The process was developed to produce the highest quality product with the greatest flexibility, so that it can be adapted to general refining of various types of oil or to particular specialty oils. Today, the process is working with soybean, sunflower, cottonseed, groundnut, rapeseed, canola, mustard, palm, coconut, fish oils, all types of hardened fats and specialty oils such as jojoba, avocado and Brazil nut.
The equipment for the process has been devised with particular regard to operation and surveillance and an appropriate balance of automation and manual control. Normally the process is automatically operated from a main panel. It is, therefore, quite possible for a single operator to supervise more than one process unit.
The Zenith process is based on three semi continuous processing steps, degumming, neutralizing and bleaching. These are interconnected to form an automatically controlled continuous process from crude to bleached oil. After bleaching, the oil is processed in the Compro deodorizer.
