What is RBD palm oil? How to make RBD palm oil?

Anna Zhang
3 min readMar 28, 2022

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RBD palm oil refers to the edible oil after crude palm oil is sent to an edible oil refinery plant for refining, decolorization and deodorization. RBD palm oil is nearly colorless and transparent in liquid and nearly white in solid. If further processed, RBD palm oil can also be processed into palm olein and palm stearin. And RBD palm oil, palm olein and palm stearin all have more uses and greater market demand. Due to this reason, many people want to know how to make RBD palm oil and how to make palm olein and palm stearin. Here, Henan Glory Company will introduce you the processing steps of making RBD palm oil.

Crude palm oil, RBD palm oil, palm olein and palm stearin

Crude palm oil, RBD palm oil, palm olein and palm stearin

The main steps in palm oil refining include degumming, deacidification, decolorization and deodorization.

Palm oil refining process

Palm oil refining process

Degumming is the process of removing colloidal impurities in the crude oil by adding hot water or phosphoric acid to the crude oil .

Deacidification is the removal of free fatty acids from crude oil. This is one of the most critical stage in the entire RBD palm oil refining process. That is, using alkali to neutralize free fatty acid, so that free fatty acid produces saponin and separates out from oil.

Palm oil refining equipment

Palm oil refining equipment

Decolorization refers to the quantitative decolorization agent (active clay, activated carbon) by vacuum inhalation in the oil, and continue to stir heating, maintain about 25 minutes, and then pump the mixture of oil and clay into the filter filter, that is, complete decolorization.

Palm oil decolorization machine

Palm oil decolorization machine

Deodorization means that the decolorizing oil is sucked into the deodorization tower and heated. When the oil is added to more than 100 degrees, the steam will take away all kinds of flavor.deodorization can not only remove the odorous substances in the crude oil, increase the smoke point of the oil, improve the flavor of the oil, but also effectively remove impurities.

Palm oil decolorization machine

Palm oil deodorization machine

The RBD palm oil obtained through the above steps also called edible oil, which has reached the food grade standard, people can eat it safely. As a professional manufacturer of palm oil processing machine, we can provide a series of equipment to help people to make crude palm oil, RBD palm oil, palm olein, palm stearin and others. If you are interested in our palm oil processing machine, welcome to consult us at any time.

Contact information:

http://www.palmoilextractionmachine.com
http://www.palmoilprocessingmachine.com
☏whatsApp/wechat: +86 13526627860
E-mail: palmoil@doingmachinery.com

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Anna Zhang

Doing Holdings — Henan Glory Oils & Fats Engineering Co., Ltd provides vegetable oil extraction, refinery machine, etc. http://www.cookingoilmillmachinery.com