This process is applied specially to sunflower oil with lower
wax content. The bleached oil is cooled through oil-to-oil
heat exchanger and then pumped into crystallizers where small
amount of the filter aid like CELITE is dosed. The oil is
continuiously kept at low temperature, which aids crystallization
of waxes.
The crystallized oil is then fed to a maturator for further
improvement of the wax crystals. The oil is the pumped into
a pressure leaf filter where the filter aid retains the wax
and clear dewaxed oil is produced.
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