The cheapest peanut press quote is usually the one missing half the line
A press alone is not a peanut oil line. Before you compare prices, confirm what each quote actually includes: shelling, roasting, the press class, filtration, storage, and cake handling. This checklist makes the scope visible.
What a peanut oil press customer should confirm before quoting: pods vs kernels, hot 80-100°C vs cold ≤60°C route, hourly capacity, aflatoxin control <20 μg/kg, filtration 200-300 mesh, and cake destination.
Feed data
Photos of pods, shelled kernels, or clean graded kernels, plus moisture, impurity, and existing prep method.
Process data
Hot aroma, lower-temperature route, or dual-product plan, plus retained roasters, filters, and tanks.
Site data
Workshop dimensions, voltage, doorway, lifting limits, movement path, and where this phase stops.
Quotation packetCollect feed, process, workshop, post-press handoff, and attachments together
Put the information that changes quotation boundary into one project brief.
Use the real pressing clip to check your own project data
Map roasting, loading, pressing, oil discharge, and handoff in the clip back to your workshop conditions.
Scope read
Match your business type to the real equipment scope
Small mill / village workshop
Often press-only fits if shelling and roasting already exist. Confirm a 300-325 ton hot press, barrel loading rhythm, and a plate-frame filter. Crude-oil tanks and cake bagging still need a home.
Regional edible-oil plant
Plan the full line: shelling, cleaning, roasting 160-180°C, multiple press cells, 200-300 mesh filtration, settling tanks, and cake conveying. Throughput is set by the slowest stage, not the press alone.
Premium bottled brand
Cold route ≤60°C on a 355-500 ton press, with cleaner kernels, tighter filtration, clean storage, and bottling. Aflatoxin control (<20 μg/kg) and clarity matter more than headline tonnage.
Before pricing
The data that actually changes a peanut quote
1 · Feed form and quality
Pods or shelled kernels? Shell is 30-40% of pod weight. State kernel oil content (44-56%), tested moisture (target 5-8%), and how damaged/moldy kernels are removed.
2 · Route and target output
Hot (80-100°C, yield 40-48%) or cold (≤60°C, yield 35-42%)? Give output by kg/shift or barrels/day, not just an annual figure — cycle is 30-40 min hot, 60-90 min cold per 100 kg barrel.
3 · Post-press and cake plan
Filtration mesh (200-300), settling, storage tanks, and where cake (protein 45-50%) goes: feed, food-grade flour, or re-pressing. Reserve refining/filling interfaces if they come later.
4 · Site and utilities
Workshop dimensions, voltage, roaster fuel, doorway/lifting limits, and photos of any existing roasting, settling, or filtration equipment that stays in service.
Avoid rework
Quote mistakes that cost peanut customers later
Crude peanut oil into filtration and storage
Filtration mesh, settling, and tank plan belong in the quote, not as an afterthought.
- Comparing a press-only price against a full-line price as if they were the same offer.
- Giving annual tonnage instead of kg/shift, so the press cell count and roaster size can't be sized.
- Leaving aflatoxin control out of scope — food-grade and export oil require color sorting or picking plus per-batch testing (<20 μg/kg).
- Forgetting the cake route, so cake (45-50% protein) piles up and blocks the oil room.
A complete brief turns three rounds of vague follow-up into one accurate quote. Send the four data blocks above together.
Project boundary
What to confirm before scoping Peanut Oil Press customer Checklist: Scope, Capacity, and the Data That Changes the Quote
Peanut Oil Press customer Checklist: Scope, Capacity, and the Data That Changes the Quote should not be quoted from an equipment name alone. Check feed lots, target oil, post-press handling, and packing rhythm in one scope before deciding which Peanut Oil Press modules stay. Listed on the factory hot-press page — discuss 300/325 first.
When feed condition, moisture, impurities, batch weight, and product position are unclear, press tonnage and filter area become guesswork. Factory systems share 60 MPa and 2.2 kW motors; hot pure press is 30–40 min/barrel and cold pure press is ~2 h/barrel — cycle time matters more than brochure tonnage.
- Confirm whether feed is whole seed, kernels, pretreated material, or an existing semi-finished stream.
- Confirm whether the target is crude oil, filtered oil, bottled oil, drum ingredient oil, or a refining handoff.
- Hot cycle reference: pure press 30-40 min/barrel, ~1.5 h for 2 barrels with loading; cold pure press ~2 h/barrel, ~4.5 h for 2 barrels.
- Confirm batch rhythm, labor, changeover, retained samples, power (often 380V/50Hz/3ph), and site install conditions.
Factory model check
Match hot / cold models to factory hard data
When discussing Peanut Oil Press customer Checklist: Scope, Capacity, and the Data That Changes the Quote, pin models to published factory specs — not tonnage alone.
Hot 300/325: 300–325 ton, 60 MPa system, standard barrel Ø390×800 mm / max 100 kg, pure press 30–40 min/barrel, ~1.5 h for 2 barrels with loading, 2.2 kW motor. Cold 355/400/426/480/500: 370–630 ton, integrated frame, same 100 kg standard barrel, pure press ~2 h/barrel, ~4.5 h for 2 barrels with loading; optional Ø300 high-pressure barrel max 60 kg. Residual oil target ~≤5% (peanut hot often 6–8% measured).
- Standard barrel Ø390×800 mm, max ~100 kg crushed feed; optional Ø300 high-pressure barrel max ~60 kg.
- Cylinder material 27SiMn; cold frames are integrated molded steel; hot frames are typically H-type channel steel.
- Listed on the factory hot-press page — discuss 300/325 first.
Equipment check
project scope needs to land in equipment interfaces
After Peanut Oil Press customer Checklist: Scope, Capacity, and the Data That Changes the Quote is clear, write the interfaces: how preparation feeds the press, how oil leaves the press, how filtration connects to tanks, and how packing receives finished oil.
Front-end input
Record feed form, daily volume, moisture, and sorting needs so pretreatment is not left to operators.
Filtration, tanks, and peanut cake
Define pneumatic/plate-frame filtration, tanks, retained samples, and cake offtake before press count. Factory hot lines often use multi-layer paper filters.
Delivery data
Prepare space, power (often 380V/50Hz/3ph), labor, target package, local rules, and acceptance method before quotation.
Questions to confirm next
Clear these up first
Feed form plus target output by shift. Whether you start from pods (shell 30-40%) or kernels, and how many kg per shift or barrels per day, together decide press class (300-325 hot / 355-500 cold), cell count, and roaster size.
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