Technologies
Title: | Household Oil Expeller |
Area: | Rural Technologies |
Focus Area: | Agricultural Technology |
Developing Agency: | Rural technology Action Group(RuTAG), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras |
Email: | rutag@iitm.ac.in, rutagpo@iitm.ac.in |
Associated NGO: | Collaborated NGO: Gandhigram Trust, Tamilnadu |
Start Year: | 2015 |
End Year: | 2016 |
Funding Agency: | Ministry of Panchayti Raj. |
Implementing Agency Link: | https://rutag.iitm.ac.in/rutag/ |
Brief Description
Description : | The oil expeller consists of a screw in a sealed chamber having inlet and outlet for seeds and oil cake respectively. Salient features of Oil Expeller: 30% yield of cold pressed oil. Seeds are crushed in single run. Groundnut, sesame and dry coconut have been tried. Special tapered screw designed for maximum compression. |