Vegetable Oil Production

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Overview

OSE principles suggest minimal use of petroleum products, which often means the substitution of locally produced vegetable oils. Oil crops are also likely to be grown for edible cooking oils. In either case, appropriately-scaled oil processing technology is required.

Applications

Crops

  • Canola (modified rapeseed)
  • Soybean
  • Sunflower

Process

Oilseed refining.png

Small scale processing paper from ATTRA