Sesame Oil Separator

Abstract

Virgin sesame oil is of vegetable origin from sesame seed by cold pressing. It has
enriched of nutrients and is used for health treatments (to reduce blood pressure) and massage of
the body. Therefore, sesame oil is very expensive. Most of the method to separate sesame oil use
heat. That affects to the nutrient in the sesame oil. This paper presents the sesame oil separator
which uses the hydraulic press system to compress the sesame seeds. The compress process is not
produced heat. The operation of the machine is manual or automatic and easy to use. It can separate
sesame oil 49 cc. per 130 gram of sesame within 5 min. and 40 sec. It consumes electricity only 3.7
baht/liter of sesame oil. In addition, this sesame oil separator operates with the single-phase
electricity