Sunflower pricing starts with hull, wax, and container decisions

Project fork

First separate the four sunflower project types

Configuration conditions

Information that changes sunflower pricing

• Feed form: whole seed, partial dehull, prepared kernels, high-oleic, regular linoleic, or mixed lots.
• Route target: cold pressed light oil, hot pressed standard oil, crude bulk, dewaxed oil, refined oil, bottled retail oil.
• Output: kg or tons per shift, working hours, batch labor, and whether output must include filtration or only pressing.
• Post-press: settling time, filter type, cold-test target, dewaxing hold time, refining steps, tank volume, filling speed.
• By-products: hull outlet, cake sale/use, cake size, bagging, conveyor, silo, or manual collection.

Offer boundary

Name what is included and excluded

• Included: equipment, motors, control cabinet, basic wearing parts, drawings, packing, commissioning guidance, or spare parts package.
• Excluded unless requested: civil work, air compressor, boiler, chiller, piping installation, filling-room construction, labels, bottles, and local permits.
• If refining or filling is expected, say whether it is first-phase equipment or only a future connection point.

Pricing evidence

Real photos shorten sunflower pricing more than long descriptions

• Send seed, cleaned seed, hulls, kernels, crude oil, cake, tanks, filters, workshop entrance, and target package photos together.
• If an existing line will stay in service, include videos of huller discharge, press loading, oil transfer, filter operation, and cake pickup.

Project boundary

What to confirm before scoping Sunflower Project Data Before Pricing

Sunflower Project Data Before Pricing should not be quoted from an equipment name alone. Check feed lots, target oil, post-press handling, and packing rhythm in one scope before deciding which Sunflower Oil Press modules stay. Listed on the factory hot-press page — discuss 300/325 first.

When feed condition, moisture, impurities, batch weight, and product position are unclear, press tonnage and filter area become guesswork. Factory systems share 60 MPa and 2.2 kW motors; hot pure press is 30–40 min/barrel and cold pure press is ~2 h/barrel — cycle time matters more than brochure tonnage.

• Confirm whether feed is whole seed, kernels, pretreated material, or an existing semi-finished stream.
• Confirm whether the target is crude oil, filtered oil, bottled oil, drum ingredient oil, or a refining handoff.
• Hot cycle reference: pure press 30-40 min/barrel, ~1.5 h for 2 barrels with loading; cold pure press ~2 h/barrel, ~4.5 h for 2 barrels.
• Confirm batch rhythm, labor, changeover, retained samples, power (often 380V/50Hz/3ph), and site install conditions.

Factory model check

Match hot / cold models to factory hard data

Pin models to published factory specs before tonnage talk.

Hot 300/325: 300–325 ton, 60 MPa system, standard barrel Ø390×800 mm / max 100 kg, pure press 30–40 min/barrel, ~1.5 h for 2 barrels with loading, 2.2 kW motor. Cold 355/400/426/480/500: 370–630 ton, integrated frame, same 100 kg standard barrel, pure press ~2 h/barrel, ~4.5 h for 2 barrels with loading; optional Ø300 high-pressure barrel max 60 kg. Residual oil target ~≤5% (peanut hot often 6–8% measured).

• Standard barrel Ø390×800 mm, max ~100 kg crushed feed; optional Ø300 high-pressure barrel max ~60 kg.
• Cylinder material 27SiMn; cold frames are integrated molded steel; hot frames are typically H-type channel steel.
• Listed on the factory hot-press page — discuss 300/325 first.

Equipment check

Quote data needs to land in equipment interfaces

Once the route is clear, write the interfaces: how preparation feeds the press, how oil leaves the press, how filtration connects to tanks, and how packing receives finished oil.