Design and Construction of a physical Soybean oil Refinery on a small scale

Abstract

Soybean oil is the common name for the oil obtained from the beans of the plant, (Glycerine max (L) Merr, ranked as the number one most edible oil in the world, which is 85% unsaturated. This project was designed and constructed to help soybean oil refinery to improve on the quality of the oil through physical refining at a low cost and environmentally friendly adoption. The design of the machine involves the processing stage of degumming, bleaching, and deodorization, which are critical points in refining. Experimental conducts are carried out to investigate and analyse the physio chemical properties of the crude and purified oil. The performance of the prototype machine was tested 78.6% efficiency and purifying factor pf 0.612 and deductions using Anova showed that there was a significant change between the treatments of both the purified and crude soybean oil.