Technical Equipment

Procurement plan for the Palm oil plant equipment: 

  1. Cooker with cages   - Self-manufactured in Gbarnga
  2. Digester / Thresher - Self-manufactured in Gbarnga
  3. Oil Press, 2 x - Germany (to be shipped with canisters, bottles etc.)
  4. Vibration screen / cyclone - Germany
  5. Tricanter, complete system - Germany
  6. Stainless steel tanks, approved for foodstuffs  - Germany
  7. Pipes, fittings, stainless steel buckets, other small items - Germany
  8. Crane - Self manufactures in Gbarnga

The technical heart of our production

While we use for employment reasons the maximum number of workers for threshing, cooking, sterilization and palm fruit pressing, we use the Three Phase Centrifugal Technology for the sensitive production phase, which is responsible for consistent quality of the oil.
The Crude Palm Oil (CPO) coming from the screw press through the vibration screen and is collected in the crude oil tank equipped with a heating device and with a slowly rotating agitator. After the crude oil tank a feeder pump transfers the oil directly to the Three Phase Decanter by passing a de-sanding cyclone. 
It is a three phase separation, i.e. the simultaneous separation of two immiscible liquids with different densities and one solid phase, provided that the solid phase is the heaviest phase. It discharges the heavy liquid (water) and the light liquid phase (oil) by gravity. This optimizes the purity of the oil and eliminates further downstream equipment.  This high quality und pure oil is ready for filling, packing and sale and meets the international standards. The benefits of this state of the art technology in short:

  • Clean oil- no need of clarification stage
  • Short processing time
  • Minimum heat loss
  • Virtually no alteration of the oil (low FFA)
  • Minimum dilution water demand
  • Minimum waste water stream
  • Maximum flexibility (variable impeller)

 


Advantages of The Flottweg Tricanter® in Palm Oil Refining

The Flottweg Tricanter® offers you decisive additional benefits in palm oil extraction:

  • Pure oil - no additional refining stage required
  • Short process times
  • Minimum heat losses
  • Scarcely any free fatty acids are created
  • Minimum consumption of dilution water
  • Minimum wastewater is produced  
  • Maximum process flexibility