Edible oil dewaxing systems
Optimize your edible oil clarity and stability with dewaxing systems that effectively remove waxes and impurities, ensuring consistent quality and transparency in your final product.
The dewaxing systems from Alfa Laval are designed to enhance edible oil quality by effectively removing waxes and impurities. These systems integrate into your production line through a combination of wet and dry dewaxing processes, ensuring clarity and stability in oils such as sunflower, corn, cottonseed, and palm oil. With features like cold enzymatic degumming and multi-wax systems, these solutions optimize processing capacity and throughput. The systems are PLC-supervised and allow full automation, improving operational efficiency. They support various materials for corrosion resistance, ensuring durability and compliance with industry standards. Additionally, Alfa Laval offers extensive customization options and global engineering support to meet specific plant requirements.
Benefits
- Enhances oil clarity and stability, ensuring premium end-product quality.
- Reduces processing costs by recovering more oil from feedstock.
- Simplifies operations with full automation and remote PLC monitoring.
- Minimizes wax and impurity content, meeting cold stability requirements.
- Offers customization for specific process needs, increasing operational flexibility.
- Applications
- Palm oil,Sunflower oil,Cottonseed oil,Edible oils,Seed oils,Margarine,Corn oil
- End products
- Cold-pressed seed oils,Spreadable margarine,Transparent corn oil,Refined sunflower oil,Clear cottonseed oil,Fractionated palm oil
- Steps before
- Enzymatic degumming,Neutralization,Bleaching
- Steps after
- Cold test,Oil washing,Wax removal,Pressure leaf filtration,Packaging
- Input ingredients
- crude sunflower oil,crude corn oil,crude cottonseed oil,oils with high wax content,phosphatides,filter aid powder
- Output ingredients
- refined edible oil,transparent oil,stable oil,oil with reduced wax content
- Automation
- PLC-controlled
- Cooling medium
- Chilled air
- Cooling temperature
- Low temperatures for wax crystallization
- Filtration type
- Pressure leaf filters
- Feedstock wax content
- Up to 2000 ppm for wet dewaxing,up to 900 ppm for dry dewaxing
- Process combination
- Wet and dry dewaxing
- Separator type
- Inline centrifugal separators
- Filter aid dosage
- Up to 10 times the amount of wax
- Oil recovery
- Increased through dewaxing processes
- Yield optimization
- Maximum yield with minimal losses
- Cold test
- 24-hour and 72-hour cold test
- Working mechanism
- Cold enzymatic degumming,Cold chemical refining
- Integrated steps
- Wax crystallization,Separator oil washing
- Automation level
- Full automation with PLC control
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Inline Continuous
- CIP/SIP
- CIP with PLC-supervised filter operation
- Changeover time
- Minimal due to automated filters
- Cleaning method
- Automated pressure leaf filters
- Energy efficiency
- Optimized via wax retrieval process
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- ISO certification
- ISO 9001/ISO 22000
- Machine footprint
- Compact
- Control panel type
- Automated with PLC
- Discharge method
- Automated via separators
- Cooling system
- Inline cooling
- Footprint design
- Designed for minimal space usage
- Control panel type
- PLC Supervised
- Automation level
- Full automation and control
- Market info
- Alfa Laval is renowned for its expertise in heat transfer, separation, and fluid handling technologies, providing innovative, energy-efficient engineered-to-order solutions for various industries including food, marine, and energy.