Pressing Process


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Pressing Process

For many years, a hydraulic press served as the primary means of obtaining cottonseed oil. Horizontal steel plates pressed the kernels until oil flowed down into the troughs below. Before workers shipped it to a refinery, the crude oil was kept in tanks in order to allow some of the fine particles of meal to settle to the bottom.


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