small cotton seed oil refinery system in egypt

                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
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  • Does Egypt rely on cotton seeds for oil production?
  • Egypt does not rely on upon them for oil production. Cotton crop that is one of the dual-purpose crops is generally grown for textile industry. The cotton seeds are then utilized to produce crude cottonseed oil either by pressing or by solvent extraction or by both of the two technologies together.
  • What is cottonseed oil?
  • Cottonseed oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of the cotton plant after the cotton lint has been removed. It¡¯s composed of linters (10%), cotton shell (40~45%) and kernel. the oil content of cotton seed is 15%-25%, the oil content of kernel is 30%-40% after decorticating.
  • When was crude oil produced from cottonseed?
  • Due to the progress in cotton ginning industry and the increase of cottonseed production as a byproduct of this industry, the production of a crude oil from cottonseed has been established in USA in 1799 (Jennings, 2010).
  • What is the difference between conventional and non-conventional oilseeds?
  • The first is conventional oilseed that can yield oils for every day edible purposes such as sunflower oil, canola oil, and soybean oil. The other class of oilseeds is non-conventional that yield oils that have some beneficial functional properties such as flaxseed oil and is normally used in rather small doses.
  • Can Egypt produce sunflower oil self-sufficiency?
  • Sunflower crop was introduced in Egypt in 1987, and the oil content of its seed ranges between 39 and 46% (The Arab league for Nutrition Industries, 2007). The Minister of Supply and Internal Trade indicates that Egypt will accomplish sunflower oil creation self-sufficiency by nurturing lands and refining edible oils in bordering Sudan.
  • What is the production-consumption gap in edible oil in Egypt?
  • The production-consumption gap for edible oil in Egypt is estimated to be 97%. This is due to the population growth of around 1.5 million people annually (CAPMAS, 2014; El-Hamidi and Zaher, 2018) according to the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation.