As an internationally recognized healthy vegetable oil, olive oil has a wealth of nutrients and certain health care functions. It has a very high status in the eyes of the people who are increasingly pursuing 'eat healthy'.
Internationally, olive oil is divided into two categories, virgin olive oil and refined olive oil. They are distinguished by the acidity index. Olive oil with an acidity below 3.3% is called extra virgin olive oil and is produced directly from fresh olive fruit. Cold pressing is performed mechanically to remove foreign matter from the filtering process; the olive oil is refined because the acidity of the extra virgin olive oil exceeds 3.3%, so it needs to be refined. In general, extra virgin olive oil obtains people with high quality The favorite, is the grease that people give priority to when purchasing, so this article will analyze the equipment needed for extra virgin olive oil.
Big gap in olive oil equipment in China
In the International Olive Oil Council’s olive oil appraisal concluded at the beginning of this month, one of the two olive oils imported from China won the first prize in ripe fruit flavor, which was particularly noticeable among European countries. The competition determines the quality of olive oil through physical and chemical indicators and taste differentiation. The participating olive oils need to be tested by a Spanish testing agency first. Then the taste team will identify the taste. The olive oil brand produced in China will receive this award, stating olives. The production of oil products is in line with international standards. However, when the author inquired about the production equipment of the award-winning company, the company found that the company used an olive oil production line imported from Italy.
As an internationally recognized healthy vegetable oil, olive oil has a wealth of nutrients and certain health care functions. It has a very high status in the eyes of the people who are increasingly pursuing 'healthy eating'. Take 16 years of data, according to the survey, China's olive oil market has a retail volume of nearly 38,000 tons, which is less than the total annual consumption of traditional edible vegetable oils such as peanut oil and soybean oil in China, which exceeds 20 million tons. However, the growth rate is more than 14%. The total consumption is not high, but the production of olive oil in China is even lower. By the end of 16th, the olive oil output was about 5600 tons. The remaining consumption gap still needs to be imported from Spain, Italy, Turkey, Greece and other countries.
It can be seen that whether the production line used by the award-winning olive oil production enterprises comes from abroad, or the olive oil gap in China requires foreign olive oil companies to carry out repairs, it shows that there are huge shortages of olive oil production equipment in China. Faced with this phenomenon, China The olive oil related equipment manufacturers need to accelerate the pace of research and innovation, promote olive oil production through the upgrading and upgrading of olive oil related equipment, and promote the further development of the olive oil market in China.
Food machinery and equipment also need to collectively force
Because the production process is simple, the extra virgin olive oil requires little production equipment. It only needs cleaning equipment, mixing crusher, cold pressing equipment, centrifugal separator, oil storage tank, filtration, filling and packaging equipment. The production process is simple and the demand for production equipment is low. It also requires related equipment to guarantee olive oil production in all aspects.
The cleaning of olives can be divided into two steps. First, the wind separator blows away the leaves and floating dust and then rinses them with water to clean the equipment. Once the olive peels are scratched, they will spoil and deteriorate at an extremely fast rate. If the temperature is too high, the temperature will be too high. Accumulation of fermentation. Therefore, the olive cleaning equipment must be gentle. It is understood that the fruit and vegetable washing machine produced in China uses multiple air-flow bubbles for cleaning, which can better protect the olives, reduce impact, and damage caused by bumping.
Stirring, crushing is an important process before olive cold pressing. It needs the function of a mixer and a crusher. Olives are produced by using a cold pressing method. They do not need to generate friction with the parts and other oil crops, destroy the oil cells and make them into oil. Therefore, before the cold press, it needs to be stirred and broken to destroy the cells, but the high temperature caused by the movement of the equipment can not destroy the nutrient content of the olive oil. Therefore, no matter the mixer, the crusher should keep the low temperature running state. The cold source is required to drive, and the cold crusher cold source on the market can form a closed circuit system, making full use of energy.
Cold-pressing equipment is the main equipment in the olive oil production process. The multi-function oil press that is currently on the market in China can be used for both cold and hot purposes. It is suitable for olive oil crushing production. In general, cold pressing is compared with hot pressing. In terms of efficiency, cold press equipment needs to focus on the improvement of oil extraction efficiency during production. In addition, as the wind of energy saving and environmental protection becomes more and more intense, how to achieve energy saving and environmental protection for oil extraction equipment is also a question to be considered. The machine uses many advantages such as one machine to reduce electric power and raise the oil output rate to realize these issues.
Other equipment such as filling and packaging equipment is currently being automated, and the intelligent process is rapidly advancing; oil storage tanks are also adjusting the temperature through smart devices... but these separate power-generating equipment cannot form an efficient automated production line. The production of an efficient, smart, energy-efficient olive oil production line requires the collective force of food machinery and equipment, which will be pushed to one place and harmonized with each other.