Innovative measurement technologies ensure high production performance and plant availability
Edible oil manufacturers face the constantly growing challenges of low margins, fluctuating raw materials quality and changing consumer habits. Improving production performance and driving down operations costs calls for innovative measurement technology. Through targeted and consistent optimization of the refining process, plant operators can minimize downtime and rejects while increasing the added-value of their systems, all without sacrificing product quality.
218
million metric tons
of edible oils were produced worldwide in the crop year 2022/2023. Source: www.statista.com
How we can help
Endress+Hauser provides an excellent industry and application expertise. We offer a broad range of reliable and robust process instrumentation to produce high-quality edible oils. Our solutions support you in every step of your refining process - from degumming, neutralization, bleaching, deodorization up to dry fractionation. Sustainable process improvements help you avoid loss and optimize the performance of your production system.
Consistent product quality on highest level
Process improvements to reduce waste and loss
Real-time process data that serves as a foundation for maintenance
Applications
Edible oil refining process and instrumentation solutions
In edible oil refining unwanted components are removed from the raw oil. Every process step has its own challenges and needs specific actions and process instrumentation. The main refining process steps:
Degumming: Remove of phosphatides from vegetable oil
Neutralization: Remove free fatty acids from crude oils by using caustic soda or lime
Bleaching: Remove impurities and coloring pigments
Deodorization: Remove substances that have a negative influence on odor, taste and color
Our expertise in the field
Endress+Hauser offers a deep industry expertise and knowledge to offer you the right process instrumentation. Every refining process step requires permanent monitoring of critical parameters to ensure a continuous high product quality. A wide range of process instruments for measuring and monitoring temperature, pressure, flow, color and turbidity assure your product quality.
Discover a complete product portfolio for temperature measurement like compact thermometers, modular thermometers, thermowells, measurement inserts and transmitters.
Choose the flowmeter best suited to your process needs from our comprehensive product basket.
Rely on our pressure measurement with a wide range of sensor technologies that perfectly suited for any kind of application.
The loading, unloading and storage of raw material and edible oil requires detailed information regarding quantities and volumes. It all starts with the delivery of raw material to produce edible or vegetable oil. At the end of the production the edible oil requires an optimal inventory management.
Our expertise in the field
Our radar-based measurement instruments continually and precisely monitor the fill level in the storage tanks and silos, regardless if the raw material is delivered in solid or liquid form.
Rely on Micropilot FMR67 with 80GHz technology for highest demands in bulk solids level measurement.
Use Micropilot FMR62 for level measurement in aggressive liquids or applications with hygiene requirements.
From pressing to finished edible oil, the raw oil passes through various temperature ranges to ensure product quality. In the deodorizing step, the process temperature rises to as high as 240 °C.
Our expertise in the field
Endress+Hauser offers a wide range of temperature measurement instruments for all process requirements, from simple compact thermometers to modular temperature transmitters.
Choose the temperature instrument best suited to your process needs from a comprehensive product portfolio. In most of the quality related applications we recommend our thermometer iTHERM Moduline TM131.
Safely monitoring pressure and vacuum in the vessels
Ceramic measurement cells are a proven technology for maintaining the proper vacuum level in the vessels during the process.
Our expertise in the field
Thanks to a vacuum-proof ceramic measurement cell with integrated breakage detection membrane, our Cerabar pressure transmitter ensures a high degree of process safety . The Quick Setup feature with configurable measuring range allows simple commissioning, reduces costs and saves time.
Explore our digital pressure transmitter Cerabar PMC51.
Flow and volume monitoring even in demanding applications
Flowmeters are used to reliably monitor the transfer of the raw oil within the individual process steps.
Our expertise in the field
As a result, loss can be detected and prevented in order to maintain the yield at a constantly high level. In addition, highly precise Coriolis flowmeters are used to control the dosing of process enhancers, operating materials and additives, thus ensuring product quality.
Benefit from simultaneous measurement of mass flow, density, temperature and viscosity thanks to Coriolis flow measurement.
Discover Proline Promass F 300, the Coriolis flowmeter with premium accuracy, robustness and an ultra-compact transmitter.
Avoid process interruptions by permanent diagnostics, verification and monitoring thanks to Heartbeat Technology. It ensures a cost-efficient and safe plant operation during the entire life cycle.
Maintenance keeps your processes safe and efficient
Regular maintenance is decisive to ensure that all instruments required for production operate at 100% efficiency around the clock.
Our expertise in the field
Optimize your maintenance effort and activities across your installed base with Endress+Hauser's maintenance services.
Optimize your edible oil refining process
Learn more about how to optimize your edible oil refining through all process steps – from degumming, neutralization, washing, bleaching, deodorization up to dry fractionation.
Overview of process parameters in the dry fractionation
Benefits
As a manufacturer of edible oils, you face constant pressure to conserve resources and reduce downtime while simultaneously maximizing productivity. That’s why you need a reliable partner. Our experienced team of industry experts can help you select the right measurement technology for all of your critical process parameters, enabling you to ensure product safety and quality at the same time.
100%
measurement reliability thanks to calibration ensured by our global service experts
ONE
reliable partner with application, industry and process expertise in the manufacture of edible oils
24/7
system availability without interruptions or downtime
C. Thywissen GmbH, Germany, processes 2,000 tons of plant seeds daily. Robust instruments from Endress+Hauser reliably perform their respective measurement task along the entire production process.
Water, beverages, dairy products, chemicals or pharmaceuticals have to be analyzed every day. Choose the device best suited to your process needs from our comprehensive product portfolio.
Flowmeter
Flowmeter
Water, natural gas, steam, mineral oil, chemicals are some of the fluids that have to be measured day in, day out. Select the flowmeter best suited to your process needs.
Level
Level
Continuous level measurement and point level detection in liquids and bulk solids
Pressure
Pressure
Powerful instruments for process pressure, differential pressure, level and flow.
Software
Software
Apart from all relevant measuring and system technologies, we also offer appropriate software for all branches of industry that provide to run your operating processes at its full potential.
System products
System products
Applicator
Temperature measurement
Temperature measurement
Thermometers and transmitters for the process industry
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