UNIFEM: Oil Processing: Food Cycle Technology Source Books

Offers guidance on the selection of appropriate equipment for small businesses, with case studies and technical information about each type of machine. For field workers training for food processing projects, and their trainers, and the non-specialist.

INTRODUCTION ix

1 Raw materials from which oil can be extracted 1

2 Traditional methods of oil extraction 2

Oil-seed processing

Nuts

Mesocarps

Women and oil extraction technologies

3 Improved technologies

Pre-processing methods and devices

Oil extraction devices

Refining

Systems for oil processing

4 Case studies

Oil expellers

Oil plate presses

Alternative energy sources

Technology change to meet women's choice

Summary

5 Planning a project or enterprise

First questions

Background questions

Effect of improved technology on traditional processing industry

6 Pre-processing and extraction equipment: facts and figures

Pre-processing

Expellers

Ghanis

Screw presses

Hydraulic presses

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