It is a process of extracting the oil from the olive drupes to use for food or for other uses.
A drupe is a part of a fruit which has a seed that is surrounded by an outer fleshy part.
The oil in the olive is produced in the mesocrap cells and then it is stored in a particular type of vacuole which is named lipovacuole.
The extraction is a process in which the oil is separated from the other fruit contents, in this case the olive. The separation of the oil from the other oils is by chemical means and the separation of th oil from the solids is by physical means.
Olive oil presses or mills have been around for over 5.000 years or even more. The greeks were the frist people in history to start pressing olives to make oil.
What happens in an olive oil mill.
At frist the olives are harvested from the olive felds. Then the harvested is washed with potable water and the dirt, the leaves and what ever else is removed from the olives.
After that the olives are then placed onto large millstones, where they are crushed. They are left there for about 30 to 40 minutes until the olives have formed some sort of paste.
Then the olive paste that is left after the crushing of the olives is either: Spreaed on fiber disks, which are then stacked on top of each other. Then pressure is applied on the disks, compacting the solid paste and forming a liquid.
Mixed and beat which prepares the paste for separation of the oil from the pomace. Then extraction of the oil is accomplished by applying pressure.
The waste consists of solid and liquid waste. The solid waste is used as fuel, fertilizer, herbicide, animal feed, road construction material, olive bricks and worm breeding material.
The extraction is a process in which the oil is separated from the other fruit contents, in this case the olive. The separation of the oil from the other oils is by chemical means and the separation of th oil from the solids is by physical means.
Olive oil presses or mills have been around for over 5.000 years or even more. The greeks were the frist people in history to start pressing olives to make oil.
What happens in an olive oil mill.
At frist the olives are harvested from the olive felds. Then the harvested is washed with potable water and the dirt, the leaves and what ever else is removed from the olives.
After that the olives are then placed onto large millstones, where they are crushed. They are left there for about 30 to 40 minutes until the olives have formed some sort of paste.
Then the olive paste that is left after the crushing of the olives is either: Spreaed on fiber disks, which are then stacked on top of each other. Then pressure is applied on the disks, compacting the solid paste and forming a liquid.
Mixed and beat which prepares the paste for separation of the oil from the pomace. Then extraction of the oil is accomplished by applying pressure.
The waste consists of solid and liquid waste. The solid waste is used as fuel, fertilizer, herbicide, animal feed, road construction material, olive bricks and worm breeding material.
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