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Coconut Copra and Coconut Oil Pressing

by Vivian Chen Sales Manager
Copra is the dried meat, or kernel, of the coconut. It has a maximum moisture content of six percent. Derived from the coconut palm, copra is the chief commercial product from coconut, used mainly as a source of coconut oil. The remaining by-product, known as copra cake or copra meal, is used in blending livestock feed for its oil, protein and carbohydrates, or as a raw material for the extraction of remaining oil by solvent extraction method. We can supply coconut oil production line for you.
As an oil-rich pulp, copra normally has an oil content varying from 65 to 72 percent. The quality of coconut oil is related to the quality of copra. The oil content of copra and the oil extraction rate vary according to the variety of coconut processed, its degree of ripeness, and growing conditions. The physical characteristics of copra which affect the oil quality and the extraction rate include the rubberiness of the meat, case hardening which results from inadequate drying, or charring of the meat from over-heating.
Well dried copra is cleaned and then cut into small chips. After proper cooking, it is fed into the expeller continuously and pressed twice, and then filtered by means of an oil filter. Screw oil press is such an expeller that process copra into coconut oil. It could process copra from 1 ton per day to 18 ton per day but only take about 1-2 square meters area. The oil left in cake is less than 6%. And cake thickness can be adjusted.
Coconut oil made from copra has good applications in industrial area. It is used in the manufacture of toilet soap and laundry soap, because it has high levels of lauric acid, an ingredient that gives soap a quick-lathering property. Coconut oil is also used for manufacturing detergents, surfactants, emulsifiers, plasticizers and various other organic products which are bio-degradable.

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