Cold press capacity calculator
Size the press from the output you need — not the other way round. Enter your oil target or your seed volume, your expected yield range and your working pattern; the tool converts it into the capacity you actually have to buy, in kilograms of seed per hour, and matches it to the model range. No email wall: the result appears on this page.
Oil content × press efficiency, from your own test or your seed supplier. If you do not know it, send a sample — we measure it for you.
Result
Fill in the fields above — the result appears here.
How the calculation works
Nothing is hidden — the same formulas run in the calculator and in the worked examples below.
Effective hours per day = hours per shift × shifts × (1 − downtime) Seed per day (kg) = oil target per day ÷ net yield (yield entered as a low–high range) Required capacity kg/h = (seed per day ÷ effective hours) × 1.15 design margin Model suggestion = smallest model whose stated efficient rate covers the requirement
Every yield-derived output is a low–high range. A single "you will get X kg of oil" figure would be a promise nobody can keep across seed lots; a range is an honest estimate.
Worked examples
Hypothetical scenarios computed at build time with the formulas above — the yields are assumptions for illustration, not measurements. Replace them with your own figures in the calculator.
- Farm project. Target 20 kg oil/day, assumed net yield 25–35%, 1 × 8 h shifts, 10% downtime → effective 7.2 h/day, seed 57–80 kg/day, required 9.1–12.8 kg/h → 1 × CSP-15.
- Retail brand. Target 60 kg oil/day, assumed net yield 30–40%, 2 × 8 h shifts, 10% downtime → effective 14.4 h/day, seed 150–200 kg/day, required 12–16 kg/h → 1 × CSP-30.
- Wholesale line. Target 250 kg oil/day, assumed net yield 30–40%, 3 × 8 h shifts, 15% downtime → effective 20.4 h/day, seed 625–833 kg/day, required 35.2–47 kg/h → 2 × CSP-30.
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Data version: 2026-08 · Calc version: v1.0