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Small Scale Vegetable Oil Extraction (NRI, 1995, 105 p.)

1. Acknowledgements
2. Preface
3. Chapter 1 - Oilseed composition
   • Extraction efficiency
   • Oils and fats - origin and definition
   • Triglycerides and fatty acids
4. Chapter 2 - Oilseed marketing
   • Introduction
   • The oilseed market system
   • Financial analysis
5. Chapter 3 - Oil extraction
   • Commercial oilseed processing
   • Small-scale oilseed processing
   • Decortication
   • Seed cleaning
   • Size reduction
   • Rolling
   • Conditioning
   • Oil extraction
   • Oil clarification methods
   • The importance of quality in small-scale processing
6. Chapter 4 - Processing of specific oilseeds
   • Coconuts
   • Groundnuts
   • Oil palm
   • Palm kernels
   • Rapeseed/mustard seed
   • Sesame
   • Shea nuts
   • Soya
   • Sunflower seed
   • Minor oilseeds (reference list)
7. Chapter 5 - Oilseed products and further processing
   • Oil for human consumption
   • Human food products prepared from oilseeds in Africa
   • Use of oil-cake in animal feeds
   • Soap manufacture
8. Appendix 1 - Currency conversion table
9. Appendix 2 - Sources of equipment
10. Appendix 3 - List of abbreviations and addresses
11. Appendix 4 - Additional references