Cottonseed meal is a good source of protein. It is the byproduct remaining after cotton is ginned and the seeds crushed and the oil extracted. The remaining meal is usually used for animal feed and in organic fertilizers. Most of the meal is extracted mechanically through cottonseed kernels.
What is cottonseed oil?
Cottonseed oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of the cotton plant after the cotton lint has been removed. It¡¯s composed of linters (10%), cotton shell (40~45%) and kernel. the oil content of cotton seed is 15%-25%, the oil content of kernel is 30%-40% after decorticating.
How a cotton seed oil mill works?
In the cotton seed oil mill, the seed undergoes the following steps: Seed Cleaning, Oil Extraction, Neutralization, Oil Storage and Filling. Seed Cleaner can be used effectively to remove impurities like trash, stones, metal, sand, broken seeds from the feed material in order to ensure maximum purity of the final product.
How to squeeze out oil from cotton seeds?
Cracking: Adopting the toothed cracking roller to make the cotton seeds kernel into a right uniform pcs which can keep a moderate block size for squeezing out the oil.