Continuous press for extracting vegetable oils.

System for extracting vegetable oils with continuous press and filter press.

It was used to extract cocoa butter.

- Continuous Press.

Manufacturer: Ecirtec.

Model: MPE-100 S PI.

Equipment partially made of stainless steel, consisting of:

Compression system containing laminated carbon steel shaft.

Cast stainless steel helicoids with heat treatment.

Bar basket with cast stainless steel structure and stainless steel bars laminated with heat treatment.

The adjustment set allows control of cake thickness by positioning the output cone, increasing or decreasing the internal pressure of the cake.
basket.

The equipment has a dosing feeder made of carbon steel sheets and profiles.

Hopper with nominal capacity: 100 liters.

Helical screw type doser driven by a 0.5 HP three-phase gear motor.

The press is supplied with a feed spout, feeder casing, side and top closing plates made of stainless steel.

The press drive is made up of a high-performance three-phase geared motor, SEW brand, 7.5 HP directly coupled to the helical shaft.

The support structure made of carbon steel sheets with epoxy paint, designed for the customer to install a collector/settler tank with heating in the lower part of the press, continues.

It comes with a control panel made of carbon steel sheets with a direct start key for the press's main motor.

With frequency inverter for the dosing feeder motor.

System for adjusting the speed of the dosing feeder using a frequency inverter depending on the amperage of the main motor of the press.

There is a wide variety of raw materials that can be extracted: such as extraction of cocoa butter, coconut oil, oil from various seeds (sunflower, sesame, linseed, among others such as walnuts, Brazil nuts).*

*Each raw material has its own characteristics and must be properly prepared before being fed into the continuous press.

- Filter press.

Manufacturer: Ecirtec.

Model: FPE-25/10 PI.

Vertical plate type equipment partially built in steel
stainless steel, made up of:

With 10 plates and 11 frames in cast aluminum.

Nominal dimensions of 250 X 250 mm.

It has an oil collection spout and a tray for retaining fines made of AISI 304 stainless steel sheets.

With manual mechanical closing system.

With feeder head and moving head made of carbon steel sheets.

Supply system consisting of a gear pump directly coupled to a 0.5 HP three-phase geared motor with interconnection to the feeder head through stainless steel tubes, valves and connections.

Complete with spring-type relief valve mounted on the pipe, without a straight pressure gauge with a diameter of 100 mm, without the two sets of filtering fabric and with a valve for compressed air inlet for cleaning and draining the filter.

The equipment does not have an automatic direct start key.

Equipment painted in gray epoxy.