The provided illustration depicts the procedure of manufacturing commercial olive oil. Looking from an overall perspective, this process involves several stages, beginning with the harvesting oils and ending with storing oils in a tank. In fact, olives experience various physical processes to turn into olive oil.
To begin with, after harvesting and collecting olives from trees, they undergo a washing stage so that their leaves are eliminated. Then, they are crushed to produce olive paste. At the following stages, once olive paste is fed into Malaxer which is operated below 27 degrees celsius, the output is transferred into a centrifuge.
Regarding the centrifugal process, it creates two products: the first and main one is virgin oils, and the second one is a by-product called pomace. This product can be transported to refineries to be treated more and converted into beneficial materials. Virgin oils can experience two distinguished processes to turn into olive oil: decantation, which leads to the removal of solids and water, and seperation, which result in eliminating waste water. Ultimately, the manufactured olive oil is stored in a tank.