What to Do to Extract Oil from Seeds?

The first step in obtaining oil for your Bio-diesel is to remove the seed-coat and husk in a process known as Dehulling. Manual processes, where hard objects are employed to crack the shells are popular in Africa and other developing countries. Mechanically remove the shell of the seeds by machine is also introduced.

Once the nuts are cracked, the oil-bearing seeds are cleaned and dried. The seed coat removing and the chaff separating are procedures of seed cleaning. You could dry the seeds by spreading them in the sunshine or by heating them on the fire. The seeds should be heated after drying for increasing the output. Following this, the seeds are prepared for oil extraction process.

Africans are well-known to derive body creams and cooking oil from nuts through traditional means. Among such means involves roasting palm kernel nuts in dried pans to force out the popular black palm kernel pomade. Others like to extract their body cream from boiling coconut juice to separate the oil. Whichever is the case, both of them represent sources of very beautiful aroma that are popular in modern cosmetics.

Palm oil and Groundnut oil are quite popular dietary sources in Africa. You are able to extract palm oil from fresh palm fruit or the dried ones. It is such an exciting event to behold of the process of extraction of palm oil from uncooked palm fruit.

The palm fruit are usually left to loss water and soften for a long period of time before matching solvent extraction. Large quantity of Palm oil which is usually fresh with specialized characteristic aroma always adopt this process.