Small Scale Palm Oil Mill Plant

Set up a small palm oil milling line with capacity ranging from 1 ton/day to 20 ton/day

Small scale palm oil mill plant generally refers to the palm oil processing production with the capacity below 20 ton per day. We have two small palm fruit processing solutions for your! One is mini palm oil mill plant for 1~10 ton/day factory, and the other one is 10~20 ton/day palm oil milling plant for small and medium-sized factory.

The main equipment for small palm oil mill is palm fruits cooking and sterilizing tank, FFB Stripper and screw palm oil press machine. Click the link to see more details of the related palm processing machines.

Small Scale Crude Palm Oil Milling Process

The main processing flow includes Palm Fruits, Threshing, Digesting, Pressing and Filtering. The basic processing section is shown as below:

Oil pressing plant from palm fruit basically includes: fruit threshing, sterilizing / digesting, oil pressing and filtering. Among all these processing sections, oil pressing and filtering must be done by professional facilities (palm oil extractor and oil filter press), while the other sections can be selected depending on your needs and financial status. It is certainly that a complete palm oil mill has higher automatic degree and needs fewer labor. Only 2~3 worker is needed to run the whole line. Besides, it can also avoid the unstable material feeding caused by manual control.

If you are planning to invest in a mini palm oil factory and have limited budget, some machines that can be replaced by manual work is ok to be removed to save equipment cost. For detailed project solution, you are welcome to contact us and tell us your needs. Our professional team will help you make the best project plan and also offer the best price.

Features of Our Small Palm Oil Mill Plant
1.Save manpower.
2.Less investment but with full extraction function.
3.Easy to install and operate.

Process Design of Small Palm Oil Factory

If you are planning to run a small palm oil making factory, here is the factory layout design for your reference:

What output of palm oil mill do I need?

For most first-time palm oil mill businessmen, they have no idea about yield. So here we offer a way to caculate the production output you might need for your business plan. Palm oil is made from palm fruit or palm kernel. But whatever you want to make, the following calculation methods are all applicable.

There are about 140 palm trees planted per hectare land, and about 20 tons fresh fruits can be produced per tree per year.
In most cases, 12.5% of orchard output are defined as the maximum palm fruit consumption each month.
The producing time should be caculated according to 25 days each month and 20 hours one day.
Example: With 2000 hectares plantation, the production output of palm oil mill you need to build is:
2000 x 20 x 12.5% / 25 / 20 = 10 ton/hour

  • What is the process of palm oil milling?
    The process of palm oil extraction is very different from the processing of other seeds. Gnerally, palm oil mill includes 6 processes: fruits reciving, cooking/sterilizing, threshing, digesting, oil pressing, crude oil clarification, refining and fractionation, and pal kernel recovery.

  • What machines are used to make palm oil?

  • The main machines used in palm oil mill are sterilization tank, thresher, palm oil press machine, vibrating screen, clarifying tank, and plate filter.
  • What is FFA in palm oil?
  • Palm oil quality and price is dependent on the free fatty acids (FFA) content in palm oil. High content of free fatty acids in palm oil affect the quality of palm oil and leads to various health and environmental issues.
  • How much to start a palm oil business?
  • To set up a small scale palm oil mill in Nigeria, there are two choices, simple type and 1-5tph palm oil mill. The cost of simple type for 500kg-2tph palm oil mill is about 7500 USD – 14000 USD and the cost of 1-5tph small scale palm oil mill is about 130,000USD – 390,000USD.

  • What happens at a palm oil mill?

  • The stages in this process comprise grinding the kernels into small particles, heating (cooking), and extracting the oil using an oilseed expeller or petroleum-derived solvent. The oil then requires clarification in a filter press or by sedimentation.
  • How many tons of palm oil per hectare?
  • 73,8 million metric tons of palm oil is produced in 2021/22, according to USDA. One palm tree produces 40 kilogrammes of palm oil every year, according the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). One hectare of oil palm trees produce on average 3.3 tons of oil each year, according to WWF.
  • What is the cost of production of palm oil?
  • In soybeans, cost of raw material production vary between 400 USD/t in Argentina and Brazil and 800 USD/t in the U.S. Compared to the results in palm oil, where the typical plantation exhibits cost of production of about 300 USD/t, these are rather high.
  • Is palm oil a good investment?
  • The global demand for sustainable palm oil is consistently high, ensuring a robust market for the produce. Value Appreciation: The value of oil palm estates tends to appreciate over time. With proper management and cultivation practices, the assets gain value, making them a lucrative long-term investment.
  • How much space is needed to produce 1 ton of palm oil?
  • To produce one tonne of oil, we need only 0.3 hectares of land from palm oil, 1.4 hectares from sunflower or rapeseed, 3.7 hectares from coconut, and 7 hectares from groundnut.
  • How much oil can be extracted from 1 kg of palm?
  • The only straightforward way to calculate the ratio of oil palm fruit lets to extracted oil is called “oil extraction rate”, or simply OER. So far, Ii have seen the highest OER of 25%, which means from a 1kg of palm fruits, you can get 250g of crude palm oil.
  • What is palm oil mill effluent?
  • Palm oil mill effluent is the voluminous liquid waste that comes from the sterilisation and clarification processes in milling oil palm. The raw effluent contains 90-95% water and includes residual oil, soil particles and suspended solids.
  • What are the steps in palm oil production?
  • The steps in palm oil production process is divided into sterilization, threshing, digesting, pressing, oil clarification and filtration. If you want to get RBD palm oil, there is also degumming, deacidification, decolorization, deodorization four steps refining process.
  • What is palm oil mill process?
  • The process involves: 1) Sterilizing the FFB to loosen fruit and inactivate enzymes, preconditioning the mesocarp for oil recovery. 2) Threshing to separate fruit from bunches. 3) Digesting fruit to further separate mesocarp from palm nut and break oil cells. 4) Pressing to extract oil from mesocarp.