What is the mechanical press method of shea butter extraction?
The mechanical press method of shea butter extraction has been reported by FAO and CFC (2002) but one of the earliest researches works on the use of the mechanical press was Marchand (1988). His research revealed that equipped with a jack that exerts 30 tonnes of force, a shea butter press could crush more than 3 kg of shea kernels within 20 min.
How to optimise shea butter production by mechanical extraction?
Shea butter (SB) production by mechanical extraction (ME) was optimised by box-behnken (BB) experimental design of response surface methodology (RSM). The process parameters studied (with their ranges) were sample weight (100 ¨C 200 g), temperature (60 ¨C 120C) and duration of applied pressure (10 ¨C 30 min) to optimise the yield of SB.
How to extract shea butter in Ghana?
Recent studies by Didia et al. (2018) suggest that enzymes technology is the way for shea butter extraction in Ghana. An aliquot equivalent to 50 g of shea nut biomass in 600 mL beaker was stirred with water in the ratio of 1:4 wt/vol and treated with commercial enzymes at optimized conditions.
How efficient is a centrifuge for shea butter extraction?
The centrifuge method The centrifuge method is one of the mechanical extraction technologies and Coulibaly et al. (2009), focused on shea butter extraction with a centrifuge machine (Figure 5) but the extraction efficiency was found to be barely higher than 30% on average. This was similar to the mean efficiency values with traditional methods.
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