Edible Oil Refining

With decades of cumulative experience and expertise in edible oil refining, Fenix^TM covers every step from crude oil processing to refining of various seed oils. Fenix has a delivery capacity from single section to a complete refinery.          
     

•     Experience of having executed many vegetable oil refining plants.
•     Has the process engineering and project handling capability.
•     Has the in house process simulation & design softwares and AUTOCACAD facilities.
•     Has exported plants and systems out of India.  
  

Has own manufacturing facility for core components like structured packing, column internals, heat exchangers, reactors, as well as fabrication of all process equipment.   
             
      Our range of processes include:                  

•            Degumming      
•           Water degumming    
  

Process to remove phosphatides from seed oils by precipitation with water and centrifugation - a method commonly used for seed oils.      
  Acid degummin 
Process to remove phosphatides from low grade oils containing non hydratable phosphatides by acid treatment, precipitation with water and centrifugation.
  Special degumming
Process of removal of gums and other impurities via precipitation and centrifugal separation, applied for physical refining of oils. 
Acid conditioning     
 Treatment of oils with acid, prior to neutralization and bleaching or physical refining           
Neutralization         
Removal of free fatty acids, gums by centrifugal separation, after reaction with caustic lye, followed by water washing and separation of residual soap.            
Dewaxing     
Dewaxing by in situ crystallization and centrifugal separation of the crystallized waxes along with soap stock.          
Bleaching    
Removal of color pigments, oxidized components and residual gums via absorption in bleaching clay followed by filtration of the spent earth.                
 Deacidification      
 Removal of substantial quantities of free fatty acids during physical refining along with volatile impurities also results in deodorization especially for high FFA Rice Bran Oil or Crude Palm Oil.
Deodorization       
Removal of residual free fatty acids and other volatile impurities by steam distillation under high vacuum. 
         
Fat Modification Processes               
  Dry Fractionation      
 Generating high and low melting fractions from one feedstock via controlled cooling and crystallization, followed by filtration using membrane filters - process applied for RBD Palm Oil.         
Hydrogenation     
Highly energy efficient system for production of Vanaspati or Hydrogenated fat.             
Inter esterification 
Process to modify the fat structure using Sodium Methoxide catalyst to produce bakery shortenings.
     
 By-Product Processes                
Lecithin drying
  Drying of wet gums recovered from water degumming of soya oil.
       
Soap stock splitting
Splitting of soap stock from neutralization, to recover crude fatty acids (acid oil) via reaction with mineral acid, followed by settling and separation.    
       
      Other Plant Modifications      
     

•     Capacity increase of existing refineries
•     Converting seed oil processing plant to Physical Refining Plant
•     Training of plant personnel on safely and optimization of process and Audit