A New Era of Olive Oil Profitability — Olive Oil Booster
Alfa Laval
This whitepaper examines how Alfa Laval’s Olive Oil Booster technology can improve olive oil extraction yield, oil quality and production efficiency. It explains how vacuum processing, mixing, heat transfer and centrifugal separation work together to increase the amount of high-quality oil extracted from olives while reducing water consumption and improving overall mill profitability.
Executive summary
The whitepaper introduces the Alfa Laval Olive Oil Booster, a processing system designed to increase oil extraction yield while improving the quality of the extracted oil.
The system combines vacuum technology, controlled-temperature processing and separation technologies to increase the amount of “free oil” released from olive paste before centrifugal separation.
According to the document, the technology can improve oil yield, increase the concentration of antioxidant phenols, preserve positive aroma compounds and reduce process-water requirements.
It also explains how the Booster works with decanter and vertical centrifuges to improve throughput, oil clarity and overall processing performance.
The paper concludes that improving extraction efficiency can simultaneously create economic and environmental benefits for olive oil producers, including higher yields, better-quality oil, reduced water use and improved profitability.