good quality copra, with a free fatty acid content of %. usally in the form of regular grain -sized pellets. extraction technology, dry processing: oil extraction from copra is carried out by two methods: mechanically by pressing; or by use of solvents. mechanical and solvent extraction uses standard...
was carried out. different filtration techniques were employed for the removal of the sediments present in crude coconut oil. crude oil was subjected to gravity settling, centrifugal separation, filtration using filters with different pore size and degumming of oil. crude oil took longer time to become...