preparation of Seeds for Extraction which includes pre pressing for high oil content seeds.
• Extraction of oil from the prepared material with the aid of food grade solvent.
• Desolventising-toasting of the de-oiled seed /meal- often combined with drying and cooling of the said meal.
• Distillation, to remove the solvent from the extracted oil.
• Recovery of solvent, which is reused again and again at extractor level.

Veendeep supplies the most advance,high performance Solvent Extraction plants which are able to process seeds like soyabeans,sunflower,cotton seeds,rapeseeds and floury material like rice bran.