Manufacturing step in ginger oil processing.

Step 1. General Process

Freshly harvested ginger rhizomes are cleaned free of mud in a washing tank
and the final cleaning is done by spraying water on to the ginger using a high
pressure pump.

The cleaned ginger is subjected to size reduction and reduced to a paste form
using a hammer mill. Alternatively an ordinary grinder-mixer is also used for
making the paste. (Cutting / Chopping / Grinding)

The cleaned ginger is subjected to size reduction and reduced to a paste form
using a hammer mill. Alternatively an ordinary grinder-mixer is also used for
making the paste.

The mashed-up ginger is manually fed into the screw press for dewatering.
Some juice released during the mashing-up operation is also mixed with the
juice collected in the dewatering step. (Cake Pressing)

Fresh ginger contains 85-90% moisture. Moisture content is substantially

removed in the compression process and the compression ratio is so adjusted
that about 80-90% of the total moisture is removed from the material.

The juice so obtained is allowed to settle for 5-8 hours for separation of starch.
The juice is decanted and starch is washed with water free of juice and the
washings are combined with the original juice. Starch is then dried and can be
used as edible starch in food products. (This is intermediate step in which
process by product can be obtained.

Essential oil is recovered from the juice by simple distillation. The juice from
ginger contains about 60-70% of the oil present in fresh ginger. The liquid
mixture is simply boiled and the vapours condensed using a condenser to
recover the oil. Alternatively, oil is recovered by indirect heating, steam
distillation and also simple distillation after diluting the juice with water to get
more or less the same yield of oil.

This is the final Raw material which is used for steam distillation & further
extraction of volatile oil from fresh ginger.

Above given process is proposed for pre- preparation for ginger oil extraction
which need convert in specific form to get more yield from ginger.
Step 2. Steam Distillation process – Main process to extract oil from Ginger
The oil is recovered from the aqueous phase by simple distillation and from the
solid phase by steam distillation for maximum oil recovery. Oil obtained from
both the phases are combined together and the combined oil represents the
fresh ginger oil with the typical fresh spice note.

“X” qty.of cleaned ginger of 88% moisture and 0.55% essential oil were cleaned
free of mud as described in the general procedure. It was subjected to size
reduction using a hammer mill. The masked up ginger will fed into the hydraulic
press for dewatering: and 84% of water is removed in this step.

oil is distributed between the solid and liquid phases in the ratio 2:4.5. The cake
(4 kg) and juice (44 kg) were subjected to steam distillation and simple
distillation. 70% oil recovery from the juice and 76% recovery from the cake
were recorded.

The solvent extracts after desolventisation by distillation under vacuum followed

by removing the traces of solvent in thin film evaporator is mixed with the
combined oil from cake and juice to get the total oleoresin.

The cake after distillation can be dried at 55-60°C and used directly as ginger
powder for food flavouring purposes wherever the pungency of ginger is
desirable.

Final product will collect from condensate chamber as essential oil & other by
product can be further used as ginger powder/oleoresin etc.

The overall yield of essential oil was 0.4% and that of oleoresin 0.8% based on
fresh ginger.

Final product will collect from condensate chamber as essential oil & other by
product can be further used as ginger powder/oleoresin etc.

The overall yield of essential oil was 0.4% and that of oleoresin 0.8% based on
fresh ginger.
Oil Extraction Machine of capacity of 100 Lit/day