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Oil is extracted from soybeans at modern plants by solvent washing of soybean flakes which have been preconditioned for optimal separation of oil from the soybean meal, using hexane as solvent.
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Modern processing plants extract soyabean oil by solvent liquid transfer. Soyabeans are cleaned, cracked, dehulled and conditioned into a thin flake before they enter the extractor. Extraction is by successive, countercurrent washes of hexane solvent.
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