Similar to liquid Lecithin, Powdered lecithin is ideal for use in the Food, Nutraceutical & Pharmaceutical industry. The powdered form is a wax like ingredient and it is obtained from Soyabean, Sunflower, Rape Seed and Rice Bran. It is an ideal thickening addition to food and cosmetic products and enhances product shelf life owing to its preservative nature. Its benefit over liquid lecithin is its ability to blend into almost any set of ingredients.
The extraction is done using acetone as solvent. The lecithin after the pre-treatment is extracted in a specially designed and efficient continuous counter current extraction system (Liquid –Liquid Extraction) with acetone to precipitate the acetone insolubles. After extraction, the miscella is withdrawn into a miscella tank and the thick solid Slurry is transferred to a d-canter feed tank. The miscella is pumped to acetone recovery system, to recover the acetone for reuse. The soya oil remaining after acetone recovery is saleable.
The thick solid –slurry transferred to the d-canter feed tank is decanted in a high speed centrifuge to separate the acetone and the solids acetone goes to the miscalla tank and solids are taken for drying.
Drying of the acetone wet solids is done in a specially designed two stage closed loop continuous fluidized bed dryer. The Drier comes with a nitrogen generator and is totally a PLC controlled system. The other utilities required for the dry steam and chilled brine The deoiled lecithin powder coming out of the drying system is then sieved, micronized and packed.
The miscella generated after extraction is taken to a four stage acetone recovery system. This system is very critical in terms of recovery of acetone and minimizing the distillation losses of acetone. The recovered acetone is condensed and recycled to extraction process.
A granulator can be provided for manufacture of granular lecithin
Key Features of Our Plant:
- Robust plant and machinery with equipments designed & manufactured with latest technology
- Automated process control plant with minimum manual intervention
- Online controls for drying and packing of product
- Excellent milling system to get desired particle size
- Low Acetone losses & optimum utility consumption
- Reuse of acetone
- Reduced bleaching plant time cycle
- Minimum power wastage, Energy efficient plants
- Advance packing and storage techniques
- Extraction process control
- Consistency in quality & quantity of output
- No effluent generation
