Cottonseed oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of the cotton plant after the cotton lint has been removed. It’s composed of linters (10%), cotton shell (40~45%) and kernel. the oil content of cotton seed is 15%-25%, the oil content of kernel is 30%-40% after decorticating.
What is grafax cotton Zambia Ltd?
Grafax Cotton Introduction & Business Model. Grafax Cotton Zambia Ltd will operate an integrated cotton production and processing model which embraces contract farming of cotton, purchasing of seed cotton, processing of seed cotton into lint and processing of the cotton seed into oil, cotton cake and soap products.
What is cotton lint ginning & oil refinery?
The company has a state of the art ginning and oil refinery plant in Chisamba District, Zambia, with an expected productive life of up to twenty years. At ginning stage, the cotton-seed is separated from cotton lint. The lint is then baled for both the local and export market.
How to remove oil impurities from production plant?
In this section we use Magnetic Separator, Vibrating Sieve, de-stoner, decorticator (Cotton seeds used hammering decorticator). Through cleaning the impurity, you can reduce the lost of oil & improve the oil yield and the environment of production plant. The material has been produced after pretreatment contains the impurities ≤ 0.1%.
How to squeeze out oil from cotton seeds?
Cracking: Adopting the toothed cracking roller to make the cotton seeds kernel into a right uniform pcs which can keep a moderate block size for squeezing out the oil.