Small projects fail when the first scope is too vague. Confirm shelling or kernel feed, hot or lower-temperature route, daily output, crude-oil filtration and storage, and peanut cake destination before freezing phase one.
Plan phase one of a small peanut oil factory around feed entry, pressing route, filtration, storage, and peanut cake handling.
Make feed entry, hot pressing, filtration, and cake receiving work first.
Separate current pressing, filtration, and storage scope from the next phase.
Reserve space and interfaces for refining, filling, or a second product route.
A small factory should first understand batch rhythm and post-press handoff.
Phase-one scope
Align oil discharge, filtration, settling, and storage in the same layout discussion.
If cake is sold, crushed, or stored, discharge direction and collection space need to be reserved early.
Decide whether pods are shelled in this phase or kernels are purchased from outside.
Start with hot-aroma output or position the first phase as a lower-temperature premium route.
Decide whether filtration, settling, and storage are included now or whether oil only leaves the press.
Reserve space for cake collection, storage, crushing, or sale.
Quotation data
Project boundary
How to Plan Phase One for a Small Peanut Oil Factory 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.
Factory model check
When discussing How to Plan Phase One for a Small Peanut Oil Factory, 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).
Equipment check
After How to Plan Phase One for a Small Peanut Oil Factory 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.
Record feed form, daily volume, moisture, and sorting needs so pretreatment is not left to operators.
Define pneumatic/plate-frame filtration, tanks, retained samples, and cake offtake before press count. Factory hot lines often use multi-layer paper filters.
Prepare space, power (often 380V/50Hz/3ph), labor, target package, local rules, and acceptance method before quotation.
Questions to confirm next
Model 325 with 14 partitions, 100 kg/barrel: ~30-45 min press cycle + load/unload time = ~2 barrels per 1.5 h = 12-16 barrels per 8-hour shift = 1200-1600 kg/day kernel input. Yield 40-48% hot → 480-770 kg oil/day. Two presses double the throughput on the same shelling/roasting line.
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