Horizontal decanter centrifuge used to separate the solids from the liquids in the mixed olive paste. It has three outlets, one for oil, one for the combined vegetable water and added process water and the third for solids (three-phase pomace).

Horizontal decanter centrifuge used to separate the solids from the liquids in the mixed olive paste. It has two outlets, one for oil and the other for the combined vegetable water and solids (two-phase pomace).

Tank with a bottom lying at a slant of approximately 5%.

Tank with a cone-shaped design to increase the amount of dregs collecting at the bottom and so make it easier to remove them.

Set of two tanks connected by a siphon, placed at the outlet of the oil collecting unit.

See decanter.

Natural separation by gravity based on the difference in the density of the oil and dregs.

Gravity-based separation performed in a battery of settling tanks with a view to the separation of the dregs in a specific batch of oil.