In recent years, buoyed by a new wave of worldwide demand for castor oil, castor cultivation and its downstream industries such as castor oil extraction shows great economic potential and tremendous opportunities. If you are planning for starting a castor oil manufacturing business and need a full plan for the oil extraction and refinery.
How is bio-lubricant produced from castor oil?
Paper presented at the SPE Nigeria Annual International Conference and Exhibition, Lagos, Nigeria, July 2017. In this research, bio-lubricant was produced from castor oil in two stage processes where methyl ester of the oil was produced by esterification and then transesterified using homogenous catalyst (NaOH).
How to start castor oil business?
If you plan to start castor oil business for medicinal application, it is better to adopt cold pressing method. Cold pressed oil has low acid value (<1.5) and light color (Y10, R1). It can meet the international medical standard (PP grade).
How is castor oil extracted?
Castor oil is extracted from castor oil seeds by either mechanical pressing or solvent extraction. Give details of castor oil press,including freight to Kenya.would you also buy the oil. Kindly let me know castor oil manufacturing capacity you need?