Safflower Seed Decorticator Machine

A decorticator (from Latin: cortex, bark) is a machine for stripping the skin, bark, or rind off nuts, wood, plant stalks, grain, etc., in preparation for further processing.Safflower seed is a minor commercial crop today, with about 800,000 tonnes being produced each year. OSS is used mainly as cooking oil, in salad dressings, and for the production of margarine. OSS is flavorless and colorless, and nutritionally similar to sunflower oil.The invention is a method for extracting safflower seed oil by supercritical CO2, putting 0.3-0.5mm-sized crushed safflower seeds in the extracting cylinder of a supercritical extractor, and using supercritical CO2 as extractant to make extraction at 20-28MPa and 35-60DEG C; separating after extraction, where primary ...You can start picking safflower heads when the foliage browns and withers. Once the stalk and leaves are brittle, that's when to pick safflowers. Just cut off the heads carefully and deposit them in a container or jar. Then break the heads open and separate the seeds from the chaff