Process insights

Comprehensive insights into key processes and utilities in edible oil production

Understanding and optimising key processes, including both the main production stages and essential utility processes, are crucial to maintaining high standards in the edible oil industry. By leveraging advanced measurement and control technologies, manufacturers can gain deep insights into their operations, ensuring consistency, quality, and cost-effectiveness. This section delves into the critical process insights that drive efficiency and innovation in edible oil production, setting the stage for enhanced operational excellence.

Unlock improvements to give faster production and tighter control of core and costly ingredients

Handling of base ingredients

Measuring your process

Bottling your final product

One of the biggest challenges in the manufacture of Edible Oil is to increase efficiency and to lower costs without compromising the quality of the final product. Besides precise flow, pressure, temperature and analytical instruments, KROHNE supply mass flowmeters with the highest density accuracy on the market. The flowmeters maintain operation over wide range of air entrainments, high viscosities, temperature variations and lower pressure drops. During handling of base ingredients, KROHNE offers level measurement solutions for tanks with constant switching density. Furthermore the pressure transmitters with ceramic membrane are fast reacting and operate temperature independent and with no risk of leakage.

Processes within the Edible Oil Industry

Processing

Degumming

Continuous bleaching

Semi-conductive deodorization

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Dry fractionation

Hydrogenation

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Utilities within Edible Oil

Steam flow monitoring

A large number of heat exchangers require the utmost optimisation of the heating circuit.

OPTISONIC 8300

Ultrasonic flowmeter for high-temperature overheated steam applications (up to 600 °C)

Bi-directional
No moving parts > no wear, no re-calibration
No pressure drop
High 60:1 turn-down and high accuracy (+/- 1%)
Maintenance-free and long lifetime
-40 °C … 600 °C and pressure up to 200 bar
For overheated steam and high-temperature gasses

Cooling water, heating water & condensate

The most suitable solutions for cooling water, heating water & condesate measurements.

Electromagnetic flowmeters
Cooling water

Highly accurate, robust and reliable
Short in-/outlets
Liquid needs be conductive > No condensate
No warm water due to magnetite

VA-meters
Cooling water, condensate and warm water

Cost-effective and simple
Can be used as local indicator and flow-alarm
No in-/outlets

Ultrasonic flowmeters
Cooling water, condensate and warm water

Highly accurate, robust and reliable
Short in-/outlets
Clamp-ons in case mechanical installation is difficult

Heat exchangers & boiler feedwater

Optimalisation of heat-exchangers & boiler feedwater with our Smart Meter Valve

FOCUS-1 Smart Meter Valve

All-in-one autonomous actuators combining valve capabilities, flow, pressure and temperature measurement with unique diagnostics and control functions
FOCUS-1 is its own control loop
Responds faster and with less control deviation compared to a classic control loop
Resulting in an improved operation of the heat exchanger and so lower energy usage
IIoT-ready for use in advanced, autonomous operating factories and with advanced diagnostics, e.g. “smart cavitation control”

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