Luciana Pinto Teixeira

Facilities for Obtaining Soybean Oil in Small Plants

Soybeans, despite its low oil content (18% to 22%) is the second most important oilseed crop of the world, after palm oil. In 2010, it represented 27.3% of vegetable oil total produced worldwide, compared with 33.7% palm oil (pulp and almond), 15.6% rapeseed oil and 8.7% sunflower oil, together are account for 85.3% of vegetable oil total produced globally [12]. The high protein content (37% to 40%) of soybean is the main feedstock in the manufacture of feed for domestic animals. Almost 70% of meal protein that makes up the animal feed comes from soybean [7].