Sadoun installs the largest Olive Oil Decanter in Jordan
For over 80 years, the Sadoun family has been in the production of olive oil. For the harvest season 2006/2007 a grand olive oil processing plant has been installed at Sadoun Sons Olive Oil mill, Jordan.
Total processing capacity is between 7 to 10 tons of olives an hour through two Alfa Laval centrifugal decanters.
Sadoun manufactures their own hoppers, deleafer, washers, grinders, and malaxing systems. For this plant, Sadoun installed 4 sets of ( hoppers, washers, ginders), and 16 sets of malaxers. The malaxation tanks have a total capacity of 16 tons (36,000 lbs). Malaxer are used to knead the olive paste to break the emulsion and release the oil.
The Two decanters used are:
Alfa Laval NX X37
Alfa Lavel NX S28
Centifugal Separators
8 Alfa Laval separators are used to process the oil and olive water.
BTW, that is me beside the S28 decanter.