Oilseeds Flaking Machine

An oilseeds flaking machine is a critical pre-treatment mechanical system positioned directly between the crushing/cracking stage and the cooking or extraction process. It utilizes heavy, counter-rotating smooth rollers to compress broken oilseed pieces into thin, uniform flakes. This mechanical deformation is essential for prepping large-form crops like soybeans, sunflower seeds, and corn germ, altering the seed structure so the oil can be efficiently extracted.

Technical Working Principles

• Precision Feeding: A top-mounted magnetic drum removes any missed metal before an agitation roller evenly distributes the seeds.
• Hydraulic Squeezing: Heavy-duty, chilled iron rollers press together under intense hydraulic pressure (typically 40 to 80 bar).
• Cell Disruption: The intense mechanical compression fractures the microscopic, oil-bearing cell walls of the plant material.
• Thickness Control: Precision gap-adjustment mechanisms flatten the seeds into highly uniform flakes measuring between 0.25mm and 0.40mm thick.

Applications of Flaking Machine

It is applicable to press kinds of oil-bearing material, such as peanut, rapeseed, sunflower seed, castor bean, maize germ, tea seed, oil palm seed, rice bran, sesame, shea nuts, tung nut, copra, hemp seed, flaxseed, olive, walnut, perilla seed, oil melon, tallow seed, castor seed, corn germ, safflower seed, almond, pepper seed, etc. into flakes in pretreatment workshop.

Principle of Oil-seeds Flaking Mill

Oilseeds flaking mill makes use of rolling pressure generated by two rollers to press oil seed from granularity into flake. Because of the little gap between the rollers of the flaking machine, oil materials need preprocessing before they feed into the flaking machine. For example, large-size oil materials like peanuts and soybean should be ground by crushing machine, while materials with low-oil content, low water content, and hard tissue like rape seeds and cotton seeds need softening first.