De-gumming Oil Plant

-> Gum conditioning with concentrated phosphoric acid.
The above mentioned operations form stages of continuous degumming and alkali refining process and the dry neutralized oil is obtained continuously from the plant.

Continuous Acid Degumming

Crude oil is pumped in a continuous and constant stream by pump P1 and heated to required temperature in the plate heat exchanger E1, mixed with pre-calculated quantity of acid in an knife mixer and fed to inline mixer wherein pre-calculated quality of water is added and fed to a precipitation tank. Oil water R1/ acid mixture R2 is allowed.
Sufficient residence time in the precipitation tank fro the gums to agglomerate on hydration and then pumped to separator where the oil and hydrated gums are separated and pumped to storage or disposal.