Considerations on Energy Saving in Vegetable Oil Refining

✍ Scribed by Athanassiadis, A.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1980
• Weight: 524 KB
• Volume: 82
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-5985
• DOI: 10.1002/lipi.19800820603

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The vital importance presently gained by energy consumption in the processing cost of refined oils need not be emphasized. Saving energy, or even using it under its least expensive form, should now be a major concern for every oilmiller. This is why recovery of excess heat, dissipated until now, as well as reduction of consumptions – especially steam consumption for the refining process – have become prime targets in design of the equipment used. In the present survey, we develop certain energy saving techniques which we have been practising for several years, but also some other, recently experimented procedures. These measures have enabled us to reduce by half the steam and fuel consumption in an existing refining plant composed of equipment generally designated as “classical” up to the present date.