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Standard Operating Procedure

Title Refinery Vessel and line Page 01

cleaning before Crude

Coconut oil Processing
Issue No 01 Issue Date 01/09/2017 Responsible person
Revision No Revision Date

Objective :
i . To ensure cleaning and sanitation of tank, and pipelines, discharge valve,
transferring pump
ii. To ensure a hygienic production process.
iii. To ensure RBD coconut oil storages without mixing with other oils.

Scope :
All coconut oil processing tanks, lines and valves

Procedure :
1. Remove processed Palm oil/Olein/Palm kernel oil from the process lines
Plant Operator
as much as possible
2. Steam flushing the Bleacher tank, PLF and deodorizer.
Quality Assurance Executive
3. Use approx. 0.5 MT of cured coconut oil and flush the bleacher tank and
the PLF including lines. And the flushed coconut oil should be sent to
CPO tank.
4. Take 2 MT of crude coconut oil to the bleacher and bleach the oil using
bentonite (2%) and filter through the PLF and store in the BOT (Bleached
oil tank).
5. Take the bleached coconut oil to the deodorizer and process it. Then put
this refined oil to the RBD palm oil tank.
6. After QC approves (approval is given when the final out oil has color,
acid value and IV within the standards), refined coconut oil processing
will be continued and the RBD coconut oil will be stored in suitable tanks
(Tank 1,Tank 2 and Tank 6)

Prepared by Reviewed/Approved by
Production Manager Head of Quality/PD
Refinery Process line Cleaning record (prior to changing over to RBD Coconut oil form RBD Palm oil)

Bleaching
Date CPO Steam flushing Crude CNO Flushed Bleaching Plant QA
Bleacher flushing oil feed start Operator Sig.
emptied Start Stop Start Stop tank time Sig.
time (time) (time) (time) (time)

Deorderizing
Date CPO Deo. Steam flushing Bleached CNO Flushed Plant QA
emptied flushing (process) oil feed Operator approval
time Start Stop Start Stop tank Sig. for
(time) (time) (time) (time) continues
process

Prepared : AQM Reviewed and Approved : HQ & PD

Revision No: Date : 01.07.2017