granex summary
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Granexport Manufacturing Corporation is a coconut oil mill located in Kiwalan, Iligan City. Their raw material is the coconut meat commonly known as “copra” which has 64% oil content.
PROCESSES
OIL MILLING
SOLVENT EXTRACTION
REFINING
DEODORIZING
ACIDULATION
PELLETIZING
SHORTENING
SUPPORT FACILITIES
Copra Warehouse
Pellet Warehouse
CNO Tanks (Crude Coconut Oil Tanks)
Processed Oil Tanks
Edible Oil Tanks
Acidulated Oil Tanks
Copra Loading and Unloading Facility
Pier Wharf
Vessels
PRODUCTS
Refined Bleached Oil
Refined Bleached Deodorized Oil
Acidulated Oil
Vegetable Shortening (Minola Oil)
Crude Coconut Oil (CNO)
Solvent Extraction Pellet
Charcoal
Magnets are installed in conveyors to remove metals from the unloaded copra
Size reduction
Hogs – primary grinders
Cracking rolls – secondary grinders
Conditioner - drying
Flakers – 6 mesh size
Expellers – mechanical pressing to extract oil
- 15-18 % residual oil in cake
Filtration
Refining
Copra cake from expellers undergoes continuous washing with hexane to remove oil.
Desolventizing/Toasting to remove hexane
Pelletizing
Stored….
Quality Control
Oil Content
- Soxhlet extraction apparatus Petroleum ether hexane
Moisture Content
-oven method
- brown duvell
- NIR Spectrometer
- Moisture Balance Analyzer
Residual Oil Content
FFA (Free Fatty Acid Analysis) (0.03)
Oil Color
Boiler Water Analysis
pH, TDS, Total Hardness, P-alkaline, M-alkaline, OH, SO3, Silica, PO4